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Microsoft Office MCP Server

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Microsoft Office runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 647 installs a week from npm. Last commit 7 Nov 2026.

Microsoft Office MCP server: read and edit Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint files

Installs per day peak 286 · avg 118 · +123% w/w
a month agotoday
1 647
Installs / week
npm · @mindstone/mcp-server-office
14
Stars
2 open issues
7 Nov 2026
Last commit
1 release in 90 days
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License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Microsoft Office every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-server-office -e 'MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE=<MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE>' -- npx -y @mindstone/mcp-server-office
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-office": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-office"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE": "<MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE>"
      }
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-server-office]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@mindstone/mcp-server-office"]
env = { MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE = "<MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE>" }
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-office": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-office"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE": "<MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE>"
      }
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-server-office": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mindstone/mcp-server-office"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE": "<MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE> (Absolute path to sidecar state file (host-managed; sidecar writes port + token here)). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_DISABLE (Kill-switch — set to 1 to refuse to spawn or talk to the sidecar), REBEL_DISABLE_OFFICE_SIDECAR (DEPRECATED legacy alias for MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_DISABLE — still honored for backward compatibility with v0.1.1 operator-set kill-switches; will be removed in a future major version. Use MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_DISABLE instead), MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE_DIR (Sidecar state directory (certs, per-app manifests). Normally derived from MCP_OFFICE_SIDECAR_STATE; hosts managing the sidecar lifecycle directly can override), MCP_OFFICE_ADDIN_DIR (Absolute path to the built add-in static files. Defaults to the package's dist/addin/ directory).

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Microsoft Office — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Microsoft Office?
Microsoft Office runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @mindstone/mcp-server-office was installed 1 647 times last week.
How do I connect Microsoft Office?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @mindstone/mcp-server-office straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Microsoft Office?
The npm package @mindstone/mcp-server-office was installed 1 647 times in the last week. Week over week that is +123%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Microsoft Office open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript, 14 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.