What is open-workbook-skills?

Um conjunto de instruções para automatizar planilhas do Microsoft Excel abertas no computador usando o Open Workbook MCP. Ele orienta o agente a ler e alterar células, tabelas, fórmulas, estilos, gráficos e relatórios preservando o trabalho atual.

Serve para inspecionar e atualizar intervalos e tabelas, corrigir fórmulas e estilos, criar tabelas dinâmicas e gráficos, validar relatórios e salvar ou exportar planilhas.

Evita trabalhar sobre uma cópia desatualizada quando a planilha aberta contém alterações não salvas. Também oferece práticas para validar mudanças e manter possibilidade de recuperação.

open-workbook-skills — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by components-kit: Um conjunto de instruções para automatizar planilhas do Microsoft…

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/components-kit/open-workbook/open-workbook-skills

Any agent

npx skills add components-kit/open-workbook --skill open-workbook-skills

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/components-kit/open-workbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/components-kit/open-workbook/open-workbook-skills.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/components-kit/open-workbook/open-workbook-skills)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/components-kit/open-workbook/open-workbook-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/components-kit/open-workbook/open-workbook-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,455 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00074	$0.05455
Opus 5	$0.00037	$0.02728
Sonnet 5	$0.00015	$0.01091
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00545

Measured 5d ago against content hash db04b1c2eb59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

open-workbook-skills scanned grade B with 2 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 5d 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

Never tell the user you cannot detect the selected row/cell/range before calling `excel.agent.run`. The model cannot see Excel selection by itself, but Open Workbook can read it through the connected add-in. If the user

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`excel://...` result handles returned by Open Workbook are internal MCP/Open Workbook handles, not web URLs. Never use Webfetch, browser fetch, curl, or HTTP tooling for `resultUri`, `fullResultUri`, or `resourceLinks`.

skills/open-workbook-skills/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open Workbook Skills

Use Open Workbook MCP for live desktop Excel work. It is the required first path when the workbook is open in Excel and the user expects current cell values, unsaved edits, formatting, formulas, filters, tables, pivots, charts, snapshots, backups, transaction history, and rollback safety to survive.

Do not inspect or modify a connected live workbook with shell scripts, Python, openpyxl, pandas, manual UI automation, or offline .xlsx parsing unless the user explicitly asks for offline file analysis or the MCP path is unavailable and the user approves the fallback. For workbook/worksheet "look at", "inspect", "review", or "what is this" requests, do not run ls, stat, Python, or offline file checks as a preflight; call excel.agent.run first. If Open Workbook is connected but returns an empty live-read diagnostic or cannot_complete, report that Open Workbook live-read failure instead of switching to saved-file parsing.

Public Surface

Normal agents call one tool:

excel.agent.run

Use modes deliberately:

status: check Excel/add-in readiness and shared-agent coordination.
prepare: cache workbook identity, sheet/table/name/region metadata, and collaboration state.
find: locate candidate sheets, tables, headers, named ranges, regions, formulas, and summary blocks.
answer: targeted live reads, schemas, summaries, comparisons, and deterministic inspection.
preview_update: preview mutations and get an operationId plus confirmationToken when review is required.
apply_update: apply only a previewed operation with the returned token.
operation_status: check a returned operation without reissuing preview/apply.
cancel_operation: cancel a pending preview before apply starts.
validate: validate workbook, sheet, table, formula, style, filter, print-layout, or unintended-change scope.
rollback: inspect or apply recovery through returned transaction, snapshot, or backup guidance.
auto: default route for casual prompts and small explicit value edits; safe narrow edits may apply in one call after workbook write access is allowed for the session unless autoApply: false.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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.

5d ago First seen · 147 lines · 74 tokens per session scan B db04b1c2eb59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open-workbook-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository components-kit/open-workbook (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 5,455 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (subtle steering, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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