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Vespper, a Y Combinator F24 startup, has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server aimed at letting AI agents reliably read and edit .docx files. The company says existing approaches—raw OOXML SDKs, opinionated MCP tools, or lossy Markdown/HTML round-tripping—break down on complex real-world Word documents used in legal, finance, and healthcare workflows.
A developer has released Paper Office, a suite of Python packages (paper-docx, paper-pptx, paper-xlsx) that let AI agents edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel files, building on the older python-docx, python-pptx and OpenPyxl libraries. In tests across five models and 61 tasks, Paper packages with guidance succeeded in 92.5% of trials, compared with 80.7% for the legacy libraries alone and 69.5% using Anthropic's Office skills, while agents resorted to editing raw file internals far less often (1.6% versus 78.7% and 50.5%).
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, bringing a set of Writer-focused enhancements. Key additions include automatic RTL text direction detection, a new baseline grid display option, fixed page line-spacing inside frames, and a new Paragraph Composer that balances word spacing across consecutive lines instead of using a simple greedy algorithm.