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They added a whole set of skills and python scripts for interacting with office files using libreoffice headless, it's not writing the XML files directly

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Right it's mostly python scripts instead of generating the entire XML, but they do make changes to the XML directly to get around python-pptx limitations: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/pptx/S...

Ironically, the Claude PowerPoint add-in actually does a lot of direct XML because the Office.js library can't even do charts

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