📄 MCP Office Documents Server
Let your AI assistant create professional Office documents — PowerPoint, Word, Excel, emails & XML — with a single prompt.
💡 What is this?
This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that runs in Docker and gives AI assistants (like Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client) the ability to generate real Office files on demand.
Just ask your AI to "create a sales presentation" or "draft a welcome email" — and it will produce a ready-to-use file for you.
No coding required. Install, connect, and start creating.
✨ Features at a Glance
| Document Type | Tool | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| 📊 PowerPoint | create_powerpoint_presentation | Typed slide schema (14 slide types incl. KPI, timeline, agenda, free-form blank) · Outline-pane sections · Markdown bullet bodies · Tables, category charts & XY scatter · Inline & data-URI images · Theme colours · Autofit with overflow warnings · Proofing language · 4:3 or 16:9 · Custom templates |
| 📝 Word | create_word_from_markdown | Write in Markdown, get a .docx · Headings, lists (with auto-restart), tables, links, images, block quotes, page breaks & text alignment · Superscript, subscript, underline & highlighted text · Table column alignment, borderless tables, proportional widths & multi-paragraph cells · Headers/footers with page numbers · Table of Contents · Custom style mapping & per-block style tags |
| 📈 Excel | create_excel_from_markdown | Markdown tables → .xlsx · Multiple sheets · Formulas with table-relative & cross-sheet references · Column data types · Freeze panes & auto-filter · Column alignment |
create_email_draft | HTML email drafts (.eml) · Subject, recipients, priority, language | |
| 🗂️ XML | create_xml_file | Well-formed XML files · Auto-validates & adds XML declaration if missing |
All tools accept an optional file_name parameter. When provided, the output file will use that name (without extension) instead of a randomly generated identifier.
All tools also accept an optional add_unique_prefix parameter. Left unset, it follows the storage backend: true for LOCAL/S3/GCS/AZURE/MINIO, where an 8-character UUID prefix prevents collisions in shared storage (e.g., ff8ae81d_My_Report.docx), and false for LibreChat, which adds its own UUID prefix during file storage. Set it explicitly to override — false gives clean filenames (e.g., My_Report.docx).
Dynamic templates:
- 📧 Reusable Email Templates — Define parameterized email layouts in YAML. Each becomes its own tool with typed arguments (e.g.,
first_name,promo_code). - 📝 Reusable Word Templates — Create
.docxfiles with{{placeholders}}. Each template becomes an AI tool. Placeholders support full Markdown.
Output options:
- Local — Files saved to the
output/folder - Cloud — Upload to S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, or MinIO and get a time-limited download link
🚀 Quick Start
1. Get the compose file
curl -L -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ForLegalAI/mcp-ms-office-documents/master/docker-compose.yml
curl -L -o .env.example https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ForLegalAI/mcp-ms-office-documents/master/.env.example
Already cloned the repo? Skip this step — both files are already there.
2. Set up your environment
cp .env.example .env
The defaults work out of the box — files are saved locally to output/.
3. Start the server
docker compose up -d
✅ Done! Your MCP endpoint is ready at http://localhost:8958/mcp. Point your client at it — snippets for Claude Desktop, LibreChat and Cursor are in Connecting an AI client.
⚙️ Configuration
Everything is set through environment variables in .env. The ones most deployments touch:
| Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
API_KEY | Require an API key on every request (Bearer, plain Authorization, or x-api-key) | (disabled) |
UPLOAD_STRATEGY | Where files go: LOCAL, S3, GCS, AZURE, MINIO, LIBRECHAT | LOCAL |
SIGNED_URL_EXPIRES_IN | Lifetime of cloud download links, in seconds | 3600 |
ADMIN_ENABLED | Turn on the browser UI for managing templates | (off) |
DEBUG | Debug-level logging | (off) |
The full list, including the per-backend credentials, thread-pool and multi-replica settings, is in Configuration. Deployment notes (volumes, health probes, running without Docker, more than one replica) are in Deployment.
📚 Documentation
Using the tools
- Markdown reference — everything the Word and Excel tools accept: headings, lists with restart rules, tables and directives, inline formatting, formulas with table-relative and cross-sheet references, column types, cell styling.
- PowerPoint slide reference — the fourteen slide types and their fields, bodies in Markdown, warnings, compatibility notes.
- Templates — drop in your own Word, PowerPoint, email and Excel templates; register several PowerPoint designs by name; turn a Word or email file with
{{placeholders}}into a tool of its own. - Template Admin UI — do all of that from the browser, no YAML, no restart.
- Connecting an AI client
Working on the code
- Architecture, one page per tool under docs/development/tools/, and how-tos for adding a tool or a storage backend.
- CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, checks and conventions; AGENTS.md for the rules coding agents follow; SECURITY.md for what the server protects.
The index is at docs/README.md.
🤝 Contributing
Contributions are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md, then fork, branch, and open a pull request. Bug reports, feature ideas and documentation fixes are all appreciated — open an issue to start a discussion.
📄 License
MIT — see LICENSE.
