quillwork
Lossless, AI-friendly editing of Word (.docx) documents, for Python 3.12 and newer.
An agent reads a compact text view of the document, with a short anchor on every paragraph, table row and comment. It sends small JSON edits against those anchors. Quillwork writes each edit into the original file as a real Word tracked change and leaves every byte it did not need to touch exactly as it was. Letterheads, numbering, styles, fields and existing tracked changes survive, and a person reviews the agent's work in Word's Review pane.
from pathlib import Path
import quillwork
doc = quillwork.Document.open(Path("contract.docx").read_bytes())
doc.set_agent("AI")
print(doc.read()) # [b103 #1.] The Consultant provides advice ... for 16 hours per week.
doc.apply({
"base_version": doc.version,
"ops": [{"op": "replace_text", "anchor": "b103", "find": "16 hours", "replace": "20 hours"}],
})
Path("contract.edited.docx").write_bytes(doc.save())
doc.help() lists every op. This is an alpha (0.0.x): the op language and the sidecar format
may change between releases.
- Source, docs and benchmarks: https://github.com/gardan4/quillwork
- Binding reference: https://github.com/gardan4/quillwork/blob/main/docs/BINDING.md
- MCP server and agent tools: the
quillwork-serverpackage
Licensed under Apache-2.0.
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