carbone skill

Carbone agent plugin

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The Carbone agent plugin: the Carbone skill and MCP server for any AI agent that supports skills or remote MCP servers, including Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Devin and Kiro. Install it once in your AI assistant to design document templates and generate PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from your data in the same conversation.

What it does

• The Carbone MCP server (https://mcp.carbone.io) generates documents from your templates and data, converts files between formats, and manages your Carbone template library. It is hosted by Carbone, so there is nothing to run locally. Documentation: carbone.io/documentation/developer/ai/mcp.html.
• The Carbone skill (skills/carbone/) teaches the assistant the Carbone templating syntax, so it can write, check and fix templates, or add Carbone tags to the DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files it generates. It follows the open Agent Skills standard and works without the server.

What the skill covers

• Tag syntax: {d.}, {c.}, aliases, i18n, in-template options
• Formatters: date, number, string, currency, and chaining
• Conditions: showBegin/showEnd, hideBegin/hideEnd, ternary expressions
• Loops: arrays, nested loops, aggregation, drop-row patterns
• :set patterns for computed and conditional values
• HTML templates: CSS injection, charts, headers/footers, PDF options
• Markdown templates: loops in tables, converting to DOCX/PDF
• Embedding Carbone tags into AI-generated DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files
• Best practices and a validation checklist
• Template formats: XML HTML ODT ODS ODP DOCX XLSX PPTX ODG SVG MD IDML, and PDF form templates
• Export formats: PDF DOCX XLSX PPTX ODT ODS ODP HTML CSV TXT JPG PNG GIF SVG WEBP EPUB MD RTF (160+ conversions)

Install

| Assistant | Install | |---|---| | Claude (claude.ai, Desktop, Cowork) | Customize, Plugins, Add marketplace carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin | | Claude Code | /plugin marketplace add carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin, then /plugin install carbone@carbone | | ChatGPT | Custom MCP server https://mcp.carbone.io, and upload carbone.skill | | Codex | codex plugin marketplace add carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin, then codex plugin add carbone@carbone | | Cursor | Team marketplace from this repository, or clone it to ~/.cursor/plugins/local/carbone | | VS Code, GitHub Copilot | copilot plugin install carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin, or Chat: Install Plugin From Source | | Gemini CLI | gemini extensions install https://github.com/carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin | | Antigravity | agy plugin install https://github.com/carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin | | Devin | devin plugins install carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin | | Kiro | Powers, Add Custom Power, Import power from GitHub with this repository URL | | Mistral Vibe, others | Add the MCP server https://mcp.carbone.io as a custom connector | | Skill only | npx skills add carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin, or upload carbone.skill |

The skill file is attached to every release: [carbone.skill](https://github.com/carboneio/carbone-agent-plugin/releases/latest/download/carbone.skill).

Let your assistant set it up

In an assistant that can run commands or edit its own settings, paste this prompt:

Add the Carbone MCP server to this assistant.
Server URL: https://mcp.carbone.io (remote MCP server, Streamable HTTP)
Setup instructions: https://carbone.io/documentation/developer/ai/mcp.md
Then start the sign-in so I can connect my Carbone account.

Claude (claude.ai, Desktop, Cowork)