OpenDocBot

About OpenDocBot

Free the Office AI ecosystem. Bring your own LLM into Word, Excel and PowerPoint with OpenDocBot. Client-side, zero-proxy, no lock-in.

In the maker’s words

I got tired of the lock-in and black-box nature of AI inside MS Office. One vendor decides which models you can use, where your document data goes, and what the agent is actually allowed to do. And when it fails, you can't see the code or send a PR to add a feature you may need. Many people don't have that choice: they're forced to use these tools (MS Office) at work. For coding agents we already have open interfaces like OpenCode where you can bring your own key, swap providers and models, run local, inspect everything, etc. I thought "agentic Office" needs the same. So I built OpenDocBot: an agent that runs inside Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Bring your own provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama, or your own endpoint / custom gateway). It's client-side, so document data goes straight to the provider you configure, and the source is public so you can always aud…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: OpenDocBot – bring your own model to Word, Excel and PowerPoint5 points1 comments24 days ago