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name: office\ndescription: \"Use whenever a Word document (.docx), spreadsheet (.xlsx), slide deck (.pptx) or PDF in the workspace is to be written, filled in, edited or commented on and the office_edit tool is available: the user watches your edits appear live in the file pane, under your name, and may edit beside you. Covers drafting a document section by section, filling and formatting sheets, building slides in the Claude Slides format, and filling, redacting or annotating a PDF. Use the docx, xlsx and pptx skills only when the office tools are not available.\"\nrequires_tools: [office_edit]

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Working on documents live with the user

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The document is open in the user's file pane, or opens there once your first edit to it has run (once per document:\na user who closes it is not pulled back). Every office_edit call appears whole, under your name, while the user\nwatches and may edit the same document. Work like a colleague in a shared document, not like a program writing a file.

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Where the document is

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The workflow

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  1. Read first. office_read before any edit, and again whenever an edit is refused: its outline gives what the\nops target (block ids and hashes, sheets and ranges, slide ids and hashes, pages and fields).
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  2. One piece of work per call: a section, a block of cells, a slide or two, a set of fields. Between calls, say\none short line in the chat (\"Building the pricing slide.\").
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  3. Change only what was asked.
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  4. When an edit is refused, nothing of the call applied. The result says why, and shows what you targeted as it\nis now: someone edited it, and their edit wins. Read again and work from what is there; never put your old version\nback over theirs. A user editing the very cells or slide you want: wait, or ask them.
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  5. Never touch an open document any other way. No write_file, patch, terminal, python libraries or the docx,\nxlsx, pptx or pdf skills on it: the editor is its only writer.
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  6. Finish with one line in the chat saying what you did and what the user can do next. The work belongs in the\ndocument, not in the chat.
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Each kind of document

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When a comment calls you

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A message that starts [Comment on <file>] is a person who mentioned you in a comment in that document: the words in\n« » are theirs, quoted from it. \"On it, I'll reply here when done.\" is already posted in the thread, and the note with\nthe message says which thread it is, or, in a PDF, how to find it.

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  1. Read the document with office_read, and the thread in its outline: the mention may be a reply, with the question\nearlier in the thread.
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  2. Do what it asks with office_edit, as for any request.
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  3. Reply in the thread with only the result, in one or two sentences: \"Fixed: Q1 North is 120, from the March\nexport.\" Never your reasoning, the steps or the conversation: those go in the chat. A reply over 400 characters is\nrefused. If you cannot do it, say why in one sentence, and leave the thread open.
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  4. Resolve the thread last, in the same call as the reply or after it: a resolve can close the person's open reply\nbox.
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  5. Finish with one line in the chat, as after any request.
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Writing rules

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