OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

rcarmo•about 2 hours ago

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. :)

nojito•16 minutes ago

Your tools don't render the file though and python-pptx hasn't been updated in 2 years.

FailMore•about 2 hours ago

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”

lelanthran•about 1 hour ago

This looks neat, but I don't see any examples of the format on the webpage (And no, I am not going to install Node.js just to see examples of the format).

FailMore•about 1 hour ago

Does this link not work? https://smalldocs.org/blogs/what-is-a-smalldoc

If you’re talking about the README, you are right, but I think the homepage has a lot of examples you can click: https://smalldocs.org/#learn

lelanthran•about 1 hour ago

I don't see a description of the format in that.

What does a human write to (for example) create the diagram mentioned in "A diagram, drawn from a description rather than dragged into place."?

To me this looks like AI-writes-everything and human-reads-everything.

nimonian•about 1 hour ago

Neat! I think agents making Word docs and PowerPoints is going to go away. I think something like small docs is the future.

FailMore•about 1 hour ago

Thanks very much! That is exactly my view too.

It’s also nice to get out of the command line for doing deep reading.

I have had a few developers try it, and some small number of them use it week after week (as do I): https://smalldocs.org/analytics

pietz•about 1 hour ago

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.

dayone1•about 1 hour ago

I’m having trouble having it take reference PowerPoint slides and converting them to html, chart and labels misplaced, the charts don’t look drawn properly, etc. how did you solve this?

neilv•about 3 hours ago

> 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.

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

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