- Nice, but I don't see a lot of ECMA 376 test cases. Both https://github.com/rcarmo/python-office-mcp-server and https://github.com/rcarmo/go-ooxml are ECMA 376 compliant (I made sure), because for headless generation and handling that's kind of important :)
Oh, and you're not the first, I started this a year ago. :)
by FailMore
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- I went in the opposite direction and built https://smalldocs.org/, which is an office suite AI agents (and humans - including SWEs!) like to use.
I say it’s as if “Claude Code & Microsoft Office had a baby...”
Code available: https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs
Discord: https://discord.gg/txjATTsDaq
Sample document: https://smalldocs.org/blogs/what-is-a-smalldoc
Invoked via Claude Code by saying stuff like: “sdoc me the plan for this feature”, or “dig into our logs and sdoc me a report on our latency”
- > OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Free, open-source, single binary, no Office installation required.
1. Calling Microsoft Office simply "Office" without qualification treats it like a trademark, rather than a generic term that was in use for this class of product before MS appropriated it.
2. If you're going to treat it like a trademark, don't violate it in the same sentence.
- Is it better than letting claude code use python directly ? Especially on those 3 metrics:
1. better prompt adherence
2. visually more pleasing
3. token consumption
Especially as I think claude code got some reinforcement learning on these use cases ?
- Nice!
i'm making the same - interesting that so many ideas converge. Hopefully we can soon point an GPT6 at all of them and have a super tool. Or else GPT6 can do it without all our helpers...
https://github.com/odcpw/ooxml-cli
Glad to get feedback on what doesn't work or is missing.
I'm also making one for PowerBI - it's in testing. Drop me a line if you're interested.
- Recently, my experience is that the hardest part of writing Enterprise document by AI is not how to generate a word or excel, but to generate a office document that is accountable.
First draft generation is just a small part of the whole wore,more time consuming work is validation: whether citation , number,format, or semantic assume is right.
So i think enterprise office AI suite may need 2 layers: First is document editing, and second is revision / attribution / validation, or an unaccountable document is not applicable for real enterprise usage.
- If you don't need interactive/animated features, I can absolutely recommend to have the agent build slides in HTML and convert it to PDF. Has been a game changer for me.
- That is great.. Only the possibility of minimizing token usage when dealing with Office docs makes this very handy.
- an office suite for AI agents. next they'll unionize and demand a ping pong table.
- Very good and well done. I found immediate use-case for this.
- How does this do for processing formulas or macros in excel?
- cool,
im working on something similar. A fine-tuned model for agents to interact with docx over MCP. they wont have to deal with OOXML.
we have a waiting list for beta-users: www.vespper.com
by aussieguy1234
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- Is there anything like this for OpenOffice/Libreoffice? I have some ideas if there is
- cool,
im working on something similar. A fine-tuned model for agents to interact with docx over MCP. they wont have to deal with OOXML
vespper.com
- Great work
by beepbooptheory
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- Feel like overnight I suddenly started seeing so much stuff and comments on here concerning generating Office documents with the LLMs. What could be driving this? Doesn't latex or similar seem like a better fit here?
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