Office Desk

Guarded Word, PowerPoint and Excel editing: tracked Word changes and comments, slide and deck edits, and Excel edits with LibreOffice recalc. Every write gets a backup and a revertible receipt, and you review it all on a Desk page in the Desktop app. Settings are in Settings > Plugins.

Good to know before installing

Reads any Office file the agent is pointed at but writes only inside folders the user puts on the Desk (backups and receipts live in the plugin's own data dir). xlsx_recalc runs the user's installed LibreOffice (soffice, headless) on a temporary copy. The Desk page reads the session store read-only to show a workstream's chat. No network calls, telemetry, credentials or background processes. Depends on the paper-docx, paper-pptx and paper-xlsx forks. They provide the docx, pptx and openpyxl import names, so they must not share an environment with python-docx, python-pptx or openpyxl.

From the plugin's catalog listing.

How to install

Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.
hermes plugins install office-desk
Said no? Turn it on later:
hermes plugins enable office-desk
Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see Full setup & settings. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide (opens in a new tab).

Category: Memory & notes · Work & business
Maintained by: DECRUX9812 (Community)
Needs: No API keys declared
Adds tools: office_desk office_inspect office_search docx_tracked_edit docx_comment docx_redline_accept_reject pptx_inspect_formats pptx_edit_shape pptx_compose_decks pptx_diff xlsx_edit xlsx_recalc xlsx_diff office_receipt
Version: 0.1.1
In the catalog: 2026-10-20
GitHub stars: 1

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