xlsx
Reads, creates, and repairs spreadsheets: formulas, formatting, charts, and messy-tabular-data cleanup, scripts included.
Anatomy
| Parent repo | anthropics/skills |
|---|---|
| Path | skills/xlsx |
| Trigger conditions | "Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output" |
| Instruction format | yaml-frontmatter-md |
| Required tools | python, shell |
| Reusability | universal |
| Complexity | medium |
| Ships scripts / examples / tests / boundaries | yes / yes / no / yes |
Failure modes
Formula-heavy workbooks with cross-sheet dependencies are the hard case; validation of computed results still belongs to the user.
Verdict
The most business-critical of the document skills and the one whose trigger discipline matters most, since spreadsheet requests arrive in wildly varied phrasing.
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Frequently asked questions
What does the xlsx skill do?
Reads, creates, and repairs spreadsheets: formulas, formatting, charts, and messy-tabular-data cleanup, scripts included.
When does xlsx trigger?
Its stated trigger: "Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output". Trigger precision is a scored reliability dimension.