sbroenne/mcp-server-excel
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1Excel McpExcel MCP Server Skill documents how to drive rich Windows Excel automation through Model Context Protocol. Solo builders and small teams use it when an AI assistant must create, inspect, modify, format, or analyze xlsx/xlsm workbooks—including Power Query, DAX, PivotTables, Tables, charts, slicers, connections, and VBA—without manual GUI repetition. The skill orients agents around a repeatable open-write-structure-save checklist, calculation-mode batching for performance, and Windows-specific path and locking preconditions. It is integration documentation for an MCP server, not a cross-platform library; Microsoft Excel 2016+ on Windows is mandatory. Prism lists it for builders wiring finance dashboards, ops reports, or data handoffs where Excel remains the system of record and MCP is the control plane.1.1kinstalls2Excel CliExcel CLI is an agent skill for token-efficient, scriptable Microsoft Excel automation on Windows through excelcli commands. Solo builders and ops-minded indies use it when workbooks must be created or updated unattended—in CI/CD, scheduled PowerShell jobs, or bulk formatting—without driving the GUI. The skill enforces a session-first workflow, documents how to write JSON 2D row data reliably, and routes large command sequences through batch JSON so one process handles ten or more steps. Coverage spans sheets, ranges, tables, charts, DAX, Power Query, pivot tables, VBA, data models, and screenshots. It does not run on macOS or Linux because it relies on COM interop. Install excelcli on PATH or use the GitHub Copilot excel-cli plugin path that fetches the Windows runtime on first use.702installs