4 releases
Uses new Rust 2024
| 0.1.6 | Apr 14, 2026 |
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| 0.1.5 | Apr 14, 2026 |
| 0.1.2 | Apr 13, 2026 |
| 0.1.0 | Apr 13, 2026 |
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agent-xlsx
A small CLI for reading and editing .xlsx files, designed for agents. JSON
in, JSON out; A1 range notation everywhere; structured JSON errors on stderr.
📖 Full usage docs live in
skills/agent-xlsx/SKILL.md. That file is the skill definition consumed bynpx skills addand by Claude agents; it doubles as the human-readable reference.
Install
# Latest release, to a dir on PATH
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carderne/agent-xlsx/main/install.sh \
| bash -s -- ~/.local/bin
Supported targets: Apple Silicon macOS, x86_64 Linux, x86_64 Windows.
As a Claude skill
npx skills add carderne/agent-xlsx
As a pi package
pi install npm:agent-xlsx
Quick taste
agent-xlsx create book.xlsx
agent-xlsx edit book.xlsx A1:C1 '["name","age","city"]'
agent-xlsx edit book.xlsx A2:C3 '[["Alice",30,"Berlin"],["Bob",42,"Paris"]]'
agent-xlsx read book.xlsx A1:C3
# [["name","age","city"],["Alice",30.0,"Berlin"],["Bob",42.0,"Paris"]]
Evals
Currently... it's mostly worse than just Python. Did Anthropic try this already?
| task | model | py-fail | cli-fail | py-time | cli-time | py-tokens | cli-tokens | py-turns | cli-turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bulk_filter_bold | claude-haiku-4-5 | 0 | 0 | 11.2s | +81% | 914 | +146% | 3 | +67% |
| conditional_color | claude-haiku-4-5 | 0 | 0 | 9.1s | +20% | 741 | +51% | 2 | +50% |
| edit_formula_totals | claude-haiku-4-5 | 0 | 0 | 8.2s | -4% | 593 | -10% | 2 | 0% |
| edit_sparse | claude-haiku-4-5 | 0 | 0 | 15.0s | -26% | 858 | -14% | 4 | 0% |
| moving_avg | claude-haiku-4-5 | 3 | 0 | 11.5s | +100% | 947 | +123% | 2 | +250% |
| reorder_cols | claude-haiku-4-5 | 0 | 0 | 12.0s | +23% | 1076 | +13% | 2 | +150% |
| style_header | claude-haiku-4-5 | 0 | 0 | 7.7s | +13% | 529 | +16% | 2 | 0% |
Building from source
cargo build --release
cargo test
Dependencies
~30MB
~467K SLoC