Agents keep silently corrupting Office files, so this dev open-sourced Paper Office to fix it
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-24
Developer @bertgodel points out that AI agents editing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files rely on legacy Python packages, hit API gaps, and fall back to raw OOXML manipulation — producing silent corruptions. The team has open-sourced Paper Office to give agents a reliable way to edit Office documents without these pitfalls.
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