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Across five models and 61 tasks, Paper packages plus guidance passed 92.5% of trials, versus 80.7% for upstream packages without skills and 69.5% with Anthropic's comparable Office skills. Agents also wrote code to edit Office file internals directly in just 1.6% of Paper runs, compared with 78.7% without skills and 50.5% with Anthropic skills. We note that basic software, in addition to prompt, skills, and tools, remains an important lever for harness optimization.
- ▪Across five models and 61 tasks, Paper packages plus guidance passed 92.5% of trials, versus 80.7% for upstream packages without skills and 69.5% with Anthropic's comparable Office skills.
- ▪Agents also wrote code to edit Office file internals directly in just 1.6% of Paper runs, compared with 78.7% without skills and 50.5% with Anthropic skills.
- ▪We note that basic software, in addition to prompt, skills, and tools, remains an important lever for harness optimization.
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| Original publisher | Paper Instruments |
| Canonical URL | https://www.paperinstruments.com/blog/introducing-paper-office |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:19:47 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T11:10:26.096Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T11:10:26.096Z |
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← ResearchIntroducing Paper OfficeSep 23, 2026 · Daanish Khazi, Gavin Bains, Joey Besgenpaper-docxpaper-pptxpaper-xlsx Today, we release Paper Office, a suite of Python packages that allow agents to manipulate Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files with added safety, correctness and breadth, building on legacy open source packages: python-docx, python-pptx and OpenPyxl. Across five models and 61 tasks, Paper packages plus guidance passed 92.5% of trials, versus 80.7% for upstream packages without skills and 69.5% with Anthropic's comparable Office skills. Agents also wrote code to edit Office file internals directly in just 1.6% of Paper runs, compared with 78.7% without skills and 50.5% with Anthropic skills.
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