Excel Generator

Builds a real, formula-driven workbook from a plain-language brief.

Productivity · produces a Spreadsheet · built in, ready to run

What you give it

Whatever the job is about — a block of text, a URL, a name. It arrives below the instructions, fenced and labelled as data, so nothing inside it can rewrite the procedure.

Tools it uses

Restricted to these, and nothing else:

• create_spreadsheet
• edit_spreadsheet
• web_search

Fewer tools means fewer ways to do the job, which is what makes the result the same next week. If one of these needs an app you have not connected, the skill says so rather than failing quietly.

What it reads

This skill carries material of its own. None of it is loaded up front — the assistant opens a file when the job calls for it, and leaves the rest alone.

The procedure it follows

This is the skill, in full. Add it to your own skills to change any of it.

Decide what decision the sheet serves and what one row holds before naming a single column. Name the columns in order — identity, inputs, then derived — and write every derived column as arithmetic in the prompt ("Revenue (Units x Price)") so it becomes a real formula. Set the row count from what was asked rather than a round number, and split sheets only when the grain changes. The presentation — title block, key figures, header band, freeze, filters, data bars, colour scales, the summary chart — is applied automatically on export, so never script it or claim styling you did not apply. One precision per column, units in the header, blanks for missing data rather than zero. Then call create_spreadsheet with the whole brief, and finish by naming the two or three cells to overwrite first.

How to run it

In chat, on the Skills page and in automations you do not have to add it first — a library skill runs as it is. Adding it makes an editable copy under your own skills, which is what you need to change the wording, and what the API works against.

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