devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export

devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export is a skill for Claude Code from DevExpress/agent-skills. It costs 131 tokens per session (4,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A low-memory .NET library for writing Excel files and CSV files one row at a time. It creates new files but cannot read or change existing workbooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export large database results, data grids, or reports to XLSX, XLS, or CSV files. Use a different spreadsheet API when you need to read files, edit them, add charts, or create pivot tables.
Why use it?
Writing rows as they are produced avoids keeping an entire large spreadsheet in memory. This suits exports where the application only needs to produce a file.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dx-office-file-api plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to export large database results, data grids, or reports to XLSX, XLS, or CSV files. Use a different spreadsheet API when you need to read files, edit them, add charts, or create pivot tables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export
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.

Any agent
npx skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-office-file-api, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,923 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00131 $0.04923
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.02462
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00985
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00492

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4ce4c3266aa6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export 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 12d 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.

plugins/dx-office-file-api/skills/devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export/SKILL.md · 425 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 425 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress Excel Export Library

The Excel Export Library is a low-level, streaming .NET API for generating Excel files (.xlsx, .xls, .csv) with a minimal memory footprint. It writes rows sequentially to an output stream and cannot read or modify existing files. Use it when you need to produce large Excel reports from databases or data grids without loading the entire document into RAM. The primary namespace is DevExpress.Export.Xl.

CRITICAL: Excel Export Library vs. Spreadsheet Document API

Excel Export Library Spreadsheet Document API
Model Streaming — write rows top-to-bottom, forward only In-memory — random access to any cell at any time
Memory Very low — ideal for large files Higher — entire workbook in RAM
Can read files? No Yes
Can modify existing files? No Yes
Charts, Pivot Tables? No Yes
NuGet DevExpress.Document.Processor (shared) DevExpress.Document.Processor
Namespace DevExpress.Export.Xl DevExpress.Spreadsheet

Rule: If the developer needs to read, modify, add charts, or create pivot tables → use the Spreadsheet Document API skill instead. If they need to stream-generate a large file from data → this skill is correct.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Generate large Excel reports (.xlsx) with low memory consumption
  • Write rows sequentially from a database reader or IEnumerable data source
  • Export grid or report engine data to Excel in a streaming fashion
  • Create Excel files in server-side or cloud environments where RAM is constrained
  • Apply cell formatting (fonts, colors, borders, number formats) during export
  • Add formulas, subtotals, or AutoFilter to generated files
  • Create conditional formatting rules on streamed data
  • Build Excel tables (IXlTable) with styles and calculated columns
  • Insert sparklines or pictures into generated worksheets
  • Configure print settings, headers/footers, and page breaks
  • Add data validation rules to cell ranges

Read the full file on GitHub · 425 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 425 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 4ce4c3266aa6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devexpress-office-file-api-excel-export is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (52 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 4,923 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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