excel-safe-workflow

excel-safe-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YuYY2004/excel-skills. It costs 185 tokens per session (2,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A five-step method for safely editing existing Excel spreadsheets: back up the file, inspect its structure, plan the change, make it, and verify the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing spreadsheet structure, editing data, converting formats, or modifying workbooks that contain formulas.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of corrupting data or formulas, especially when inserting or deleting columns or working with large files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when changing spreadsheet structure, editing data, converting formats, or modifying workbooks that contain formulas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuyy2004/excel-skills/excel-safe-workflow
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add YuYY2004/excel-skills --skill excel-safe-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YuYY2004/excel-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,433 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.
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 $0.00185 $0.02433
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.01216
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00243

Measured 10d ago against content hash bbdc5a8f55c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

excel-safe-workflow 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 10d 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.

claude/skills/excel-safe-workflow/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Excel Safe Editing Five-Step Method / Excel 安全编辑五步法

概述

编辑现有 Excel 文件(尤其是大文件或包含公式的文件)时,跳过勘察直接操作极易出错——不知道单元格里存的是值还是公式、insert 操作后公式引用错乱、处理完才发现数据对应不上。

此技能定义五步标准流程,所有 Excel 结构性编辑任务均应遵循。

第零步:备份(操作前必做) / Step Zero: Backup (Mandatory)

任何写操作都有不可逆风险。备份是第一道防线。

import shutil
from datetime import datetime

FILE = '目标文件.xlsx'
BAK = FILE.replace('.xlsx', f'_backup_{datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")}.xlsx')
shutil.copy2(FILE, BAK)
print(f'已备份: {os.path.basename(BAK)}')

规则

  • 操作前必备份,备份名含时间戳,同目录存放
  • 操作成功后,同文件历史备份仅保留最新 3 份
  • 操作失误后:立即删除损坏文件 → 从备份恢复 → 重试

第一步:勘察 / Step 1: Scout

目标:彻底了解文件结构,不遗漏任何关键信息。

1.1 文件体量

import os
size_mb = os.path.getsize('file.xlsx') / 1024 / 1024
print(f'文件大小: {size_mb:.1f} MB')
  • 估算加载时间:~1s/MB(openpyxl 全量模式)
  • 设定合理 timeout:至少 文件大小_MB × 2 + 60

1.2 结构扫描

from openpyxl import load_workbook

# 全量模式获取准确行列数
wb = load_workbook('file.xlsx')
ws = wb.active
print(f'工作表: {ws.title}, 行: {ws.max_row}, 列: {ws.max_column}')

# 读取所有表头(可能有合并单元格/多行表头)
for row_idx in range(1, 4):  # 前3行,覆盖多行表头
    for col_idx in range(1, ws.max_column + 1):
        v = ws.cell(row=row_idx, column=col_idx).value
        if v is not None:
            print(f'  行{row_idx} 列{col_idx}: {repr(v)[:60]}')

1.3 数据类型双重扫描(关键!) / Dual Data Type Scan (Critical!)

这是最常见的翻车点。 必须同时用两种模式读取,对比确认是值还是公式:

# 模式A:默认模式 → 读到公式字符串
wb_raw = load_workbook('file.xlsx', read_only=True)
ws_raw = wb_raw.active

# 模式B:data_only → 读到计算结果
wb_data = load_workbook('file.xlsx', read_only=True, data_only=True)
ws_data = wb_data.active

# 对比目标列的2-6行
for col in target_columns:
    for row in range(2, 7):
        v_raw = ws_raw.cell(row=row, column=col).value
        v_data = ws_data.cell(row=row, column=col).value
        match = type(v_raw) == type(v_data)
        print(f'  列{col}行{row}: raw={type(v_raw).__name__}={repr(v_raw)[:30]}')
        print(f'         data_only={type(v_data).__name__}={repr(v_data)[:30]} {"✓" if match else "⚠️公式!"}')

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 10d ago First seen · 235 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A bbdc5a8f55c2

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excel-safe-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuYY2004/excel-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 2,433 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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