Comment by ksri

I am working on a declarative CLI for google docs/sheets/slides etc. The general idea is a "pull" command that converts the proprietary document into a local files like tsv or xml. The agent (claude code) then simply edits these files in place and calls "push". The library then figures out the diff and applies only the diff, taking care to preserve formatting and comments.

The hypothesis is that llms are better off getting the "big picture" by reading local files. They can then spend tokens to edit the document as per the business needs rather than spending tokens to figure out how to edit the document.

Another aspect is the security model. Extrasuite assigns a permission-less service account per employee. The agent gets this service account to make API calls. This means the agent only gets access to documents explicitly shared with it, and any changes it makes show up in version history separate from the user's changes.

Early release can be found over here - https://github.com/think41/extrasuite.