Who is OfficeCLI for?

Suits developers and agent users who want AI to produce or edit Office files; you should be comfortable running shell commands.

What can you build with OfficeCLI?

Let a coding agent generate a slide deck from a prompt and check how it looks. Build an Excel budget tracker or gradebook with formulas and charts from a script. Draft a Word report with headings, tables, a table of contents and comments. Audit existing documents for formatting problems or inconsistent styles. Run batch edits across many Office files on a server with no Office installed.

iOfficeAI /

OfficeCLI

Command-line tool that lets AI agents create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files

32.3k stars
859 stars since 3 Oct
C#
Updated 2 days ago
Some experience
Agent skills & plugins

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AI agents often need to produce Office documents, but the usual route is a Python library such as python-pptx and many lines of code per slide. OfficeCLI replaces that with short shell commands, for example adding a slide with one officecli add call. It is written in C#, ships as one binary, and needs no Office install.

Every element in a document has a path, such as /slide[1]/shape[1]. You work on those paths with commands like create, add, set, get, remove and view, and you can get plain text or JSON back. A live preview (officecli watch) opens in your browser and refreshes after each command.

The README says its built-in renderer turns documents into HTML or PNG, so an agent can render, look at the result and fix it. An install command also adds a skill file to coding agents it detects, including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and GitHub Copilot. For people who prefer a desktop app, the README points to AionUi, which is built on it.

What it does

Three formats, read and write
Reads, modifies and creates Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, with output as plain text or structured JSON.
Wide element support
Covers tables, charts, images, equations and tracked changes in Word; formulas, pivot tables and conditional formatting in Excel; animations, transitions and themes in PowerPoint.
Rendering and live preview
Converts documents to HTML or PNG, and officecli watch serves a browser preview that updates with each command.
Agent skill install
officecli install copies the binary onto your PATH and installs a skill into the AI coding agents it detects.
No Office needed
Runs as a single binary with no dependencies. Install options include a shell script, Homebrew and npm.

What you could build

Let a coding agent generate a slide deck from a prompt and check how it looks.
Build an Excel budget tracker or gradebook with formulas and charts from a script.
Draft a Word report with headings, tables, a table of contents and comments.
Audit existing documents for formatting problems or inconsistent styles.
Run batch edits across many Office files on a server with no Office installed.

Get started

Install the binary with the script (or Homebrew or npm), then create a blank deck and start the live preview. In a second terminal, add a slide and watch the browser update. To give your agent the skill, download the binary from GitHub Releases and run officecli install.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI/main/install.sh | bash

officecli create deck.pptx

officecli watch deck.pptx

Commands are copied from the project's README. Read it on GitHub for the full setup.