Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by felooboolooomba on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:44PM (#48824324)

I know that the office suite format is a relic which is hard to get rid of. But I can't help feeling that in these new AI era, that we should focus on leaving that proprietary format behind.

It is one of the biggest facilitator of vendor lock in in the history of computing.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by kirillklimuk on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:47PM (#48825565)

Realistically... everyone's using it from students, to lawyers, to academics, and so on and so forth.

And given that LibreOffice and Google Docs are pretty good nowadays and OOXML is an open standard now post the monopoly rulings of the 90s, it's not quite as bad as it used to be.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by FailMore on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:05PM (#48825214)

Hey, I'm building something a bit like that - please checkout https://smalldocs.org if you have time.

I say it’s as if “Claude Code & Microsoft Office had a baby...”

Code available: https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs

Discord: https://discord.gg/txjATTsDaq

Sample document: https://smalldocs.org/blogs/what-is-a-smalldoc

Invoked via Claude Code by saying stuff like: “sdoc me the plan for this feature”, or “dig into our logs and sdoc me a report on our latency"

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