# iOfficeAI/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.

Repository: https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/officecli
Homepage: https://officecli.ai
Language: C#
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: agent, ai, cli, office, skills, openclaw, claude-code, codex, docx, pptx, xlsx, excel, presentation, word
Last push: 2026-08-25T15:32:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 12
- inputs: {"age_days": 171, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 139}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 29330, forks 2001 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:53.256918+00:00)

## What it is
OfficeCLI is an open-source, single-binary CLI suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files without requiring Microsoft Office. It includes an HTML/PNG rendering engine that lets agents visually inspect and iteratively fix generated documents.

## Use cases
- let an AI agent create and edit Word documents
- generate PowerPoint presentations automatically from an agent
- read and manipulate Excel spreadsheets via CLI
- render docx/xlsx/pptx to HTML or PNG for visual verification
- automate office document workflows without installing Microsoft Office
- give coding agents like Claude Code office file skills

## When to choose
- you want AI agents to produce or edit Office files with no Office installation or dependencies
- you need a single cross-platform binary for document automation
- you want render-and-verify loops so agents can visually check their output

## When to avoid
- you need a full interactive GUI office suite for human editing
- you only need lightweight programmatic parsing of Office files in a specific language ecosystem with existing libraries
- you require pixel-perfect fidelity to Microsoft Office rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, pdf, file-system, developer-tools, agent-framework, mcp
- domain: developer-tools, files, artificial-intelligence
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: office-automation, docx, xlsx, pptx, ai-agents, document-generation, single-binary, open-source, automation, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:53.256918+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:53:03.568164+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:53.256918+00:00, sha cc63fc78d60a)
  - homepage: https://officecli.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T07:50:25.529048+00:00, sha fc767a50796a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.