excel-processor

A tool for reading, creating, changing, formatting, and analyzing Excel spreadsheets in .xlsx format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract spreadsheet data, create reports, add formulas, format cells, work with multiple sheets, and create charts or conditional formatting.
Why use it?
It removes the need to handle spreadsheet cells, formulas, charts, and formatting manually or write separate scripts for common spreadsheet tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aidotnet/opencowork/excel-processor
Any agent
npx skills add AIDotNet/OpenCowork --skill excel-processor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIDotNet/OpenCowork

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,044 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00055 $0.01044
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2d8e51437cbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excel-processor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/excel_tool.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

resources/skills/excel-processor/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excel Processor

Read, write, analyze, and format Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx) using Python.

When to use this skill

  • User asks to create an Excel spreadsheet
  • User wants to read or extract data from an .xlsx file
  • User needs to add formulas, formatting, or charts to a spreadsheet
  • User wants to convert CSV/JSON data into a formatted Excel file
  • User needs Excel report generation with multiple sheets

Scripts overview

Script Purpose Dependencies
excel_tool.py Read, write, format, and analyze Excel files openpyxl

Steps

1. Install dependencies (first time only)

pip install openpyxl

CRITICAL — Dependency Error Recovery: If the script fails with an ImportError, install the missing dependency using the command above, then re-run the EXACT SAME script command that failed.

2. Read an Excel file

python scripts/excel_tool.py read "INPUT.xlsx"

Options:

  • --sheet SHEET_NAME — Read a specific sheet (default: active sheet)
  • --format json — Output as JSON instead of table
  • --format csv — Output as CSV
  • --save OUTPUT_PATH — Save output to file

3. Create a new Excel file from CSV

python scripts/excel_tool.py create "OUTPUT.xlsx" --from-csv "DATA.csv"

Options:

  • --from-csv PATH — Import data from CSV file
  • --from-json PATH — Import data from JSON file
  • --sheet SHEET_NAME — Set the sheet name (default: Sheet1)
  • --title TITLE — Add a title row with merged cells
  • --auto-width — Auto-adjust column widths to fit content
  • --header-style — Apply bold + colored header row

4. Add a sheet to existing workbook

python scripts/excel_tool.py add-sheet "EXISTING.xlsx" --sheet "NewSheet" --from-csv "DATA.csv"

5. Apply formatting

python scripts/excel_tool.py format "FILE.xlsx" --auto-width --header-style --freeze-header

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 2d8e51437cbc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

excel-processor is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIDotNet/OpenCowork (632 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,044 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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