🚰 KitchenSink4Word Community Edition

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Edit Word documents with your AI assistant: tracked changes, citations, templates and live edits in Word.

Edit real Word documents from Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI or any other MCP client that runs local tools. KitchenSink4Word connects your assistant to .docx files on Windows, and can edit a document while it is open in Microsoft Word so you see the changes land. Files are processed on your computer; the only thing that leaves it is what your AI app sends to its own provider. The Community edition is free under the AGPL. The Business edition adds a Windows installer, a signed update channel, a license your company can approve and support.

Works on: Windows. File editing works without Microsoft Word; live editing and the Word-powered features need Word installed.

Install

Pick the route for your AI app. The commands go in PowerShell on Windows or a terminal on macOS and Linux, not into an AI chat. The package routes need Python 3.12 or newer.

Claude Desktop

Install uv, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. Download the .mcpb file from KitchenSink4Word releases. In Claude Desktop open Settings, then Extensions, then Advanced settings, then Install extension, and choose the file. The bundle fetches the Python package the first time it starts, so the first launch needs a network connection. Restart your session and check that the tools show as connected.

Claude Code or Codex CLI

Install uv, then run the line for your app and restart your session:

claude mcp add word -s user -- uvx kitchensink4word

codex mcp add word -- uvx kitchensink4word

Any other local MCP client

Use uvx as the command and kitchensink4word as its argument, or install the package and use kitchensink4word as the server command:

pip install kitchensink4word

Then follow your client's guide for adding a local MCP server. Installing the package on its own does not connect it to an AI app.

Business edition

Compare the editions on the pricing page. Already purchased? Your Windows installer and download link are in your license portal.

What it can do

110 document tools, plus the pack on/off controls.

• Revise a report while it stays open in Word, with edits you can watch.
• Read, accept and reject tracked changes, and work through reviewer comments.
• Fill a template or assemble chapters into one manuscript.
• Build and format tables, lists, headings and page layouts.
• Insert citations, bibliographies, footnotes and cross-references.
• Find formatting, accessibility and structure problems before handoff.
• Compare documents, prepare mail merges and redact selected text.
• Import or export PDF through Word when it is installed.

What is available depends on the packs you enable and the applications installed. The full tool reference is below.

Business edition

Need a license your company can approve and a setup someone supports? The Business edition pairs these tools with a Windows installer, a signed update channel and support under the Business terms. Update checks tell you when a covered release is available; nothing installs on its own. Compare the options on the pricing page. The Community edition stays free under the AGPL, including business use that meets its terms.

Privacy Policy

The tools run on your computer, and KitchenSink4AI receives no documents and no usage data from them. Your AI app may send prompts, file contents and tool results to its own provider under that app's settings and terms. Installing downloads packages, and the Community version check contacts PyPI unless you disable it; those requests carry connection details such as your network address and never your documents. Cloud folders and backups follow their own settings. The Privacy Policy covers the product, purchases and support records.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft and Word are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

What the 222 operations cover

The everyday core covers text and formatting, tables (including merge-aware column insert/delete and one-call bulk cell edits), footnotes and endnotes (full lifecycle plus footnote and endnote conversion), TOC and caption lists, headers, footers, and sections, images, bulleted and numbered lists, content controls and fields, threaded comments, and tracked changes (read, accept and reject by author, and writing edits as tracked changes). Beyond that the surface spans equations (LaTeX to Word math), native charts, document assembly (chapter files into one manuscript), Zotero library citations, publication style conversion (8 styles, beta), review-cycle analytics, workflow suites (mail merge, batch operations, redaction, compliance and accessibility audits and fixes, submission prep, front matter, diagnostics), and Word-COM-backed document compare, field refresh, PDF export and import, and open-clean validation on Windows.

What makes it different

• Merge-aware table column operations. modify_table_structure inserts and deletes columns correctly through horizontally and vertically merged cells (gridSpan shrinks, vMerge chains re-root). At the time of writing, no other public Word MCP has this.
• Bulk-first API. Editing 20 cells is ONE set_cells call with a payload, not 20 round-trips.
• Tracked-change writing. track=True, author="Jane" on edit tools produces real Word revisions the recipient can accept or reject, proven round-trip against the server's own revision engine.
• Document compare. com_multi_document(action="compare") produces a Word-native redline between two versions of a document.
• Never corrupts. Atomic saves (temp file, structural validation, replace), automatic slot backups before every mutation, byte-identical passthrough of anything not being edited (equations, textboxes, content controls survive untouched), and clean typed errors: a file open in Word is refused with a message, not a hang.
• Fragmented-run safe. Find and replace works across Word's arbitrarily split runs while preserving per-character formatting, with a ReDoS timeout guard on user regex and an optional blast-radius limit.

Why this one (the capability comparison)

Every public Word MCP server was surveyed before building this. The honest comparison is about what each one can do, not how many names it has:

Capability survey compiled from public repositories, documentation, and issue trackers. Corrections welcome: open an issue.

The packs

Numbers below come straight from scripts/measure_surface.py, never hand-counted, and every one counts the whole tools/list entry a client receives rather than the description and schema alone. The lite core loads at startup; the seven packs load on demand.