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Excel MCP Server MCP Server

Create, read and edit Excel workbooks without Microsoft Excel.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

At a glance

Source code: Open repository

GitHub popularity: 4,205 stars on haris-musa/excel-mcp-server, recorded 2026-09-28.

Status

Pod has not dialled Excel MCP Server yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

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Published as excel-mcp-server on pypi. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

53 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

Most discussed

Unable to get the excel-mcp-server started in claud desktop

OS - Mac, macbook pro m3. Steps followed to setup:

  1. Git clone https://github.com/haris-musa/excel-mcp-server.git
  2. cd to excel-mcp-server folder
  3. ran this command. "uv pip install -e ."
  4. Used the below claud config( i have added directory args to specific the location of the git clone of this project) { "mcpServers": { "excel": { "command": "uv", "transport": "sse", "env": { "EXCEL_FILES_PATH": "/Users/xxx/Downloads/excel" }, "args": […

Read the thread · 2025-04-02 · closed · external user · 8 comments

Most recent

Arbitrary file read/write in stdio mode (no path confinement) and case-sensitive formula denylist bypass

reported on 5 June 2026 https://github.com/haris-musa/excel-mcp-server/security/advisories/GHSA-9h7m-8h6c-6jh7 - no response so trying here:

Summary

In stdio mode (the default transport for desktop MCP clients), the path resolver applies no confinement: EXCEL_FILES_PATH is set only for the SSE/streamable-http transports, so in stdio it is None and get_excel_path accepts any absolute path. The read/write tools therefore read and write arbitrary files anywhere the process can access. 2) The…

Read the thread · 2026-07-08 · closed · external user · 1 comment

See all 23 reviewed GitHub reports — of 53 qualified upstream.

Firsthand observations

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  "query": "Excel",
  "limit": 5
}

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