diff --git a/crates/engine/src/plugins.rs b/crates/engine/src/plugins.rs
index f1c4075e..ce5aa0c6 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/plugins.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/plugins.rs
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ const DENIED: &[&str] = &[
     "edit.redo",
     "edit.repeat",
     "command.batch",
+    // Network sessions, online files and their recovery copies on disk.
+    "collab.",
+    // Opens files in new windows.
+    "window.",
     "view.theme",
 ];
 /// Read-only exceptions to [`DENIED`].
@@ -128,6 +132,17 @@ fn refusal(m: &Manifest, command: &str, params: &Value) -> Option<String> {
     if command == "image.place" && get(params, "path").is_some() {
         return Some("plugins can't read files: pass the image as `data`".into());
     }
+    // `path` here is a file on disk (elsewhere it is a vector path or an action's place).
+    if matches!(command, "variable.export" | "codeConnect.export" | "component.playground") && get(params, "path").is_some() {
+        return Some("plugins can't write files: leave out `path` to get the result back".into());
+    }
+    if command == "codeConnect.import" && get(params, "path").is_some() {
+        return Some("plugins can't read files: pass the connections as `json`".into());
+    }
+    // Variables JSON may be given as a path: only objects and JSON text for plugins.
+    if command == "variable.import" && get(params, "variables").and_then(Value::as_str).is_some_and(|t| !t.trim_start().starts_with('{')) {
+        return Some("plugins can't read files: pass the variables JSON itself".into());
+    }
     if !m.permissions.allows(command) {
         return Some(format!("`{command}` isn't in the commands {} asked permission for", m.name));
     }
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/plugins_tests.rs b/crates/engine/src/plugins_tests.rs
index 102d675a..657b6825 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/plugins_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/plugins_tests.rs
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ fn files_dialogs_history_and_plugins_are_off_limits() {
         ("plugin.remove", json!({"id": "org.test.deny"})),
         ("edit.undo", json!({})),
         ("command.batch", json!({"commands": [{"command": "file.saveAs", "params": {"path": target}}]})),
+        ("variable.export", json!({"format": "css", "path": target})),
+        ("codeConnect.export", json!({"path": target})),
+        ("codeConnect.import", json!({"path": "/etc/passwd"})),
+        ("component.playground", json!({"id": a, "path": target})),
+        ("variable.import", json!({"variables": "/etc/passwd"})),
+        ("collab.recoverFile", json!({"path": "copy.figcraft", "file": "x", "session": 1, "client": 1, "seq": 0})),
+        ("window.new", json!({"path": "C:/Windows/win.ini"})),
         ("doc.switch", json!({"index": 0})),
         ("pref.keepTool", json!({})),
         // Without a name it would open inline renaming in the layers panel: a UI request.
diff --git a/docs/plugins.md b/docs/plugins.md
index 6f23e6ec..5867bd25 100644
--- a/docs/plugins.md
+++ b/docs/plugins.md
@@ -237,7 +237,11 @@ Whatever its manifest says, FigCraft refuses these calls (the plugin gets the re
 it can handle):
 
 - files and the app: `file.*`, `app.*`, `pref.*`, `help.*`, `library.add`, `libraries.*`,
-  `image.place` with a `path` (pass the image as base64 `data` instead), `view.theme*`;
+  `image.place` with a `path` (pass the image as base64 `data` instead), `variable.export`,
+  `codeConnect.export` and `component.playground` with a `path` (leave it out to get the result
+  back), `codeConnect.import` with a `path` and `variable.import` with a file path instead of JSON,
+  `window.*` (new windows open files), `view.theme*`;
+- live sessions and online files: `collab.*`;
 - other documents and the version history: `doc.*` and `version.*` (except `doc.list` and
   `version.list`);
 - the undo history and nesting: `edit.undo`, `edit.redo`, `edit.repeat`, `command.batch` (a run is