fetch-pyxll-docs

Fetch the PyXLL documentation and use it as context for any PyXLL task. Training-data knowledge of PyXLL is incomplete and may be wrong — the live docs are the only authoritative source.

Steps

1. Fetch the documentation index to find relevant pages:

   curl -s https://www.pyxll.com/llms.txt
   

   Read the entire output without truncating — the index contains a navigation guide mapping common tasks to sections, followed by page titles, descriptions, and URLs grouped by topic.

2. Fetch the individual pages relevant to the task directly by their URL:

   curl -s <page-url>
   

3. If the index does not surface what you need, use the search script to find pages by keyword.

   The search script is located at scripts/search-pyxll-docs.sh relative to this skill's base directory.

   <SKILL_BASE_DIR>/scripts/search-pyxll-docs.sh <keyword> [keyword2 ...]
   

   Important: Replace <SKILL_BASE_DIR> with the actual base directory path provided when this skill is loaded.

   The script outputs a list of matching page URLs (one per line). Fetch each returned URL individually using curl.

4. If the task involves writing or modifying code that uses the Excel COM API — any code that calls pyxll.xl_app() or XLCell.to_range(), or that accesses COM objects such as Range, Worksheet, Workbook, Font, Interior, Borders, etc.:

   • Invoke the pywin32-excel-docs skill before writing any code. Its resources/ directory is the authoritative reference for all Excel COM classes — do not rely on training data for COM API details.
   • Fetch https://www.pyxll.com/docs/userguide/vba.md and read it in full — it documents critical differences between VBA and Python, including how COM properties that take arguments must be called as Get<PropertyName>(args) rather than Property(args) as in VBA.

5. If the task involves writing or modifying a ribbon or context menu XML file (customUI XML, ribbon = in pyxll.cfg, or any onAction/getLabel/getEnabled ribbon callback):

   • Invoke the office-customui-xsd skill before writing any XML. It is the authoritative reference for which elements, attributes, and nesting are valid — training-data knowledge of the schema is incomplete and produces invalid XML.