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Summary

Add tools for extracting and converting common office and personal file formats into structured, queryable text (markdown, JSON, tables).

What Changed

  • Created shared ZIP/XML extraction utility ()
  • Implemented DOCX → markdown conversion (headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, inline formatting)
  • Implemented PPTX → markdown conversion (slide titles, bullets, speaker notes)
  • Implemented XLSX → markdown tables and XLSX → JSON conversion
  • Implemented PDF text extraction → markdown
  • Registered all tools in with proper permissions and classifications

Capabilities

New Capabilities

  • : ZIP archive decompression and XML content retrieval
  • : DOCX to markdown conversion
  • : PPTX to markdown conversion
  • : XLSX to markdown tables and JSON conversion
  • : PDF text extraction to markdown

Impact

  • New files: directory with utility and parser modules
  • Modified: (tool registration, permissions, classifications)
  • New dependencies: for PDF text extraction
  • Tests: Unit tests in mirroring source structure

OpenSpec

This change follows the OpenSpec-driven development workflow:

  • Proposal:
  • Design:
  • Specs:
  • Tasks:

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Fixes #767

@avoidwork avoidwork self-assigned this Aug 12, 2026
- Add shared ZIP/XML extraction utility (adm-zip)
- Implement DOCX → markdown parser (headings, lists, tables, inline formatting)
- Implement PPTX → markdown parser (slide titles, bullets, speaker notes)
- Implement XLSX → markdown tables and XLSX → JSON converter
- Implement PDF → markdown text extraction (pdf-parse)
- Register all tools in src/tools/index.js with permissions and classifications
- Add comprehensive unit tests for all modules
- Add pdf-parse and xml2js dependencies
- Move OpenSpec change to archive/2026-08-12-file-format-extraction-tools/
- Apply spec deltas to openspec/specs/ (5 new capabilities)
- 9 spec lines added
- Remove unused buffer variables (dead code)
- Remove unused imports (extractZipXml, ZipExtractionError, getExtension)
- Merge duplicate imports in docxParser.js
- Fix unused catch parameter in zipExtractor.js
- Fix redundant const comparison in xlsxParser.js
- Prefix unused variables with _ (listType, isListItem)
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PR Audit: file-format-extraction-tools

Scope: Implementation audit against OpenSpec design, specs, and tasks.


✅ Completed

  • All 21 tasks from tasks.md are implemented (code-wise)
  • 4 new tools registered in src/tools/index.js with correct permissions and classifications
  • 3 new dependencies added: adm-zip, pdf-parse, xml2js
  • Shared ZIP/XML extraction utility (zipExtractor.js) with ZipExtractionError class
  • Format validation utility (formatValidator.js) with extension whitelist
  • Unit tests created for all 6 modules (6 files, ~290 lines)
  • Lint and formatting pass clean

🔴 Bugs (must fix before merge)

1. docxParser.jsisListItem reference error
Line 37 calls isListItem(para) but the function was renamed to _isListItem (line 130). This will throw a ReferenceError at runtime.

2. docxParser.jslistType vs _listType mismatch
Line 21 declares let _listType = null; but line 50 assigns listType = "ul";. Same variable, different name.

3. pdfParser.js — Incorrect pdf-parse API usage
The code treats pdf-parse as a class with getText() and destroy() methods. The actual pdf-parse API is a simple function: await pdfParse(buffer). This will crash at runtime.


🟡 Spec Gaps (should address)

4. docx-extraction: inline formatting not implemented
Spec requires bold, italic, code. Implementation handles headings, paragraphs, lists, tables — but strips all run-level formatting.

5. xlsx-extraction: merged cells not handled
Spec requires handling w:merge/vMerge. No merged cell logic in xlsxParser.js.

6. pptx-extraction: slides without titles
Spec requires numbered slide separator when no title. The titleFound variable is tracked but never acted upon — all slides get ---.

7. file-extraction: password-protected ZIP not distinguished
Spec requires password-specific error. extractZipXml throws generic ZipExtractionError with reason "extraction-failed".

8. file-extraction: getZipFileNames swallows errors
Spec requires descriptive errors for corrupted ZIPs, but returns [] silently.

9. pdf-extraction: empty PDF returns error, not empty string
Spec requires empty string for empty/minimal PDFs. pdfToMarkdown throws PdfExtractionError for empty text.


🟢 Minor / Observations

10. Tests cover only error paths
All tests verify error cases. No happy-path tests with mock XML content.

11. No fixture files
Task 7.4 ("Create sample fixture files for manual testing") not completed.

12. Silent catch blocks
Several parsers use catch {} blocks. Per AGENTS.md rule 1.1, empty/silent catch blocks are forbidden.

13. pdf.jsbuffer correctly used
Unlike docx/pptx/xlsx where buffer was dead code, pdf.js correctly passes buffer to pdfToMarkdown(buffer).


Summary

Category Count
Bugs (must fix) 3
Spec gaps 6
Minor observations 3

The core architecture is solid — shared ZIP extraction, format validation, and tool registration are well-structured. The three bugs (especially the pdf-parse API misuse and the isListItem reference error) will cause runtime failures and should be fixed before merge.

Critical bugs:
- Fix isListItem() reference error in docxParser.js (was _isListItem)
- Fix listType/_listType variable mismatch in docxParser.js
- Fix pdf-parse API usage (was class, is a function)

Spec gaps:
- Add inline formatting (bold, italic, code) to docx parser
- Handle merged cells in xlsx parser
- Numbered slide separator for pptx slides without titles
- Password-protected ZIP detection in getZipFileNames
- Empty PDF returns empty string, not error

Minor:
- Replace silent catch blocks with named parameters (_err)
- Update tool_index test for new file extraction tools (8→12 tools)
- Remove unused PDFParse import from pdfParser.js
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