Named for Milton Waddams, who was relocated to the basement with
boxes of legacy documents. He handles the .doc and .xls files from
1997 that nobody else wants to touch.
- Rename package from mcp-office-tools to mcwaddams
- Update author to Ryan Malloy
- Update all imports and references
- Add Office Space themed README narrative
- All 53 tests passing
- Create @resolve_field_defaults decorator to handle Pydantic FieldInfo
objects when tools are called directly (outside MCP framework)
- Create @handle_office_errors decorator for consistent error wrapping
- Apply decorators to Excel and Word mixins, removing ~100 lines of
boilerplate code
- Fix Excel formula extraction performance: load workbooks once before
loop instead of per-cell (100x faster with calculated values)
- Update test suite to use correct mock patch paths (patch where names
are looked up, not where defined)
- Add torture_test.py for real document validation
- Comprehensive Microsoft Office document processing server
- Support for Word (.docx, .doc), Excel (.xlsx, .xls), PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt), CSV
- 6 universal tools: extract_text, extract_images, extract_metadata, detect_office_format, analyze_document_health, get_supported_formats
- Multi-library fallback system for robust processing
- URL support with intelligent caching
- Legacy Office format support (97-2003)
- FastMCP integration with async architecture
- Production ready with comprehensive documentation
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