Excel MCP Server
Updated June 2026The Excel MCP server, built by haris-musa, provides excel MCP Server (by haris-musa, nearly 4,000 GitHub stars) lets AI agents create, read, and edit Excel workbooks without Microsoft Excel installed anywhere in the pipeline. It is community-built and best for Filesystem.
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Excel MCP Server (by haris-musa, nearly 4,000 GitHub stars) lets AI agents create, read, and edit Excel workbooks without Microsoft Excel installed anywhere in the pipeline. It's a Python-based server exposing tools across the full spreadsheet lifecycle: creating and modifying workbooks and worksheets, writing formulas, building and styling Excel Tables, generating charts (line, bar, pie, scatter, and more), constructing dynamic pivot tables for analysis, and applying rich formatting — fonts, colors, borders, alignment, and conditional formatting rules. Built-in data validation keeps ranges, formulas, and cell contents consistent as an agent edits a file. The server supports three transports: stdio for local single-user setups (the default for Claude Desktop and Claude Code), plus SSE and streamable HTTP for remote deployments — when running remotely, set the EXCEL_FILES_PATH environment variable so the server knows where to read and write files, and FASTMCP_PORT to control the listening port. This makes it equally useful for a solo analyst automating a weekly report locally and for a team running a shared Excel-manipulation service that multiple agents call into. Because it operates on the raw XLSX format directly, there's no licensing dependency on Excel itself, and workflows like "pull this CSV into a formatted table with a pivot summary and a bar chart" become a single natural-language request instead of a manual multi-step process.
Installation
uvx excel-mcp-server stdioCategories
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- pip
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- haris-musa
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