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title: "excel-cli"
description: "Let your coding agent work with real Microsoft Excel workbooks from the terminal: formulas, Power Query, PivotTables, charts, and VBA. Same features as Excel MCP, usually with fewer AI tokens. Requires Windows, desktop E"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/excel-cli
last-updated: 2026-10-13
---

# excel-cli
Let your coding agent work with real Microsoft Excel workbooks from the terminal: formulas, Power Query, PivotTables, charts, and VBA. Same features as Excel MCP, usually with fewer AI tokens. Requires Windows, desktop Excel 2016 or later, and Node.js 18 or later.
- Slug: excel-cli
- Publisher: Stefan Brönner
- Repository: https://github.com/sbroenne/mcp-server-excel
- Manifest: .github/plugins/excel-cli/plugin.json
- Version: 0.0.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): databases
- Skills: 0
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 817
- Repository created: 2025-10-19
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-13
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/excel-cli
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What excel-cli does, in the publisher's words

Command-line Excel automation for coding agents: 64% more token-efficient than MCP Server

This plugin provides the excel-cli skill plus a lightweight runtime bootstrap for GitHub Copilot CLI agents. The skill guides agents to use excelcli commands for Power Query, DAX, PivotTables, Tables, Charts, VBA, and more, all through Windows Excel COM automation.

Best for: Coding agents (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf) that need Excel automation without loading large tool schemas into context.

- Windows with Microsoft Excel 2016 or later (COM interop required)

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbroenne/mcp-server-excel/HEAD/.github/plugins/excel-cli/README.md