Create, repair, and recalculate spreadsheet workbooks without breaking formulas
Use the Anthropic xlsx skill when an agent needs to create, clean up, or modify .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, or .tsv files as spreadsheet deliverables, not just inspect tabular data. It pushes the agent toward formula-safe edits, workbook validation, and recalculation instead of hardcoded
What it does
Create, repair, and recalculate spreadsheet workbooks without breaking formulas
Use the Anthropic xlsx skill when an agent needs to create, clean up, or modify .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, or .tsv files as spreadsheet deliverables, not just inspect tabular data. It pushes the agent toward formula-safe edits, workbook validation, and recalculation instead of hardcoded outputs or one-off scripts.
Prerequisites
pandas, openpyxl, LibreOffice
Installation
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The frontmatter requires only two fields:
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
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Select document-skills or example-skills
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/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
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These example skills are all already available to paid plans in Claude.ai.
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Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/xlsx
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Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/HEAD/README.md
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Quality
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