excel-author

excel-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johnson7788/MultiUserClaw. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,399 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of excel-author, MIT.

A Python tool for creating reviewable Excel workbooks, including financial models, reconciliations, and audit outputs. It uses formulas and color conventions to show which cells are inputs, calculations, or links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build financial models, audit workbooks, reconciliations, balance checks, named-range models, and sensitivity tables in .xlsx format.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of hidden hardcoded results and makes a spreadsheet easier for another person to inspect and update.

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/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/excel-author
Any agent
npx skills add johnson7788/MultiUserClaw --skill excel-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnson7788/MultiUserClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,399 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.02399
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01200
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00240

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3445ec1d481f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excel-author 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/recalc.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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to excel-author — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/finance/excel-author/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

excel-author

Produce an .xlsx file on disk using openpyxl. Follow the banker-grade conventions below so the model is auditable, flexible, and reviewable by someone other than the person who built it.

Adapted from Anthropic's xlsx-author and audit-xls skills in the anthropics/financial-services repo. The MCP / Office-JS / Cowork-specific branches of the originals are dropped — this skill assumes headless Python.

Output contract

  • Write to ./out/<name>.xlsx. Create ./out/ if it does not exist.
  • Return the relative path in your final message so downstream tools can pick it up.
  • One logical model per file. Do not append to an existing workbook unless explicitly asked.

Setup

pip install "openpyxl>=3.0"

Core conventions (non-negotiable)

Blue / black / green cell color

  • Blue (Font(color="0000FF")) — hardcoded input a human entered. Revenue drivers, WACC inputs, terminal growth, market data.
  • Black (default) — formula. Every derived cell is a live Excel formula.
  • Green (Font(color="006100")) — link to another sheet or external file.

A reviewer can then scan the sheet and immediately see what's an assumption vs. what's computed.

Formulas over hardcodes

Every calculation cell MUST be a formula string, never a number computed in Python and pasted as a value.

# WRONG — silent bug waiting to happen
ws["D20"] = revenue_prior_year * (1 + growth)

# CORRECT — flexes when the user changes the assumption
ws["D20"] = "=D19*(1+$B$8)"

The only hardcoded numbers permitted:

  1. Raw historical inputs (actual revenues, reported EBITDA, etc.)
  2. Assumption drivers the user is meant to flex (growth rates, WACC inputs, terminal g)
  3. Current market data (share price, debt balance) — with a cell comment documenting source + date

If you catch yourself computing a value in Python and writing the result, stop.

Named ranges for cross-sheet references

Use named ranges for any figure referenced from another sheet, a deck, or a memo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 5d ago First seen · 245 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 3445ec1d481f

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excel-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnson7788/MultiUserClaw (318 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,399 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to excel-author, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.