spreadsheets

A skill for creating, editing, reviewing, analyzing, or structuring spreadsheets such as XLSX, CSV, and TSV files. It covers tables, formulas, validation rules, pivots, charts, trackers, dashboards, and financial models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or inspect budgets, schedules, trackers, reports, calculators, dashboards, and other spreadsheet work. For XLSX creation or editing, it first explains the available local workflow and asks before using shell commands.
Why use it?
It helps turn raw rows and columns into an organized, readable, and checkable workbook or data plan. It emphasizes correct calculations and clear separation between inputs and derived results.

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/shawnstack/quickforge/spreadsheets
Any agent
npx skills add shawnstack/quickforge --skill spreadsheets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnstack/quickforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,024 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 $0.00058 $0.01024
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00512
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00102

Measured 2d ago against content hash ef3b9f34973f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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/spreadsheets/skills/spreadsheets/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spreadsheets skill

Use this skill to create or improve spreadsheet-oriented deliverables. A good spreadsheet is organized, auditable, readable, and fit for the user's purpose. For analysis-heavy tasks, correctness matters as much as formatting.

This QuickForge adaptation intentionally does not depend on Codex cache paths, Codex workspace dependencies, or @oai/artifact-tool. Prefer spreadsheet plans, CSV/TSV outputs, formulas, workbook specs, or Markdown tables first. If the user explicitly needs XLSX generation or editing, explain the available local workflow and ask before using shell commands or external tools.

When to use

Use this skill for requests involving:

  • Creating trackers, schedules, budgets, calculators, models, dashboards, reports, or tabular templates.
  • Working with .xlsx, .xls, .csv, .tsv, or Google Sheets-targeted spreadsheet content.
  • Designing formulas, validations, tables, pivots, charts, or workbook structure.
  • Analyzing spreadsheet data or answering questions about provided tabular files.
  • Reviewing or improving workbook layout, formulas, assumptions, or data quality.

Spreadsheet principles

  1. Separate purpose, inputs, calculations, and outputs. For non-trivial workbooks, avoid mixing everything on one sheet.
  2. Make assumptions visible. Put assumptions near the top or in a dedicated sheet/section.
  3. Use clear labels and units. Headers should be unambiguous.
  4. Prefer auditable formulas. Explain formulas and avoid hidden magic.
  5. Design for maintenance. Tables should be easy to extend.
  6. Validate important outputs. Include checks for reconciliations, totals, or formula consistency when relevant.
  7. Use charts only when they add insight. Every chart should have a takeaway.

Simple tracker/template

  • Title and usage note.
  • Main table with clear columns.
  • Status or category values if useful.
  • Summary section only if it helps.

Analysis workbook

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A ef3b9f34973f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spreadsheets is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnstack/quickforge (47 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,024 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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