Launching our offline Claude Cowork/Codex Plugin for interacting with DOCX files
Hey lawyer friends,
We are from LegalRabbit.ai. We provide legal services to startups. We’ve tried a few AI tools and discovered that Cowork + practice/document-specific Skills work pretty well. The missing component was getting Cowork to modify a DOCX file directly.
We were using the default DOCX skill for a while. It didn’t work reliably. For something more complex than a simple doc with a couple of pages, it failed to redline, generate invalid docx with odd styles, and/or consumed a lot of tokens.
So, we’ve developed the Claude Cowork DOCX plugin that enables your Cowork to redline and add comments to DOCX files directly. This works well across all models, and not just Opus.
We’ve eventually decided to develop a more native DOCX plugin where it simplifies the format of DOCX for AI by 100X and transfers the deterministic workloads from AI to the plugin (e.g. setting up complex styles).
It has been working well for us and several other lawyer friends.
In the video demo, we asked Cowork to review an NDA. It ends at Cowork using our plugin to produce a redline. In our usual workflow, we will proceed to open the docx file and give our own comments. Then, we will ask Cowork to address our comments and prepare the final version with customer-facing comments.
The plugin enables Cowork to manipulate DOCX files and works completely offline. Your data/content isn’t sent out anywhere. You bring your own playbooks. You can also use it together with the Claude Legal plugin.
We are looking for more private beta users to work with. We support both Claude Cowork and Codex.
If you are interested, please leave a comment, and we’ll send you a DM.
FY: the plugin is here: https://github.com/LegalRabbit-AI/legalrabbit-docx-claude-plugin – while you can try it out, the plugin is still nascent. We’d love for you to work with us more closely. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.