docx-mcp

Give your AI coding agent the ability to create, read, and edit Word documents. Every edit appears as a tracked change in Microsoft Word — red strikethrough for deletions, green underline for insertions, comments in the sidebar — so your colleagues see exactly what changed and why.

Who This Is For

Professionals who produce Word deliverables and want their AI agent to handle the document work directly:

• Legal — contract review with tracked redlines, batch clause replacement across templates, comment annotations explaining each change, footnote management
• Security & Penetration Testing — generate pentest reports from markdown findings, merge appendices from multiple engagements, add executive-summary comments, remove DRAFT watermarks before delivery
• Consulting — build proposals and SOWs from templates, convert meeting notes to formatted deliverables, bulk-update payment terms across document sets
• Compliance & Audit — structural validation of document integrity, cross-reference checking, heading-level audits, protection enforcement

What You Can Ask Your Agent To Do

Review a contract:

"Open contract.docx, find every instance of 'Net 30', change it to 'Net 60', and add a comment on each explaining it was updated per Amendment 3. Save as contract_revised.docx."

Generate a report from markdown:

"Convert my pentest-findings.md to a Word document using the client's report template. Add footnotes for each CVE reference."

Batch-edit a template library:

"Open the MSA template, replace 'ACME Corp' with 'GlobalTech Inc' everywhere, update the effective date in the header, and set document protection to track-changes-only."

Audit a document before sending:

"Open the final deliverable, run a structural audit, check for any DRAFT or TODO markers, validate all footnote cross-references, and remove any watermarks."

Your agent handles the entire workflow — opening the file, navigating the structure, making precise edits with full revision history, validating integrity, and saving — while you focus on the substance.

Installation

Claude Code (recommended):

claude mcp add docx-mcp -- uvx docx-mcp-server

That's it. A companion skill auto-installs the first time the server starts, teaching Claude the document editing workflow, OOXML pitfalls, and audit checklist. It auto-updates on every upgrade.

Other platforms and installation methods

Claude Desktop:

Add to your MCP settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docx-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["docx-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code:

Add to your MCP configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "docx-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["docx-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

OpenClaw:

mcpServers:
  docx-mcp:
    command: uvx
    args:
      - docx-mcp-server

With pip:

pip install docx-mcp-server

Capabilities

Capability	What your agent can do
Create documents	Start blank, from a .dotx template, or from markdown — headings, tables, lists, images, footnotes, code blocks, smart typography
Track changes	Insert and delete text with proper revision marks that show up in Word's review pane
Comments	Add comments anchored to specific paragraphs, reply to comment threads
Find and replace	Search by text or regex across body, footnotes, and comments — then make targeted edits
Tables	Create tables, modify cells, add or delete rows — all with revision tracking
Footnotes & endnotes	Add, list, and validate cross-references
Formatting	Bold, italic, underline, color — with revision tracking so formatting changes are visible
Headers & footers	Read and edit header/footer content with tracked changes
Images	List embedded images, insert new ones with specified dimensions
Sections & layout	Page breaks, section breaks, page size, orientation, margins
Cross-references	Internal hyperlinks between paragraphs with bookmarks
Document merge	Combine content from multiple DOCX files
Protection	Lock documents for tracked-changes-only, read-only, or comments-only with passwords
Structural audit	Validate footnotes, headings, bookmarks, images, and internal consistency before delivery
Watermark removal	Detect and strip DRAFT watermarks from headers

Example: Contract Review with Redlines

1. open_document("services-agreement.docx")
2. get_headings()                              → see document structure
3. search_text("30 days")                      → find the payment clause
4. delete_text(para_id, "30 days")             → tracked deletion  (red strikethrough)
5. insert_text(para_id, "60 days")             → tracked insertion (green underline)
6. add_comment(para_id, "Extended per client request — see Amendment 3")
7. audit_document()                            → verify structural integrity
8. save_document("services-agreement_redlined.docx")

Open the output in Word and you see exactly what a human reviewer would produce — revision marks, comments in the margin, clean document structure.

Example: Pentest Report from Markdown

1. create_from_markdown("pentest-report.docx",
       md_path="findings.md",
       template_path="client-template.dotx")
2. audit_document()                            → verify integrity
3. save_document()                             → ready for delivery

Your markdown findings — headings, tables of affected hosts, code blocks with proof-of-concept output, severity ratings — become a formatted Word document matching the client's template. Smart typography is applied automatically (curly quotes, em dashes, proper ellipses).

How It Works

A .docx file is a ZIP archive of XML files. This server unpacks the archive, edits the XML directly, and repacks it. This is what gives it the ability to produce real tracked changes, comments, and footnotes — things that higher-level document libraries can't do.

Every edit is validated against the OOXML specification before saving, catching issues like orphaned footnotes, duplicate internal IDs, and broken cross-references that would otherwise cause Word to "repair" (and silently rewrite) your document.

Full tool inventory (45 tools)

Document Lifecycle

Tool	Description
open_document	Open a .docx file for reading and editing
create_document	Create a new blank .docx (or from a .dotx template)
create_from_markdown	Create a .docx from GitHub-Flavored Markdown
close_document	Close the current document and clean up
get_document_info	Get overview stats (paragraphs, headings, footnotes, comments)
save_document	Save changes back to .docx (can overwrite or save to new path)

Reading

Tool	Description
get_headings	Get heading structure with levels and text
search_text	Search across body, footnotes, and comments (text or regex)
get_paragraph	Get full text and style of a paragraph

Track Changes

Tool	Description
insert_text	Insert text with tracked-change markup
delete_text	Mark text as deleted with tracked-change markup
accept_changes	Accept tracked changes (all or by author)
reject_changes	Reject tracked changes (all or by author)
set_formatting	Apply bold/italic/underline/color with tracked-change markup

Tables

Tool	Description
get_tables	Get all tables with row/column counts and cell content
add_table	Insert a new table after a paragraph
modify_cell	Modify a table cell with tracked changes
add_table_row	Add a row to a table
delete_table_row	Delete a table row with tracked changes

Lists

Tool	Description
add_list	Apply bullet or numbered list formatting to paragraphs

Comments

Tool	Description
get_comments	List all comments with ID, author, date, and text
add_comment	Add a comment anchored to a paragraph
reply_to_comment	Reply to an existing comment (threaded)

Footnotes & Endnotes

Tool	Description
get_footnotes	List all footnotes with ID and text
add_footnote	Add a footnote with superscript reference
validate_footnotes	Validate footnote cross-references
get_endnotes	List all endnotes with ID and text
add_endnote	Add an endnote with superscript reference
validate_endnotes	Validate endnote cross-references

Headers, Footers & Styles

Tool	Description
get_headers_footers	Get all headers and footers with text content
edit_header_footer	Edit header/footer text with tracked changes
get_styles	Get all defined styles

Properties & Images

Tool	Description
get_properties	Get core document properties (title, creator, dates)
set_properties	Set core document properties
get_images	Get all embedded images with dimensions
insert_image	Insert an image after a paragraph

Sections & Cross-References

Tool	Description
add_page_break	Insert a page break after a paragraph
add_section_break	Add a section break (nextPage, continuous, evenPage, oddPage)
set_section_properties	Set page size, orientation, and margins
add_cross_reference	Add a cross-reference link between paragraphs

Protection & Merge

Tool	Description
set_document_protection	Set document protection with optional password
merge_documents	Merge content from another DOCX

Validation & Audit

Tool	Description
validate_paraids	Check internal ID uniqueness across all document parts
remove_watermark	Remove VML watermarks from document headers
audit_document	Comprehensive structural audit

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows

License

MIT