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Excel MCP Server

Excel MCP Server is an MCP server that lets AI assistants create, read and edit Excel workbooks. It needs no Microsoft Excel installation. It has 4,212 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx excel-mcp-server.

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Install Excel MCP Server

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

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).

About Excel MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants create, read and edit Excel workbooks. It needs no Microsoft Excel installation.

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

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What is Excel MCP Server?

Excel MCP Server is an MCP server that lets AI assistants create, read and edit Excel workbooks. It needs no Microsoft Excel installation. It has 4,212 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx excel-mcp-server. The source code is at github.com/haris-musa/excel-mcp-server.

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 Sep 28, 2026. The latest release is v1.1.1, published Sep 28, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.