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Excel MCP Server

mcp to explore excels

Installation

Add the following to your MCP client configuration file.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ash1998-excel-mcp": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Excel MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol server that lets Large Language Models read, explore, and analyze Excel files. It exposes file operations, data discovery, and analysis tools so you can load workbooks, inspect structure, sample data, and generate dataset summaries for AI-assisted querying.

How to use

You connect your MCP client to the Excel Explorer server to interact with Excel data. Start the server locally, then point your client to the MCP endpoint. Use the available tools to load files, inspect sheets and metadata, sample data, and generate descriptive statistics. The server exposes operations that you call through the MCP interface; you do not need to interact with low-level protocols directly.

Available tools

load_excel

Load an Excel file into the MCP server so subsequent operations can access its data.

list_sheets

Return the list of all sheets present in the loaded Excel file.

get_file_info

Provide metadata about the loaded file, including size and creation details.

clear_cache

Clear in-memory cached data to free resources.

get_schema

Return column types and statistics for each sheet in the workbook.

get_sample_data

Fetch a sample of rows from a sheet to inspect data values and formats.

get_column_info

Analyze a specific column to reveal data patterns, types, and quality indicators.

get_dimensions

Report dataset size and memory usage for the loaded workbook.

describe_dataset

Generate a statistical summary of the dataset, with options to include all metrics.