antonio-castellon/mcp-advanced-excel

Started the stdio MCP server (mcp-advanced-excel 1.30.0) and called tools/list; it returned excel_list_sheets, excel_overview, excel_inspect_layout, excel_read_table, excel_read_range, excel_write_csv.

cd <host-path> && git log -1 --format=%H 2>/dev/null; ls -la; cat README.md 2>/dev/null | head -200
cd <host-path> && ls .github/workflows 2>/dev/null; which python3 node npm uv pip3 2>&1; python3 --version
cd <host-path> && sed -n 200,400p README.md; cat .github/workflows/ci.yml | head -80; cat mcp.json; cat <host-path> | head -120; which uv uvx pip3; python3 -m venv --help >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo venv_ok
cd <host-path> && python3 -m venv <host-path> && <host-path> install -q --upgrade pip 2>&1 | tail -3; <host-path> install <host-path> 2>&1 | tail -5; echo rc=$?; ls <host-path> | grep -i excel
cd <host-path> && (sudo apt-get install -y -q python3.12-venv >/tmp/apt.log 2>&1 || (sudo apt-get update -q >/dev/null 2>&1 && sudo apt-get install -y -q python3.12-venv >>/tmp/apt.log 2>&1)); echo apt_rc=$?; rm -rf <host-path>; python3 -m venv <host-path> && <host-path> install -q <host-path> 2>&1 | tail -5; echo pip_rc=${PIPESTATUS[0]}; ls <host-path> | grep -i excel
cd <host-path> && ls -a; export EXCEL_ALLOWED_ROOTS=<host-path>; printf '%s\n' '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"smoke","version":"0"}}}' '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}' '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list"}' | timeout 20 <host-path> 2>/tmp/excel-stderr.log | python3 -c 'import sys,json
for l in sys.stdin:
    m=json.loads(l)
    if m.get("id")==2: print([t["name"] for t in m["result"]["tools"]])
    elif m.get("id")==1: print("init:", m["result"]["serverInfo"])'; echo rc=$?; head -c 500 /tmp/excel-stderr.log
cd <host-path> && rm -rf build && mkdir -p .coldpass && cat > .coldpass/probe.json <<'EOF'
{"kind":"mcp","argv":["<host-path>"}}
EOF
cat > .coldpass/report.json <<'EOF'
{"outcome":"working","operation":"Started the stdio MCP server (mcp-advanced-excel 1.30.0) and called tools/list; it returned excel_list_sheets, excel_overview, excel_inspect_layout, excel_read_table, excel_read_range, excel_write_csv.","operation_scope":"MCP start and tools/list only. No workbook was read: no sample .xlsx/.csv is in the repo, and reads need EXCEL_ALLOWED_ROOTS, which is set to the workspace. Write tool is disabled (EXCEL_ALLOW_WRITE unset). Unit/lint suites not run per task instructions.","steps":["Read README.md (Install, Configure, Tools sections)","python3 -m venv <host-path> (failed: ensurepip missing), then apt-get install python3.12-venv","python3 -m venv <host-path> && pip install <host-path> (installed non-editable to avoid writing into the source tree)","Ran mcp-advanced-excel over stdio with initialize, notifications/initialized, tools/list (EXCEL_ALLOWED_ROOTS=<host-path>)"],"deviations":["README Install documents 'pip install -e \".[dev]\"' from a checkout; used a non-editable install of the package without the [dev] extras, since test/lint tooling is out of scope for this smoke run.","README 'python -m venv' failed on the guest because python3.12-venv was not installed; installed it with apt-get, as the error message instructed.","pip install from the source directory created a build/ directory in the workspace; removed it."],"stuck_step":null,"main_blocker":null,"suggested_fix":null}
EOF
<env-var>=<host-path> python3 -I <host-path> --validate; echo rc=$?