It looks like a legit attempt. Wow. This is insanely innovative.

My thesis is that an intermediate layer would eventually end up being equivalent to the docx format, so I've decided not to have any intermediate representation.

We convert docx to html and send it AI. When AI rewrites the HTML and it back, we diff the rewritten HTML against the docx's document.xml and make the modification. This is a simplistic explanation of it. There are a bunch of validations and processing going on.

Regarding the tracked changes/comments, we simply invent new HTML tags for those things e.g. , , and etc.

I'd like to share our DOCX plugin for Cowork and Codex.

It uses 2-5x fewer tokens compared to the traditional docx skill because it doesn't write any code nor execute python/node script. It is also much more reliable.

Our DOCX plugin converts docx<->html bidirectionally. This means AI only operates on HTML. AI is excellent and very efficient when it comes to HTML.

Most libraries (if not all) support docx->html, but none supports html->docx. This is what is novel about our approach.

Here's the demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UNlUJYwkNX3NiANDkLLb3UoRSms...

We've been using it in-house for redlining legal documents, and we love it. If you redline docx files, please give it a try: https://github.com/LegalRabbit-AI/legalrabbit-docx-claude-pl...

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The main target users are lawyers who redlines and drafts legal documents, and they almost always use docx.

It can be used together with Claude For Legal; The combination is pretty magical.

Here's the plugin: https://github.com/LegalRabbit-AI/legalrabbit-docx-claude-pl...

If you have external users, then you have to use MCP, which comes with how to use each endpoint and etc. MCP is what their current apps e.g. Cowork, Cursor support out-of-the-box.

In that sense, MCP is very much not dead

Instead of making something an attribute, they make it a child element...

Not just for NPM but for Intellij plugin, VSCode extension, and etc.

If Node has officially pre-vetted libraries, that would be really awesome.

To clarify this: we don't intend to open-source it. There's no source code.

The only reason we need a github repo is because Claude Code/Cowork requires a plugin to be a github repo, which contains the plugin configuration.

Moreover, our users are lawyers. They don't have Node/Python runtime i.e. unable to run code. They need a single-file executable.

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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: anything works.

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taninnanakorn

I'm an ex-Stripe engineer with extensive knowledge in technical accounting, revenue recognition, and financial analytics.

I'm looking for a consulting gig where I can help your company integrate with Stripe from end-to-end (from payment to reporting to closing the book), so you can get accurate financial reports, and your accountant/controller can be happy.

Please contact me on LinkedIn if you are interested.

So, I've built a scraper that scrapes posts from Facebook Groups and made those posts filterable/sortable.

Now I'm looking to launch the same thing for US cities. Their Facebook Groups have tons of posts around subleasing/looking for accommodations.

If you are interested, here's the site for Bangkok: https://bangkokprop.com

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