CSV Editor

CSV Editor - AI-Powered CSV Processing via MCP

Transform how AI assistants work with CSV data. CSV Editor is a high-performance MCP server that gives Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants powerful data manipulation capabilities through simple commands.

🎯 Why CSV Editor?

The Problem

AI assistants struggle with complex data operations - they can read files but lack tools for filtering, transforming, analyzing, and validating CSV data efficiently.

The Solution

CSV Editor bridges this gap by providing AI assistants with 40+ specialized tools for CSV operations, turning them into powerful data analysts that can:

Clean messy datasets in seconds
Perform complex statistical analysis
Validate data quality automatically
Transform data with natural language commands
Track all changes with undo/redo capabilities

Key Differentiators

Feature	CSV Editor	Traditional Tools
AI Integration	Native MCP protocol	Manual operations
Auto-Save	Automatic with strategies	Manual save required
History Tracking	Full undo/redo with snapshots	Limited or none
Session Management	Multi-user isolated sessions	Single user
Data Validation	Built-in quality scoring	Separate tools needed
Performance	Handles GB+ files with chunking	Memory limitations

⚡ Quick Demo

# Your AI assistant can now do this:
"Load the sales data and remove duplicates"
"Filter for Q4 2024 transactions over $10,000"  
"Calculate correlation between price and quantity"
"Fill missing values with the median"
"Export as Excel with the analysis"

# All with automatic history tracking and undo capability!

🚀 Quick Start (2 minutes)

Installing via Smithery

To install csv-editor for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @santoshray02/csv-editor --client claude

Fastest Installation (Recommended)

# Install uv if needed (one-time setup)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Clone and run
git clone https://github.com/santoshray02/csv-editor.git
cd csv-editor
uv sync
uv run csv-editor

Configure Your AI Assistant

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "csv-editor": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["tool", "run", "csv-editor"],
      "env": {
        "CSV_MAX_FILE_SIZE": "1073741824"
      }
    }
  }
}

See MCP_CONFIG.md for detailed configuration.

💡 Real-World Use Cases

📊 Data Analyst Workflow

# Morning: Load yesterday's data
session = load_csv("daily_sales.csv")

# Clean: Remove duplicates and fix types
remove_duplicates(session_id)
change_column_type("date", "datetime")
fill_missing_values(strategy="median", columns=["revenue"])

# Analyze: Get insights
get_statistics(columns=["revenue", "quantity"])
detect_outliers(method="iqr", threshold=1.5)
get_correlation_matrix(min_correlation=0.5)

# Report: Export cleaned data
export_csv(format="excel", file_path="clean_sales.xlsx")

🏭 ETL Pipeline

# Extract from multiple sources
load_csv_from_url("https://api.example.com/data.csv")

# Transform with complex operations
filter_rows(conditions=[
    {"column": "status", "operator": "==", "value": "active"},
    {"column": "amount", "operator": ">", "value": 1000}
])
add_column(name="quarter", formula="Q{(month-1)//3 + 1}")
group_by_aggregate(group_by=["quarter"], aggregations={
    "amount": ["sum", "mean"],
    "customer_id": "count"
})

# Load to different formats
export_csv(format="parquet")  # For data warehouse
export_csv(format="json")     # For API

🔍 Data Quality Assurance

# Validate incoming data
validate_schema(schema={
    "customer_id": {"type": "integer", "required": True},
    "email": {"type": "string", "pattern": r"^[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+$"},
    "age": {"type": "integer", "min": 0, "max": 120}
})

# Quality scoring
quality_report = check_data_quality()
# Returns: overall_score, missing_data%, duplicates, outliers

# Anomaly detection
anomalies = find_anomalies(methods=["statistical", "pattern"])

🎨 Core Features

Data Operations

Load & Export: CSV, JSON, Excel, Parquet, HTML, Markdown
Transform: Filter, sort, group, pivot, join
Clean: Remove duplicates, handle missing values, fix types
Calculate: Add computed columns, aggregations

Analysis Tools

Statistics: Descriptive stats, correlations, distributions
Outliers: IQR, Z-score, custom thresholds
Profiling: Complete data quality reports
Validation: Schema checking, quality scoring

Productivity Features

Auto-Save: Never lose work with configurable strategies
History: Full undo/redo with operation tracking
Sessions: Multi-user support with isolation
Performance: Stream processing for large files

📚 Available Tools

I/O Operations

load_csv - Load from file
load_csv_from_url - Load from URL
load_csv_from_content - Load from string
export_csv - Export to various formats
get_session_info - Session details
list_sessions - Active sessions
close_session - Cleanup

Data Manipulation

filter_rows - Complex filtering
sort_data - Multi-column sort
select_columns - Column selection
rename_columns - Rename columns
add_column - Add computed columns
remove_columns - Remove columns
update_column - Update values
change_column_type - Type conversion
fill_missing_values - Handle nulls
remove_duplicates - Deduplicate

Analysis

get_statistics - Statistical summary
get_column_statistics - Column stats
get_correlation_matrix - Correlations
group_by_aggregate - Group operations
get_value_counts - Frequency counts
detect_outliers - Find outliers
profile_data - Data profiling

Validation

validate_schema - Schema validation
check_data_quality - Quality metrics
find_anomalies - Anomaly detection

Auto-Save & History

configure_auto_save - Setup auto-save
get_auto_save_status - Check status
undo / redo - Navigate history
get_history - View operations
restore_to_operation - Time travel

⚙️ Configuration

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
`CSV_MAX_FILE_SIZE`	1GB	Maximum file size
`CSV_SESSION_TIMEOUT`	3600s	Session timeout
`CSV_CHUNK_SIZE`	10000	Processing chunk size
`CSV_AUTO_SAVE`	true	Enable auto-save

Auto-Save Strategies

CSV Editor automatically saves your work with configurable strategies:

Overwrite (default) - Update original file
Backup - Create timestamped backups
Versioned - Maintain version history
Custom - Save to specified location

# Configure auto-save
configure_auto_save(
    strategy="backup",
    backup_dir="/backups",
    max_backups=10
)

🛠️ Advanced Installation Options

Using pip

git clone https://github.com/santoshray02/csv-editor.git
cd csv-editor
pip install -e .

Using pipx (Global)

pipx install git+https://github.com/santoshray02/csv-editor.git

From GitHub (Recommended)

# Install latest version
pip install git+https://github.com/santoshray02/csv-editor.git

# Or using uv
uv pip install git+https://github.com/santoshray02/csv-editor.git

# Install specific version
pip install git+https://github.com/santoshray02/csv-editor.git@v1.0.1

🧪 Development

Running Tests

uv run test           # Run tests
uv run test-cov       # With coverage
uv run all-checks     # Format, lint, type-check, test

Project Structure

csv-editor/
├── src/csv_editor/   # Core implementation
│   ├── tools/        # MCP tool implementations
│   ├── models/       # Data models
│   └── server.py     # MCP server
├── tests/            # Test suite
├── examples/         # Usage examples
└── docs/            # Documentation

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Quick Contribution Guide

Fork the repository
Create a feature branch
Make your changes with tests
Run uv run all-checks
Submit a pull request

📈 Roadmap

SQL query interface
Real-time collaboration
Advanced visualizations
Machine learning integrations
Cloud storage support
Performance optimizations for 10GB+ files

💬 Support

Issues: GitHub Issues
Discussions: GitHub Discussions
Documentation: Wiki

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file

🙏 Acknowledgments

Built with:

FastMCP - Fast Model Context Protocol
Pandas - Data manipulation
NumPy - Numerical computing

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HTTP connection URL

security – no known vulnerabilities

license - permissive license

quality - confirmed to work

How are these scores calculated?

hybrid server

The server is able to function both locally and remotely, depending on the configuration or use case.

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Comprehensive CSV processing MCP server with 40+ operations for data manipulation, analysis, and validation. Features auto-save, undo/redo, and handles GB+ files

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