Give a Spreadsheet Agent a Response Budget, Not Just a Cell-Range Argument
Medical-Cow289 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A hands-on guide to designing tool interfaces for sheet-reading agents with Univer CLI: enforce row/byte budgets in the wrapper rather than relying on range arguments, return structured metadata (file version, addresses, hit/returned counts, continuation points), let the agent request follow-up context, and test against real workbook sizes to verify bounded responses still answer correctly.
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