Zoho Sheet CLI — Spreadsheet Intelligence for Agents & Developers

The fastest way to read, edit, and automate Zoho Sheet spreadsheets — without opening a GUI.

Zoho Sheet CLI is an open-source, cross-platform command-line tool that brings full spreadsheet power to your terminal. Whether you're automating reports, scripting data pipelines, building LLM-powered agents, or just want to edit a cell without loading a GUI, Zoho Sheet CLI gets it done in milliseconds.

Why Zoho Sheet CLI?

• ⚡ Instant startup — native Rust binary, no JVM, no interpreter overhead
• 🤖 Script-friendly — pipe commands, use in CI/CD, automate anything
• 🖥️ Works everywhere — Windows, macOS, Linux (x86 & ARM)
• 📂 Supports key formats — .xlsx, .csv, .tsv
• 🔁 Interactive REPL — explore and edit spreadsheets live in your terminal
• 🧠 LLM & agent ready — clean stdio interface makes it trivial to wire into AI agents, MCP servers, and LLM tool-use workflows
• 🔌 Powered by Zoho Sheet's native engine — the same engine behind one of the world's most-used spreadsheet platforms

Quick Start

Open a spreadsheet and start editing - jump into the interactive REPL:

$ zs-cli

zs-cli> open file-name.xlsx
✔ Opened: file-name.xlsx (3 sheets)

zs-cli [file-name | Sheet1]> cell get A1
Revenue

zs-cli [file-name | Sheet1]> cell set B2 --formula "=SUM(B3:B100)"
✔ B2 = 42850.00

zs-cli [file-name | Sheet1]> save
✔ Saved: file-name.xlsx

Built for Agentic & LLM Workflows

Zoho Sheet CLI is designed to be a first-class tool in AI-powered pipelines. Its clean, predictable stdio interface means any LLM agent or orchestration framework can drive it without a browser, without a GUI, and without custom integrations.

Use cases:

• Give your AI agent the ability to read and write spreadsheet data as a tool action
• Wire it into MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to expose spreadsheet operations to Claude, GPT, or any tool-use capable model
• Use it in LangChain, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI pipelines to ground agents in real tabular data
• Let LLMs generate --script files and execute multi-step spreadsheet transformations autonomously

# An LLM agent can generate and run this in one shot
zs-cli --script agent_generated_pipeline.txt

What Can You Do With Zoho Sheet CLI?

| Task | Example | |------|---------| | Read a cell | cell get A1 | | Write a value or formula | cell set B2 --formula "=SUM(B3:B100)" | | Export to CSV | save --as output.csv | | Run a script of commands | zs-cli --script pipeline.txt | | Manage sheets | worksheet add "Q3 Report" | | Find & replace data | replace "Old Co" "New Co" | | Sort a data range | sort A1:D100 A |

Perfect For

• Data engineers automating ETL pipelines that touch spreadsheets
• DevOps teams generating or validating reports in CI/CD
• AI/LLM builders giving agents structured access to spreadsheet data
• Analysts who live in the terminal and don't want to open a GUI
• Developers building tools that read or write spreadsheet data
• Anyone who needs to automate repetitive spreadsheet work

Installation

npm install -g @zohocorporation/zs-cli

Agent Skill

If you're using Zoho Sheet CLI with an AI agent (e.g. Claude, Copilot, or any tool-use capable LLM), use the official Zoho Sheet CLI Agent Skill to ground your agent's spreadsheet operations in verified, up-to-date CLI usage patterns.

Other package managers (pip, Homebrew) coming soon.