A command-line tool for creating, inspecting, proofreading, and editing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. It can work with these files without requiring Microsoft Office to be installed.

Use it to read or modify DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files, find document issues, add charts, or proofread and validate formatting.

It gives an agent a structured way to examine and change office documents while checking formatting and content.

officecli — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Team-Commonly/commonly

About the project

Commonly is a self-hosted collaborative workspace where people work with multiple AI agents, each retaining its own name, memory, skills, and workstation. Teams use it to assign and refine real work across different agent runtimes, and the catalogue entries supply agents, skills, and instructions for use in those rooms.

Team-Commonly/commonly · 1,363 stars · on GitHub · commonly.me

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 Team-Commonly/commonly --skill officecli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Team-Commonly/commonly

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/team-commonly/commonly/officecli/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/team-commonly/commonly/officecli)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/team-commonly/commonly/officecli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/team-commonly/commonly/officecli.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,526 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Tool Misuse · line 16
Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.

Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
low Supply Chain · line 16
Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.

Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00056	$0.05526
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.02210
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.01105
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00553

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ea95d07ddb93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

officecli scanned grade C 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 19 executable files (skills/morph-ppt/reference/morph-helpers.py, skills/morph-ppt/reference/morph-helpers.sh, skills/morph-ppt/reference/styles/bw--brutalist-raw/build.sh, …), 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.sh | bash

backend/commonly-bundled-skills/officecli/SKILL.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

officecli

AI-friendly CLI for .docx, .xlsx, .pptx. Single binary, no dependencies, no Office installation needed.

Install

If officecli is not installed:

# macOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.sh | bash

# Windows (PowerShell)
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.ps1 | iex

Verify with officecli --version. If still not found after install, open a new terminal.

Strategy

L1 (read) → L2 (DOM edit) → L3 (raw XML). Always prefer higher layers. Add --json for structured output.

Before doc work, check Specialized Skills (bottom of this file). Fundraising decks, academic papers, financial models, dashboards, and Morph animations need their own skill loaded first — load_skill once, then proceed.

Help System (IMPORTANT)

When unsure about property names, value formats, or command syntax, ALWAYS run help instead of guessing. One help query beats guess-fail-retry loops.

officecli help ≡ officecli --help, and officecli <cmd> --help ≡ officecli help <cmd> — same content.

officecli help                                  # All commands + global options + schema entry points
officecli help docx                             # List all docx elements
officecli help docx paragraph                   # Full schema: properties, aliases, examples, readbacks
officecli help docx set paragraph               # Verb-filtered: only props usable with `set`
officecli help docx paragraph --json            # Structured schema (machine-readable)

Format aliases: word→docx, excel→xlsx, ppt/powerpoint→pptx. Verbs: add, set, get, query, remove. MCP exposes the same schema via {"command":"help","format":"docx","type":"paragraph"}.

Performance: Resident Mode

Every command auto-starts a resident on first access (60s idle timeout) — file-lock conflicts are automatically avoided. Explicit open/close is still recommended for longer sessions (12min idle):

officecli open report.docx       # explicitly keep in memory
officecli set report.docx ...    # no file I/O overhead
officecli close report.docx      # save and release

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

1mo ago First seen · 411 lines · 56 tokens per session scan C ea95d07ddb93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

officecli is a skill published in the GitHub repository Team-Commonly/commonly (1,363 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 5,526 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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officecli

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade C, and why

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

Makes network callslowCapability

How it starts

officecli

Install

Strategy

Help System (IMPORTANT)

Performance: Resident Mode

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

Other skills, from other repositories

xlsx

convert-documents-to-markdown

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