excel-spreadsheets

excel-spreadsheets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A spreadsheet toolset for creating, editing, reading, listing, and previewing Excel workbooks. It also includes rules for consistent professional formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new workbook, update an existing one, inspect its contents, list available workbooks, or preview sheets to verify their appearance.
Why use it?
It reduces manual spreadsheet work and adds layout checks before and after changes, helping catch problems in the visible sheet.

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/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/excel-spreadsheets
Any agent
npx skills add aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill excel-spreadsheets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,838 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 $0.00014 $0.01838
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00184

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2ae812b30f0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excel-spreadsheets 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 4d ago.

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.

chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/excel-spreadsheets/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excel Spreadsheets

When to Use

Tool Use When
create_excel_spreadsheet User asks to create/generate a NEW spreadsheet
modify_excel_spreadsheet User asks to edit/update an EXISTING spreadsheet
list_my_excel_spreadsheets User asks what spreadsheets are available
read_excel_spreadsheet User wants to download or read spreadsheet contents
preview_excel_sheets Check actual sheet appearance when editing

Workflow

  1. Before modifying: call preview_excel_sheets to check current layout.
  2. After creation/modification: call preview_excel_sheets to verify.
  3. Run tools sequentially (never parallel) to prevent file race conditions.

Professional Formatting

  • Font: Arial for all cells unless an existing template specifies otherwise.
  • Negative numbers: parentheses format (1,234) — not minus -1,234.
  • Currency: $#,##0 format. Specify units in headers (e.g., "Revenue ($mm)").
  • Percentages: 0.0% (one decimal place).
  • Years: format as text ("2024" not "2,024").
  • Zeros: display as "-" using a custom number format.
# Example: professional number formatting
from openpyxl.styles import numbers
ws['B2'].number_format = '$#,##0'          # Currency
ws['C2'].number_format = '0.0%'            # Percentage
ws['D2'].number_format = '#,##0;(#,##0)'   # Negative in parentheses
ws['E2'].number_format = '@'               # Year as text
ws['F2'].number_format = '#,##0;(#,##0);"-"'  # Zeros as dash

Financial Model Color Coding

When building financial models, apply these conventions:

Color Hex Usage
Blue text 0000FF Hardcoded inputs and assumptions
Black text 000000 All formulas and calculations
Green text 008000 Links pulling from other worksheets
Yellow background FFFF00 Key assumptions needing attention
from openpyxl.styles import Font, PatternFill
ws['B2'].font = Font(name='Arial', color='0000FF')       # Blue: input
ws['B3'].font = Font(name='Arial', color='000000')       # Black: formula
ws['B4'].font = Font(name='Arial', color='008000')       # Green: cross-sheet link
ws['B5'].fill = PatternFill('solid', fgColor='FFFF00')   # Yellow bg: key assumption

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 179 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 2ae812b30f0c

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excel-spreadsheets is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore (192 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,838 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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