Connect Hermes to Excel
What happens next
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own Hermes, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in Excel
A preset of real Excel operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect Excel
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your Hermes first calls in. Hermes connects when it next starts a session.
1. Run this in your terminal
2. Answer no when asked if the server requires authentication — the link itself is the key
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Exact capabilities
Tools Hermes gets
Excel
43 toolsCreate a workbook session for persistent or non-persistent changes
Close a workbook session
Refresh a workbook session to keep it alive
Recalculate all formulas in the workbook
Execute built-in Excel function (300+ functions available)
List all worksheets in a workbook
Get worksheet details by name
Add a new worksheet to the workbook
Update worksheet properties (name, visibility, position)
Delete a worksheet from the workbook
Get the used range of a worksheet (all cells with data)
Get data from a specific cell range
Update cell values, formulas, or formatting in a range
Clear content, format, or both from a range
Insert blank cells and shift existing cells down or right
Delete cells and shift remaining cells up or left
Merge cells into a single region
Unmerge merged cells
Sort a range by column
Apply formatting to a range (font, fill, borders, alignment)
List all tables in the workbook
Get table details by name
Create a new table from a range
Delete a table (converts back to range)
Convert table to normal range (keeps data, removes table structure)
List all rows in a table
Add a row to a table
Delete a row from a table by index
List all columns in a table
Add a column to a table
Delete a column from a table
Sort a table by column
Apply auto-filter to a table column
Clear filter from a table column
List all charts in a worksheet
Get chart details by name
Create a new chart from data range
Update chart properties (title, size, position)
Delete a chart from worksheet
Get chart as base64-encoded PNG image
List all named ranges and items in the workbook
Get value of a named range or item
Create a named range or constant
Starting points
What you can build
Meet the runner
About Hermes
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Keep exploring
More ways to connect
Make it yours
Open your Hermes agent in one click.
NoClick runs Hermes for you with Excel wired in as tools. Connect your account and run.