# Text Spreadsheet (pypi · text-spreadsheet)

Let your AI read a whole spreadsheet as tab-separated text — Excel, ODS, SQLite and more

- Trust score: 43/100 (low)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-22

## Components

- pypi · `text-spreadsheet`: 43/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/demos-ra-text-spreadsheet/text-spreadsheet.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/demos-ra-text-spreadsheet/text-spreadsheet)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `text-spreadsheet`
- Version: `0.2.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-22.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs setuptools.build_meta at install time, a recognised native-build step with no shell scripting around it.
  - 1 of 31 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 6/100
  - Repository check failed: no source repository is declared.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - License check failed: no license is declared.
  - Actively maintained (last published 0 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 61/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 271 tokens (~271/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability check failed: the tool surface changed between 0.1.2 and 0.2.0: 0 tool removals, 1 breaking changes, 0 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Text Spreadsheet MCP server?

Text Spreadsheet runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx text-spreadsheet. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add demos-ra-text-spreadsheet -- uvx text-spreadsheet
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "demos-ra-text-spreadsheet": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "text-spreadsheet"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "demos-ra-text-spreadsheet": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "text-spreadsheet"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add demos-ra-text-spreadsheet -- uvx text-spreadsheet
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "demos-ra-text-spreadsheet": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "text-spreadsheet"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add demos-ra-text-spreadsheet --command uvx --arg text-spreadsheet
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  demos-ra-text-spreadsheet:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["text-spreadsheet"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "demos-ra-text-spreadsheet": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "text-spreadsheet"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add demos-ra-text-spreadsheet -t stdio -c uvx -a text-spreadsheet
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "demos-ra-text-spreadsheet": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "text-spreadsheet"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-22 (score 43, −1)

- [security regression] Stability: unverified → fail
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 232 → 271
- [functional] Package version: 0.1.2 → 0.2.0

### 2026-09-21 (score 44)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `read` (~271 tokens)

Read a spreadsheet as text, every sheet at once.

Excel, ODS, CSV, SQLite, Parquet and Arrow files. With a path
alone, return a map of the file: its sheets, how many records each
holds, the columns of each, where each sheet's lines are, and what
the conversion left behind. Add an address to return that part of
the file instead.

The reply is tab-separated text: a tab between fields, a line break
between records, and a form feed before each sheet's name.

path -- the absolute path of the file to read
sheet -- which sheets, as 2, 1;3 or 1-3, counting from 1
rows -- which records of each sheet, written the same way
fields -- which fields of each record, written the same way

The path must be absolute. A file that cannot be read, an
extension this server has no format for, and an address the file
does not have are each refused rather than guessed.

A copy of the file is kept as MTSV under the cache directory, and
the map names where, so it can be read directly afterwards.

Input parameters:

- `fields`
- `path` (string, required)
- `rows`
- `sheet`

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/demos-ra-text-spreadsheet/text-spreadsheet#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-22: 43
- 2026-09-21: 44

## Common questions

### What is the Text Spreadsheet MCP server?

Text Spreadsheet is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.demos-ra/text-spreadsheet. Let your AI read a whole spreadsheet as tab-separated text, Excel, ODS, SQLite and more. This page covers its PyPI package (text-spreadsheet).

### Is the Text Spreadsheet MCP server safe to use?

Text Spreadsheet scores 43 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 22 September 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Text Spreadsheet MCP server expose?

Text Spreadsheet exposes 1 tool: read. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 271 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Text Spreadsheet MCP server still maintained?

Text Spreadsheet is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/text-spreadsheet/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/text-spreadsheet
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/demos-ra-text-spreadsheet/text-spreadsheet.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/demos-ra-text-spreadsheet/text-spreadsheet.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/demos-ra-text-spreadsheet/text-spreadsheet