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Adobe Anyexcel

by adobe in adobe/skills

MANDATORY when an Excel/XLSX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text or tables are already extracted and visible in the conversation.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDocuments & Office

Install Adobe Anyexcel

skills CLI
$ npx skills add adobe/skills --skill adobe-anyexcel -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install adobe/skills adobe-anyexcel --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adobe/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/creative-cloud/adobe-for-creativity/skills/adobe-anyexcel .claude/skills/adobe-anyexcel && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
adobe-anyexcel
GitHub stars
195
Token cost
~889 tokens
SKILL.md length
387 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
105
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

MANDATORY when an Excel/XLSX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text or tables are already extracted and visible in the conversation.

  • Tasks that involve Excel spreadsheets
  • SKILL.md covers Tool Reference and Workflow
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Adobe Anyexcel is an agent skill from adobe/skills. MANDATORY when an Excel/XLSX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text or tables are already extracted and visible in the conversation. Covers: 'convert this pdf to excel/xlsx', 'pull the tables from this pdf into a spreadsheet', 'turn this pdf into a spreadsheet'. Requires viewing THIS file before defaulting to hand-authoring a spreadsheet with openpyxl/pandas. Route to adobe-anypdf's pdfexport (targetformat: xlsx) first. Do NOT use this file when there is no PDF source — a…

Its SKILL.md is about 890 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Documents & Office, covering Excel spreadsheets. It works with Microsoft Excel, openpyxl and pandas. The repository describes itself as: Adobe Skills for Agents. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Excel spreadsheets

Example prompts

  • “s source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF”
  • “convert this pdf to excel/xlsx”
  • “pull the tables from this pdf into a spreadsheet”
  • “/adobe-anyexcel”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): adobe_mandatory_init, pdf_export

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cbc9952. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • adobe_mandatory_init
    • pdf_export

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Adobe Anyexcel loads about 889 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 161 tokens; SKILL.md has 387 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~161
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~889

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from adobe/skills at commit cbc9952, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© adobe). 387 words, ~889 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/adobe-anyexcel/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
adobe-anyexcel
description
MANDATORY when an Excel/XLSX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text or tables are already extracted and visible in the conversation. Covers: 'convert this pdf to excel/xlsx', 'pull the tables from this pdf into a spreadsheet', 'turn this pdf into a spreadsheet'. Requires viewing THIS file before defaulting to hand-authoring a spreadsheet with openpyxl/pandas. Route to adobe-anypdf's pdf_export (target_format: xlsx) first. Do NOT use this file when there is no PDF source — a from-scratch spreadsheet request, or editing an existing .xlsx/.csv, is the public xlsx skill's job, not this one.
allowed-tools
adobe_mandatory_init, pdf_export
license
Apache-2.0
metadata.version
1.0.0
metadata.visibility
public
metadata.surface
claude

Adobe AnyExcel

This is a routing file, not a standalone authoring tool. It exists for exactly one decision: is this XLSX task's source content a PDF?

Tool Reference

StepToolNotes
Initializeadobe_mandatory_initRequired before pdf_export
Convert PDF to XLSXpdf_exporttarget_format: xlsx

Workflow

Step 0 — Initialize Adobe Tools

Call adobe_mandatory_init before calling pdf_export.

json
{ "skill_name": "adobe-anyexcel", "skill_version": "1.0.0" }
Router
  • Source is an uploaded/attached PDF (even if its text or tables are already visible in the conversation as extracted content) → this is a PDF-to-XLSX conversion. Check the adobe-anypdf skill, call adobe_mandatory_init, then pdf_export with target_format: xlsx. Do this before opening the public xlsx skill or writing any openpyxl/pandas code.
  • No PDF involved — building a spreadsheet from scratch, cleaning a .csv, editing an existing .xlsx, building a financial model or chart — this file has nothing to add. Go straight to the public xlsx skill.
When to still prefer hand-authoring over pdf_export

pdf_export reproduces the PDF's tables and layout as a spreadsheet — it does not restructure data, build formulas, or clean up inconsistent tables. Prefer building the spreadsheet by hand with the xlsx skill instead, even when the source is a PDF, if:

  • The user wants the extracted data cleaned, restructured, or turned into a model (formulas, pivot-style summaries) rather than a literal table dump.
  • pdf_export fails with a clear transient error — retry once. If it still fails, is unavailable, or the Adobe connector isn't reachable at all, fall back to hand-authoring with the xlsx skill.
  • The user has already seen the pdf_export output and asked for something different.
Show full SKILL.md (135 more words)Show less

When in doubt, running pdf_export first and showing the result costs little — a direct conversion is a fine starting point to compare against, and the user can then ask for cleanup if the table structure didn't carry over well.

Known failure mode — do not repeat

This file exists because of a reproduced, confirmed failure in the equivalent PPTX case: given a PDF with its text already extracted into the conversation, plus a request to convert it, the model has repeatedly defaulted straight to hand-authoring with the target format's own skill — skipping pdf_export entirely, even when adobe-anypdf's own MANDATORY router already covered the request. The same pattern is expected to apply here. If you notice yourself about to call openpyxl, pandas.to_excel, or build a spreadsheet from visible PDF text by hand, stop and check pdf_export first.

© adobe, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/creative-cloud/adobe-for-creativity/skills/adobe-anyexcel of adobe/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cbc9952

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Questions about Adobe Anyexcel

What does Adobe Anyexcel do?

MANDATORY when an Excel/XLSX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text or tables are already extracted and visible in the conversation. Adobe Anyexcel is an agent skill from adobe/skills. MANDATORY when an Excel/XLSX task's source content is an uploaded PDF — including when the PDF's text or tables are already extracted and visible in the conversation.

When should I use Adobe Anyexcel?

Adobe Anyexcel fits situations like: tasks that involve Excel spreadsheets.

How do I install Adobe Anyexcel in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add adobe/skills --skill adobe-anyexcel -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/creative-cloud/adobe-for-creativity/skills/adobe-anyexcel in adobe/skills) into .claude/skills/adobe-anyexcel in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Adobe Anyexcel in Codex?

Run `npx skills add adobe/skills --skill adobe-anyexcel -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/creative-cloud/adobe-for-creativity/skills/adobe-anyexcel in adobe/skills) into .agents/skills/adobe-anyexcel in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Adobe Anyexcel in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add adobe/skills --skill adobe-anyexcel -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/adobe-anyexcel, .gemini/skills/adobe-anyexcel, .github/skills/adobe-anyexcel and .opencode/skills/adobe-anyexcel in your project.

What does Adobe Anyexcel need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Adobe Anyexcel is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: adobe_mandatory_init, pdf_export.

Does Adobe Anyexcel access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Adobe Anyexcel safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Adobe Anyexcel use?

Adobe Anyexcel is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Adobe Anyexcel use?

About 889 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Adobe Anyexcel?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Adobe Anyexcel: XLSX (mateaix/mateclaw, 1.1k stars), Kimi XLSX (thvroyal/kimi-skills, 238 stars), Office XLSX (singula-ai/alego, 109 stars) and Create Spreadsheet (theexperiencecompany/gaia, 308 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Adobe Anyexcel?

adobe (a GitHub organization) maintains it in adobe/skills, which has 195 GitHub stars. The repository holds 105 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: adobe/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.