OfficeCLI
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.
Install / Use
npx skills add iOfficeAI/OfficeCLIInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
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OfficeCLI is the world's first and the best Office suite designed for AI agents.
Give any AI agent full control over Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — in one line of code.
Open-source. Single binary. No Office installation. No dependencies. Works everywhere.
OfficeCLI's built-in HTML rendering engine reproduces documents with high fidelity — and that's what gives AI eyes. It renders .docx / .xlsx / .pptx to HTML or PNG, closing the render → look → fix loop.
For AI Agents — Get Started in One Line
Paste this into your AI agent's chat — it will read the skill file and install everything automatically:
curl -fsSL https://officecli.ai/SKILL.md
That's it. The skill file teaches the agent how to install the binary and use all commands.
For Humans
Option A — GUI: Install AionUi — a desktop app that lets you create and edit Office documents through natural language, powered by OfficeCLI under the hood. Just describe what you want, and AionUi handles the rest.
Option B — CLI: Download the binary for your platform from GitHub Releases, then run:
officecli install
This copies the binary to your PATH and installs the officecli skill into every AI coding agent it detects — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and more. Your agent can immediately create, read, and edit Office documents on your behalf, no extra configuration needed.
For Developers — See It Live in 30 Seconds
# 1. Install (macOS / Linux) — or: brew install officecli / npm install -g @officecli/officecli
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.sh | bash
# Windows (PowerShell): irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.ps1 | iex
# 2. Create a blank PowerPoint
officecli create deck.pptx
# 3. Start live preview — opens http://localhost:26315 in your browser
officecli watch deck.pptx
# 4. Open another terminal, add a slide — watch the browser update instantly
officecli add deck.pptx / --type slide --prop title="Hello, World!"
That's it. Every add, set, or remove command you run will refresh the preview in real time. Keep experimenting — the browser is your live feedback loop.
Quick Start
# Create a presentation and add content
officecli create deck.pptx
officecli add deck.pptx / --type slide --prop title="Q4 Report" --prop background=1A1A2E
officecli add deck.pptx '/slide[1]' --type shape \
--prop text="Revenue grew 25%" --prop x=2cm --prop y=5cm \
--prop font=Arial --prop size=24 --prop color=FFFFFF
# View as outline
officecli view deck.pptx outline
# → Slide 1: Q4 Report
# → Shape 1 [TextBox]: Revenue grew 25%
# View as HTML — opens a rendered preview in your browser, no server needed
officecli view deck.pptx html
# Get structured JSON for any element
officecli get deck.pptx '/slide[1]/shape[1]' --json
# Save and close — flushes the resident session to disk
officecli close deck.pptx
{
"tag": "shape",
"path": "/slide[1]/shape[1]",
"attributes": {
"name": "TextBox 1",
"text": "Revenue grew 25%",
"x": "720000",
"y": "1800000"
}
}
Why OfficeCLI?
What used to take 50 lines of Python and 3 separate libraries:
from pptx import Presentation
from pptx.util import Inches, Pt
prs = Presentation()
slide = prs.slides.add_slide(prs.slide_layouts[0])
title = slide.shapes.title
title.text = "Q4 Report"
# ... 45 more lines ...
prs.save('deck.pptx')
Now takes one command:
officecli add deck.pptx / --type slide --prop title="Q4 Report"
What OfficeCLI can do:
- Create documents from scratch -- blank or with content
- Read text, structure, styles, formulas -- in plain text or structured JSON
- Analyze formatting issues, style inconsistencies, and structural problems
- Modify any element -- text, fonts, colors, layout, formulas, charts, images
- Reorganize content -- add, remove, move, copy elements across documents
| Format | Read | Modify | Create | |--------|------|--------|--------| | Word (.docx) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Excel (.xlsx) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | PowerPoint (.pptx) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Word — full i18n & RTL support (per-script font slots, per-script BCP-47 lang tags lang.latin/ea/cs, complex-script bold/italic/size, direction=rtl cascading through paragraph/run/section/table/style/header/footer/docDefaults, rtlGutter + pgBorders shorthand, locale-aware page numbering for Hindi/Arabic/Thai/CJK; create --locale ar-SA auto-enables RTL), paragraphs (framePr, tabs shorthand, char-based indents), runs (underline.color, position half-pts), tables (virtual column ops add/remove/move/copyfrom, hMerge), styles, textbox / shape (textbox: rotation, textDirection eaVert/vert270, gradient, shadow, opacity), headers/footers, images (PNG/JPG/GIF/SVG), equations (LaTeX input), diagrams (mermaid → native editable shapes, or any mermaid type as a full-fidelity PNG), comments, footnotes, watermarks, bookmarks, TOC, charts, hyperlinks, sections, form fields, content controls (SDT), fields (22 zero-param types + MERGEFIELD / REF / PAGEREF / SEQ / STYLEREF / DOCPROPERTY / IF), OLE objects, revisions / tracked changes (revision.type=ins\|del\|format\|moveFrom\|moveTo + revision.action=accept\|reject, per-target /revision[@author=Alice] selector, tracked Find&Replace), page background color, document properties
Excel — cells (phonetic guide / furigana on add, Excel-UI --shift left\|up on remove / shift=right\|down on add), formulas (350+ built-in functions with auto-evaluation, spilling dynamic arrays with _xlfn. auto-prefix, financial / bond and statistical families, OFFSET/INDIRECT, defined-name formula bodies inlined at parse, formula-ref rewrite on row/col insert), sheets (visible/hidden/veryHidden, print margins, printTitleRows/Cols, RTL sheetView, cascade-aware sheet rename, empty-cell bloat filter on open), boolean and/or selectors (row[Salary>5000 and Region=EMEA]), tables, sort (sheet / range, multi-key, sidecar-aware), conditional formatting, charts (including box-whisker, pareto with auto-sort + cumulative-%, log axis), pivot tables (multi-field, date grouping, showDataAs, sort, grandTotals, subtotals, compact/outline/tabular layout, repeat item labels, blank rows, calculated fields, persistent labelFilter / topN filters, cache CoW + cross-pivot sharing), slicers, named ranges, data validation, images (PNG/JPG/GIF/SVG with dual-representation fallback), sparklines, comments (RTL), autofilter, shapes, OLE objects, CSV/TSV import, $Sheet:A1 cell addressing
PowerPoint — slides (header/footer/date/slidenum toggles, hidden), shapes (pattern fill, blur effect, hyperlink tooltip + slide-jump links, **highligh
Truncated for display — read the full file on GitHub.
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