Reads, writes and fixes Word, Excel and PDF files on your own machine, without opening Office for each one.
Built for: Anyone whose week is spent between a spreadsheet from finance, a Word template from legal and a PDF from a supplier.
The button opens the checkout, where the 4 servers and 4 skills are listed one by one. Every member is free, so the checkout lists them and asks for no card.
The reason to buy a stack rather than five listings: each line below needs more than one member connected at the same time.
Pull the tables out of a supplier PDF and into an Excel workbook with the formulas that check the totals.
Fill a Word template from a spreadsheet, keeping the styles and the table of contents intact.
Search a folder of PDFs for the clause, figure or name you need and quote the page it is on.
Merge, split and reorder PDF pages for the pack that has to go out today.
What each part contributes, and why it was picked over the obvious alternative. Prices and permissions are read from the listings, so nothing here can disagree with the catalogue.
Creates, reads and edits Excel workbooks without Excel — ranges, formulas, formatting, tables, charts and validation.
Creates and edits Word documents — paragraphs, headings, tables, styles, search and replace — and reads the comments already in them.
Reads, searches, splits and merges PDFs page by page.
Searches one PDF or a folder of them, reads selected pages, tables and charts, with OCR for scans.
Anthropic's Word skill: documents with a table of contents, headings, page numbers and templates that open cleanly.
Anthropic's spreadsheet skill: formulas instead of pasted values, formatting and charts that survive the next edit.
Anthropic's PDF skill: extract text and tables, merge and split, fill forms, watermark and OCR.
A structured way to write a proposal or a decision document together, and check that it works for its reader.
Every member is free, so the monthly figure is $0 whatever you do with the stack: nothing here is billed by the call, and only adding a paid member could change it.
| Part | What you are paying for | Monthly, as quoted |
|---|---|---|
| Excel | Free | — |
| Office Word | Free | — |
| Pdf Tools | Free | — |
| Free | — | |
| Skills | ||
| DOCX creation, editing, and analysis | Free · context cost only | — |
| XLSX creation, editing, and analysis | Free · context cost only | — |
| PDF Processing Guide | Free · context cost only | — |
| Doc Co-Authoring Workflow | Free · context cost only | — |
| Everything above | $0 of servers plus $0 of skills, the same in a quiet month and a busy one | $0/mo |
Subscriptions at their monthly plan price; one-off licences spread over 12 months.
Install only these and the bill is nothing: 4 servers and 4 skills, and all 76 tools.
Nothing in this stack carries a call allowance, so nothing here can run out before the month does. The bill is decided when you install it, not when you use it.
The spend cap is one figure for the whole account, set in your dashboard and checked when an order is placed. On the call path what stops a retry loop is the plan's call allowance and its rate limit, and a refused call is never billed.
The steps below come before the install lines: what to decide and scope before connecting anything, in the order it matters. The lines themselves follow, part by part, for the client you pick.
npx mcprush@latest stack add office-docs writes all 4 servers into Claude Code’s config in one go — or run the lines below one by one. The 4 skills are not included — add them with lines 05–08.
# 01 · Excel
claude mcp add --scope user haris-musa-excel-mcp '--' uvx excel-mcp-server stdio
# 02 · Office Word
claude mcp add --scope user office-word-mcp '--' uvx --from office-word-mcp-server word_mcp_server
# 03 · Pdf Tools
claude mcp add --scope user pdf-tools-mcp '--' uvx --with 'mcp<2' pdf-tools-mcp
# 04 · PDF
claude mcp add --scope user jztan-pdf-mcp '--' uvx pdf-mcp
# 05 · DOCX creation, editing, and analysis
npx mcprush@latest skill add anthropics/docx-creation-editing-and-analysis
# 06 · XLSX creation, editing, and analysis
npx mcprush@latest skill add anthropics/xlsx-creation-editing-and-analysis
# 07 · PDF Processing Guide
npx mcprush@latest skill add anthropics/pdf-processing-guide
# 08 · Doc Co-Authoring Workflow
npx mcprush@latest skill add anthropics/doc-co-authoring-workflownpx).uvx, docs.astral.sh/uv).Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither.Nothing is connected until you approve it in Claude Code. mcprush is not in the path and meters nothing here.
Installed together, these tool surfaces add up. It is the first thing a security reviewer asks for, so what has been counted — and what nobody has counted yet — is on the page rather than in a PDF.
| Member | Tool surface | Write tools |
|---|---|---|
| Office Word | imported | 35 |
| Pdf Tools | imported | 1 |
| imported | 1 | |
| Excel | not imported | not recorded |
A stack's blast radius is the union of its members, not the worst of them. That union cannot be taken here, because 1 member of 4 has no imported tool surface — so the figure a review asks for is missing rather than low, and a member marked not imported is one nobody has counted rather than one that cannot write.
A stack is a default, not a verdict. These are the substitutions the maintainer would make, and what each one costs or saves.
The maintainer lists no alternatives for this stack.
Written by the maintainer, kept on the page rather than in a support thread.
It works on files on your machine. Documents in SharePoint or Google Drive have to be downloaded first, or handled by a server for that service.
It does not keep versions. Work on a copy when the original matters.
Macros are read, not run: VBA in a workbook can be inspected, and nothing here executes it.
A stack has an owner: whoever keeps it re-checks the combination when a member changes, and the members themselves are published by the people named on each row.
Writes the job post and the interview plan, keeps the Greenhouse pipeline moving, and drafts the offer and the first week.
Tools to inspect code changes, run checks and prepare a pull request review.
Tools to investigate a bug report and work toward a reproducible test case.