ShortcutXL

An AI agent that lives on your computer and has Excel superpowers. Made by the Shortcut team.

Install

1. Open Command Prompt or PowerShell and install Node.js

winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS

2. Install ShortcutXL

npm install -g shortcutxl

3. Launch ShortcutXL

Type shortcut in your terminal:

shortcut

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with Excel 2016+ (64-bit)
• Node.js >= 20

Capabilities

• Data lives locally — Workbooks, files, and skills stay on your machine.
• Multi-workbook operations — Read and write across multiple open workbooks simultaneously.
• Deep feature control — Pivots, charts, sensitivity tables, iterative recalculations, and more.
• VBA access — Read, write, and run macros. Create VBA modules programmatically.
• File system access — Save to arbitrary paths, open files from disk, export PDFs.
• Extensible — Integrate any API or data source by adding a skill file or a custom tool extension.
• User-defined functions (UDFs) — Custom Excel formulas powered by Python for live data, calculations, or database queries.
• External data connections — ODBC, OLE DB, QueryTables, Power Query.