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Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

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#11
Question. Does this help actually build with excel or just analyze what data is in excel?

For example, “build a Gantt chart base on … and suggest a the best layout for the data to drive the chart.”

Gets me no where with copilot but it always just wants to answer questions about my data which isn’t helpful to me.

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

#13

I saw this today on X. It's built on top of the pi coding agent (same one used by openclaw). It uses pi-web-ui ( https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/tree/main/packages%2Fweb... ). What surprised me was that it works with oauth tokens from consumer AI subscriptions, and even free ones like Antigravity. Some of this is inherited from pi, but the author did some extra work to build a proxy to allow auth to work even fro…

Is pi better than opencode?

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

#14
post #8

I’m building it It’s got various things to clean up but the idea is to bring the spirit of pi (an OSS coding agent that can extend itself and gives you maximal freedom) to excel. So it has things that claude for excel will never have - like tmux, the ability to use any model provider that works with pi, and of course extensions built in lets you play snake while your agent works; I added some personal ones for slash…

Just tried it, very cool! Do you have experience with limits, like is there a max table size it can reason about?

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

#15
post #3

Do you plan supporting the web version of Excel? I’m a heavy Excel user and would love to try this, but I’m on Linux, so I can use only the online version of Excel.

you can try it in the web version, download the manifest file form his website. Than go in the webversion to add in -> my add ins -> upload and upload the manifest file. Only downside is that it will disappear after a week or so.

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

#16

Question. Does this help actually build with excel or just analyze what data is in excel? For example, “build a Gantt chart base on … and suggest a the best layout for the data to drive the chart.” Gets me no where with copilot but it always just wants to answer questions about my data which isn’t helpful to me.

I just tried it, its very cool, so it can not just summarize data, but also create and format table, however it can not create charts yet. I asked to create me on and it created another table and told me what i need to do in the UI to create a chart based on it

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

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post #14
post #8

I’m building it It’s got various things to clean up but the idea is to bring the spirit of pi (an OSS coding agent that can extend itself and gives you maximal freedom) to excel. So it has things that claude for excel will never have - like tmux, the ability to use any model provider that works with pi, and of course extensions built in lets you play snake while your agent works; I added some personal ones for slash…

Just tried it, very cool! Do you have experience with limits, like is there a max table size it can reason about?

generally been fine, adding some optimisations over wkd to increase. Primary thing I want to fix = right now full tool results get passed direct into context so can overflow if using python on a large sheet

https://github.com/tmustier/pi-for-excel/issues/377

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

#18

I saw this today on X. It's built on top of the pi coding agent (same one used by openclaw). It uses pi-web-ui ( https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/tree/main/packages%2Fweb... ). What surprised me was that it works with oauth tokens from consumer AI subscriptions, and even free ones like Antigravity. Some of this is inherited from pi, but the author did some extra work to build a proxy to allow auth to work even fro…

Is pi better than opencode?

opencode is great, but I'm a big pi fan - pi has a minimal core that is hackable+extensible by design and is aware of its own docs. So your coding agent can mod your coding agent exactly as you like. https://pi.dev/

Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

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post #15
post #3

Do you plan supporting the web version of Excel? I’m a heavy Excel user and would love to try this, but I’m on Linux, so I can use only the online version of Excel.

you can try it in the web version, download the manifest file form his website. Than go in the webversion to add in -> my add ins -> upload and upload the manifest file. Only downside is that it will disappear after a week or so.

I might do once I get local to a good spot. Should in theory be fine on web... but haven't tested/tried
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