stash::items and stash::keys listed the first 10,000 items and let the rest
vanish without a word. They return a Listing { found, more } now, so a caller
can say what it did not list.
It keeps a step from the group's start to the restored workbook, so Undo
still returns to the state before the group; the note said the history came
back exactly.
The guard refused any name of the stash's shape, so a visible name a person
had defined, such as _gc_rate_0, could not be edited or deleted from Name
Manager, which cannot pass force. It now refuses a name only when the
workbook holds a hidden workbook-scope item under it; a visible name of the
shape is the person's own, as the stash itself treats it. The test covers
such a name. The query comment says what the copy skip relies on: a query
runs nothing that changes the history.
`Trust` defaulted to `Local`, and `DocState::new` set it, so a
document was trusted unless its maker remembered to mark it. Every
current path that reads a file goes through `file.open`, which marks
it `FromFile`, but a later way of building a document from bytes
(recovery, templates, a new import) would have come out trusted by
omission.
`DocState::new` now takes the `Trust`, and `Trust` has no default.
New workbooks and samples pass `Local`, `file.open` passes
`FromFile`, a new window passes the trust of its workbook, and the
tests that build documents from bytes pass `FromFile`.
`formulas.defineName {"name": "_gc_macro_1_0"}` replaced the hidden
chunk of a stored item with a visible name: the item vanished from
`stash::get` and `stash::keys`, and its other chunks stayed behind as
orphan hidden names. `formulas.deleteName` could remove chunks the
same way, and `formulas.createFromSelection` with `replace` could
replace one from a cell label. `stash::set` refused a clash with a
visible name, but nothing guarded the other direction.
Defining, renaming or deleting a name that `stash::item_key`
recognises (`_gc_<key>_<n>` and legacy `_sc_<key>`) is now refused
with an error that names `force: true`, which lets the call go ahead.
Create from Selection lists such labels in `skipped` unless `force`
is true. The params docs of the three commands say so.
Each `stash::get` looks at every defined name, so listing the items
with `keys` and then reading each with `get` took time quadratic in
the number of names. A file with 20,000 hidden `_gc_macro_<i>_0`
names took about ten seconds in a debug build, and the macro list
reads its items this way from data that comes from the file.
`stash::items(wb, prefix)` now groups the names by item in one pass
and returns each item's text by key, and `keys` lists from the same
pass. Both return at most `MAX_ITEMS` (10,000) items, the first keys
in sorted order, so a file with any number of hidden names can't make
a listing unbounded. A test counts the names each listing looks at.
The xlsx writer drops characters XML 1.0 can't carry: controls other
than tab, line feed and carriage return, and U+FFFE and U+FFFF. A
stash item holding one lost it on save without a warning, and so did
a JSON item, since serde_json leaves U+FFFE and U+FFFF unescaped: a
stored macro parameter changed silently.
`chunk_formulas` now writes each such character, and the marker
itself, as the noncharacter U+FDD0 followed by four hex digits, and
`get` turns them back for `_gc_` items. A marker that isn't followed
by four hex digits naming a character is read as it is. An escape
counts as five units against the 255-unit literal limit and is never
split across literals, and the guard on the stored size allows the
longest item even when every character is escaped. Legacy `_sc_`
items are read unchanged.
A menu-style call with no parameters, such as `file.open`,
`data.fromTextCsv` or `home.formatCells` with `{}`, only queues its
dialog and succeeds. The recorder kept it as a step with empty
parameters, and then kept the dialog's confirming call as well, so
playing the recording back ran the command twice, or failed on the
empty step when played back headless. Only `execute_headless` took
the step back, and only for the open and save-as dialogs.
`execute` now compares the queued UI requests before and after a
top-level command and does not record one that queued a dialog. The
special case in `execute_headless` goes (it keeps turning a missing
file into an error), and with it `Recorder::truncate`, which had no
other caller.
A command that opened an undo group and then returned an error (a `?`
between `group_begin` and `group_end`) left the group open for good:
Undo and Redo refused with "finish or stop the running action first",
later edits made no undo steps, and nothing could stop the group.
`execute` now rolls back every group a failed command opened, as
`group_rollback` does, restoring the workbook, selection, undo and
redo history to where each group began. Only a command that succeeds
keeps a group it opened, which is what a debugger's start needs.
`Session::abort_groups(doc)` and the menu-less command
`automate.stopAction` roll back the groups left open on a document,
for a debugger the person abandons or a caller that dropped its
token. The command is not undoable and works while a group is open,
and the Undo refusal now names it.
The architecture note named formulas and validation only; it now lists the
Paste Special kinds and linked pastes that write formulas, and the kinds that
carry nothing.
The panic guard restored the workbook and selection but not the history, so
a nested edit made before the panic left a no-op undo step and the redo
history it had cleared stayed lost. The guard now truncates the steps made
during the command and puts the redo history back. Regression test, and the
architecture note says what the guard restores.
The header and the revision row said 2026-10-11, older than the row above them. The document trust paragraph now says how DocState::trust (provenance) differs from DocState::scripts_trusted (per-session consent for stored scripts, #2178).
Paste Special › Formats copies cell styles and merged areas. It copies no conditional formats,
formulas or validation, so it carries nothing that runs. It still marked the destination
FromFile: copying a formula cell from an opened file and pasting its formats into a new workbook
made that workbook ask before running its own active content.
Formats pastes now count as passive, like values, column widths and notes. The comment and
docs/architecture.md no longer say that pasted formats carry trust.
execute treated any change in the group epoch as 'the group owns the step'. A command that edited outside its own group, or whose group rolled back before it edited, left that edit with no undo step or only part of it. Now only a group that was open before the command (or is still open after) owns the step; a command that opened and closed its own groups replaces their steps with one entry for the command.
GridCraft keeps workbook data in hidden defined names so it travels
inside the xlsx file. The existing items write one name holding one
string literal, which past Excel's 255-character literal and
8,192-character formula limits gives a file Excel does not accept.
cmd/stash.rs stores an item `key` as hidden workbook-scope names
_gc_<key>_0, _gc_<key>_1, ..., each a formula of string literals of at
most 255 characters (UTF-16 units, as Excel counts them) joined with &,
at most 8,192 characters per name. Reading concatenates the chunks in
order and stops at a gap; it also accepts the older single _sc_<key>
name. Names are matched case-insensitively and only at workbook scope.
Keys are limited to letters, digits, _ and ., items to 4,194,304
characters, and junk around or inside the literals, duplicate or
out-of-order chunks, non-JSON and over-deep JSON all read safely.
keys(prefix) lists the stored items that start with a prefix.
Custom views, scripts, the watch list and scenarios keep their current
storage; nothing reads or writes the new names yet.
docs/architecture.md describes the engine building blocks added in this
series: undo groups, the recording buffer, document trust and this
storage.
Progress docs per craftrules standards/progress-docs.md: target-app parity, gaps, roadmap with alpha gate, readiness by audience (full / mainstream / essentials) with Opus 5.5 hours, and feature, format, hardware, UI and localization parity docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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