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Excel MCP Server

Excel MCP Server is an MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Codex and other AI clients create, read and edit Excel files: charts, PivotTables, formulas, tables and more. It is built on openpyxl, needs no Microsoft Excel, and… It has 4,264 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx excel-mcp-server.

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Install Excel MCP Server

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "excel-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "excel-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio excel-mcp-server -- uvx excel-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "excel-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "excel-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "excel-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "excel-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Tools (13)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • workbooks

    createworkbook, setworkbooksettings, listworkbooks, exportworkbook, importworkbook

  • sheets

    createsheet, renamesheet, copysheet, deletesheet, insertrowsorcolumns, deleterowsorcolumns

  • data

    writerange, clearrange, copyrange, sortrange, transformrange, findcells, replacecells

  • formulas

    traceformula, goalseek

  • formatting

    formatrange, mergecells, setsheetlayout, addconditionalformat, adddatavalidation

  • tables

    settable

  • charts

    createchart, deletechart, addsparklines, deletesparklines

  • pivots

    createpivottable, deletepivottable

  • slicers

    addslicer, deleteslicer

  • names

    setdefinedname, deletedefinedname

  • notes

    setnote, deletenote

  • images

    insertimage, deleteimage

  • source

    Where data comes from, optionally on another sheet (Data!A1:E200)

About Excel MCP Server

An open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Codex and other AI clients create, read and edit Excel files: charts, PivotTables, formulas, tables and more. It is built on openpyxl, needs no Microsoft Excel, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

  • excel
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • ai
  • llm
  • toolcalling
  • automation
  • stdio
  • streamable-http
  • charts

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How do I install the Excel MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command uvx excel-mcp-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Excel MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Excel MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 21, 2026. The latest release is v2.2.2, published Oct 21, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.