Excel
Analyze Excel and CSV files in chat and generate output files
The built-in Excel tool analyzes spreadsheet files directly from chat context.
Over time, the Excel agent will be replaced by a regular assistant with the Code Sandbox tool. Both variants have the same functionality, the assistant integrates better into your team's workflow (sharing, pinning, custom instructions). The platform offers a migration wizard for this. While the Excel agent is still available, its behavior remains as described below.
Under the hood: the Excel agent uses the Code Sandbox to run Python on your spreadsheet, hosted in Falkenstein (Hetzner, Germany). This is what makes exact calculations, charts, and the generation of new result files possible (things the language model alone cannot reliably do).
Current capabilities
- Method:
excelToolAnalyze - Supported file types:
.xlsx.xls.csv
- Can analyze one or multiple files together
- Can generate output artifacts and return download links
Tool behavior
- Reads documents from the current chat context
- Uses actual file content through the tool (no guessing)
- Returns download links when output artifacts are generated
Typical use cases
- answer questions about uploaded spreadsheet data
- compute aggregates and KPI summaries
- transform data into generated output files
- run combined analysis across multiple spreadsheets