Anyone have a link to a video of it in action?
i'll prob add over wkd
hadn't bothered as still making changes
Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Works surprisingly well, even the connection to local host to use my codex sub, would have not thoughts thats possible ;) Really cool work!
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#23I 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…
> and even free ones like Antigravity
48 hours later on hn: "Google just banned my 27 years old account for absolutely NO REASON and the customer service is useless!!!"
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#24Neat! Anything like this but for MS Word?
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#25Something, well may things, kill about Microsoft. The Office suite have a wonderful API and loading a JS app with an an interface in the apps works great. We took an Elm app from our web app and put into Excel to control downloading reports. Works great. Except you have to side load this and that is a pain - or you have to go through the MS App Store, which is a whole other headache. If anyone has any advice on makin…
You can write add-ins for Excel. I’ve used this .NET component library to build Winform apps that use the add-in interface to 13 years. Super simple and it uses the COM interface and supports all Windows Office versions.
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#26Clippy's revenge is nigh!
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#27Neat! Anything like this but for MS Word?
maybe one day
track changes is the big one to get right
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#28Do 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.
why not use a vm/wine for a native experience (though, tbf, native excel is kind of hot garbage these days compared to older versions...)
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#29I’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…
Quick doubt: did you modify Pi to make it browser compatible?
1. If yes, does it understand skills?
2. If it does have skills support, how are skills fed into it in a browser environment (without the filesystem, folders and stuff)
Re: Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel
#30I’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…
Quick doubt: did you modify Pi to make it browser compatible? 1. If yes, does it understand skills? 2. If it does have skills support, how are skills fed into it in a browser environment (without the filesystem, folders and stuff)
Didn't have to modify. OG Pi is made to be extended & used as a building block so closer to say I wrapped it
As for skills, yes and it's a virtual filesystem