Data conversion and parsing

Excel converter for AI agents

Reads workbooks and returns sheet ranges as JSON.

utilities.excel_reader_writer

What it does

Reads workbooks and returns sheet ranges as JSON. It is one of the Data conversion and parsing tools in the Ahura Utilities catalogue: a ready-made MCP tool that an agent calls with a typed input and gets a structured result back, with no library to install and no sandbox to start.

How agents use it

Agents use excel converter to extract metrics and tables from legacy spreadsheets. Because it is a plain tool call, it slots into a single agent turn or a step in an Ahura Workflow, and large inputs and outputs are passed by reference using a store:// address from Ahura Store.

Interactive simulation

Run excel converter

Press Run to send the call. The dashboard shows what it would use in a partition. Simulated: nothing is actually executed.

ahura mcp · ptn_demo_7f3a

# Extract metrics and tables from legacy spreadsheets.

→ POST /mcp

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "utilities.excel_reader_writer",
    "arguments": {
      "source": "store://data/input.csv",
      "output": "store://out/excel_reader_writer.json"
    }
  }
}

Ready. Press Run.

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Good to know

Billed per call, with the price shown in tools/list. See pricing
Runs inside your partition, so inputs and results stay isolated and follow its retention settings.
Safe to chain: pair it with Ahura Workflows for retries and approvals.

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