diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index daa96f2..10f0640 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     # clients, so one that moves changes the CLI's surface. Each release re-pins
     # deliberately, against the specs vendored in `src/unstract_cli/specs`.
     "unstract-client==1.7.1",
-    "llmwhisperer-client==2.9.1",
+    "llmwhisperer-client==2.10.0",
     # Both clients pull this in, but the CLI imports its exception classes
     # directly to classify a failure, so it names the dependency itself.
     "requests>=2.32.3",
diff --git a/src/unstract_cli/specs/llmwhisperer.json b/src/unstract_cli/specs/llmwhisperer.json
index 1cd64d2..1664cd9 100644
--- a/src/unstract_cli/specs/llmwhisperer.json
+++ b/src/unstract_cli/specs/llmwhisperer.json
@@ -1589,6 +1589,15 @@
             },
             "x-internal": true
           },
+          {
+            "in": "query",
+            "name": "include_cell_borders",
+            "required": false,
+            "schema": {
+              "default": true,
+              "type": "boolean"
+            }
+          },
           {
             "in": "query",
             "name": "include_line_confidence",
diff --git a/src/unstract_cli/specs/provenance.json b/src/unstract_cli/specs/provenance.json
index 7304379..761c8a4 100644
--- a/src/unstract_cli/specs/provenance.json
+++ b/src/unstract_cli/specs/provenance.json
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
     "sha256": "c0de3a14254600f436483561ebb737feac4023fdef2fd46d6abf15dcd2182ad9"
   },
   "llmwhisperer.json": {
-    "client": "llmwhisperer-client==2.9.1",
+    "client": "llmwhisperer-client==2.10.0",
     "repo": "https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract-llm-whisperer",
-    "commit": "fa6cf651a594227f2249dfe0990f80f1ff780398",
+    "commit": "9fe7085b44da6ca37e635fba3ab082c725ef8aef",
     "path": "specs/llmwhisperer.json",
-    "sha256": "c015d035b9e06f58e80aabdb5190fbb582dc1b4b8ee48c3a6924fe4392edc650"
+    "sha256": "4d758a3e3a8dbe972c7031bf5db813450c8855ca112fbc5bc1d42ac296a44d34"
   }
 }
diff --git a/tests/derived_flags.json b/tests/derived_flags.json
index 0ce4b59..ce2456f 100644
--- a/tests/derived_flags.json
+++ b/tests/derived_flags.json
@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@
       "choices": [],
       "short": null
     },
+    "--include-cell-borders": {
+      "name": "include_cell_borders",
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "default": null,
+      "description": "Whether an Excel workbook's own cell borders are drawn into the extracted text as box-drawing characters. Turning it off drops every border, leaving columns aligned and no cell value lost, which costs fewer tokens downstream. This keys off the uploaded file type, not the mode: it applies to any XLS or XLSX upload whatever mode was requested, the default \"form\" mode included, and is ignored for every other kind of document.",
+      "array": false,
+      "nullable": false,
+      "required": false,
+      "choices": [],
+      "short": null
+    },
     "--include-line-confidence": {
       "name": "include_line_confidence",
       "type": "boolean",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 0057c00..410dd7a 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "llmwhisperer-client"
-version = "2.9.1"
+version = "2.10.0"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "attrs" },
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "requests" },
     { name = "tenacity" },
 ]
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+sdist = { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9a/60/b4ba32f16363b3dfa6e37716db0d0e52efac41bebce1043a0ff690c65e0c/llmwhisperer_client-2.10.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7b4f7921dcba8a51cd4315cfae425aeb14bd24a1935df5f27a406a86be3d4765", size = 3320161, upload-time = "2026-10-27T06:15:26.764Z" }
 wheels = [
-    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/aa/41/2f221e4ac210dd8a9307849cf0ac35ff87cdd8b344594524d15a52c8f115/llmwhisperer_client-2.9.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9e9ad402f16562da4dad9d406e06e6c42c077bf8846670040f40e8605c5c82e4", size = 69186, upload-time = "2026-09-18T10:56:05.114Z" },
+    { url = "https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/61/3d/cbb4cff42412117393c2b49c06f4bd4857322ac3310fe7d7ebf4893b54f2/llmwhisperer_client-2.10.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:e60e4877f021197dbb1b87624876cc607e99eedc8239c9ec563fafc645b66407", size = 69471, upload-time = "2026-10-27T06:15:25.636Z" },
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ dev = [
 [package.metadata]
 requires-dist = [
     { name = "click", specifier = ">=8.1,<9" },
-    { name = "llmwhisperer-client", specifier = "==2.9.1" },
+    { name = "llmwhisperer-client", specifier = "==2.10.0" },
     { name = "pytest", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = ">=8.0" },
     { name = "pyyaml", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = ">=6.0" },
     { name = "requests", specifier = ">=2.32.3" },