# Excel Read Tools

> Use this tool when you need to analyze Excel workbooks without modifying them, such as extracting metadata, reading sheet content, or searching for text across sheets. It provides a read-only interface for inputting Excel files and outputs extracted data, metadata, or search results. Ideal for data analysis workflows, Excel file inspection, and content auditing, where write permissions are not required or desired.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/ogumarusuisan-excel-read-tools  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/ogumarusuisan-excel-read-tools

## Description

A read-only Excel server built by OgumaruSuisan that provides five specialized tools for analyzing Excel workbooks without modification capabilities. The implementation uses pandas and openpyxl to offer workbook metadata extraction, sheet content reading with optional range specifications, bulk sheet processing with row limits, quick overviews with sample data, and text search across sheets with cell-level results. Features automatic datetime normalization, error handling, and absolute path validation for security, making it useful for data analysis workflows, Excel file inspection, content auditing, and building assistants that need to read and analyze spreadsheet data without write permissions.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.90
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** security
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/ogumarusuisan-excel-read-tools)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ogumarusuisan/excelreadmcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "ogumarusuisan-excel-read-tools"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/ogumarusuisan-excel-read-tools` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/ogumarusuisan-excel-read-tools/pull`

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