StudioOpen-source desktop agent SurfSense edits your Word, PDF and Excel files
Original title: An open-source agent that edits your Word, PDF and Excel files
A maintainer of SurfSense presents the Apache-2.0 open-source desktop app as a NotebookLM with an agent, working with local models, any OpenAI-compatible API, or a ChatGPT/Claude plan. The agent searches and cites documents, writes Word, PDF, slides, spreadsheets and web pages, edits Word via tracked changes and comments, updates Excel formulas and fills PDF forms without touching originals; it supports MCP plugins like Notion and DeepWiki and can use the user's own Claude Code. The architecture disables shell and subagents, uses documents-as-scripts with preview self-review, and requires tool calling plus at least a 32K context for agent mode.
The maintainer details design choices like documents-as-scripts, dual engines, and approval gating, inviting feedback that helps readers assess the agent architecture's transferability.
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