Help us improve
Share bugs, ideas, or general feedback.
From pages-cli
Control Apple Pages documents from Claude. Create, edit, format, review, and export Pages documents programmatically. Trigger: "/pages", "pages document", "create pages document", "write letter in pages", "report in pages", "export pages", "open pages file", "format document in pages", "pages erstellen", "pages dokument", "brief schreiben in pages". Use this skill when the user wants to create, edit, format, review, or export a Pages document. Supports 100+ templates, text styling, tables, images, export to PDF/Word/EPUB/text.
npx claudepluginhub marcelrgberger/pages-cli --plugin pages-cliHow this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/pages-cli:pagesThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Control Apple Pages from Claude — create, edit, format, review, and export documents.
Creates, reads, edits, and analyzes .docx files using docx-js for new documents, pandoc for text extraction, Python scripts for XML unpacking/validation/changes, and LibreOffice for conversions.
Creates, reads, edits, and analyzes .docx files using docx-js for generation, pandoc/Python for extraction, XML editing, tracked changes, and LibreOffice conversions.
Creates, reads, edits, and analyzes .docx files using docx-js for new documents, Python scripts for XML manipulation/tracked changes/validation, pandoc for extraction, and LibreOffice conversions.
Share bugs, ideas, or general feedback.
Control Apple Pages from Claude — create, edit, format, review, and export documents.
The pages-cli command must be installed. If not available, install it automatically:
which pages-cli || (cd ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agent-harness && python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e . && echo "pages-cli installed")
If a venv already exists, activate it:
test -f ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agent-harness/.venv/bin/activate && source ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agent-harness/.venv/bin/activate
System requirements:
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
/pages new | Create a new blank document |
/pages new <template> | Create document from template |
/pages open <path> | Open an existing document |
/pages info | Show document info |
/pages close | Close document |
/pages export pdf <path> | Export as PDF |
/pages export word <path> | Export as Word |
/pages templates | List available templates |
/pages status | Show session status |
Document management:
pages-cli --json document new
pages-cli --json document new --template "Professional Report"
pages-cli --json document open "/path/to/document.pages"
pages-cli --json document info
pages-cli --json document list
pages-cli document save
pages-cli document save --path "/path/to/save.pages"
pages-cli document close
pages-cli document close --no-save
Text:
pages-cli text add "New text"
pages-cli text set "Replace entire body text"
pages-cli --json text get
pages-cli text set-font --name "Helvetica Neue" --size 14
pages-cli text set-font --name "Helvetica Neue" --size 24 --paragraph 1
pages-cli text set-color --r 0 --g 0 --b 65535 --paragraph 1
pages-cli --json text word-count
Tables:
pages-cli table add --rows 5 --cols 3 --name "Data"
pages-cli table set-cell "Data" 1 1 "Column A"
pages-cli --json table get-cell "Data" 1 1
pages-cli --json table list
pages-cli table merge "Data" "A1:B1"
pages-cli table sort "Data" --column 1
Media:
pages-cli media add-image "/path/to/image.png" --x 100 --y 200
pages-cli media add-shape --type rectangle --w 200 --h 100 --text "Box"
pages-cli --json media list
Export:
pages-cli export pdf ~/Desktop/document.pdf
pages-cli export word ~/Desktop/document.docx
pages-cli export epub ~/Desktop/book.epub --title "Title" --author "Author"
pages-cli export text ~/Desktop/document.txt
pages-cli export rtf ~/Desktop/document.rtf
pages-cli --json export formats
Templates & session:
pages-cli --json template list
pages-cli --json session status
Translate user instructions into CLI commands:
| User says | CLI command |
|---|---|
| "Write a title" | text add "Title" + text set-font --size 24 --paragraph N |
| "Make the text bigger" | text set-font --size 16 |
| "Add a table" | table add --rows N --cols N |
| "Insert this image" | media add-image "path" |
| "Export as PDF" | export pdf ~/Desktop/output.pdf |
| "How many words?" | --json text word-count |
| "Show me the text" | --json text get |
| "Review the document" | --json text get → analyze + suggest improvements |
Pages uses RGB values from 0-65535 (not 0-255):
--r 0 --g 0 --b 0--r 65535 --g 0 --b 0--r 0 --g 0 --b 65535--r 0 --g 65535 --b 0Conversion: Pages value = round((RGB_0_255 / 255) * 65535)
Full list: pages-cli --json template list
--json for query commands (info, list, get, status, word-count)source ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agent-harness/.venv/bin/activate