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Rehearsal: Macro engine: macro.run with input checks, the policy, and a check of each step for writes over data - #26
Rehearsal of the macro runner branch before the upstream pull request is updated. Not for merging.
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New Features
Added macro execution with input validation, execution limits, and safeguards for restricted commands and file access.
Macro runs may require approval or conflict confirmation. Structural edits keep inputs, outputs, and repeat ranges aligned with their cells.
Failed runs roll back workbook changes, though files already written remain. Successful runs are grouped into one undo step.
Documentation
Expanded macro guidance to cover input binding, permissions, approvals, conflict handling, rollback, and execution limits.
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Walkthrough
The engine adds macro.run with command policy and approval checks, input validation, execution limits, conflict handling, and rollback. Structural edits are recorded so macro references can follow workbook changes. Tests and documentation cover macro execution.
The registry exposes macro.run. The engine classifies macro commands, checks file permissions and trust, and tracks approvals by document and canonical macro fingerprint.
Macro execution and outcomes crates/engine/src/macros/run.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, crates/engine/src/tests/macros.rs, docs/macros.md
The runner binds and validates inputs, executes macro steps, enforces limits and conflict rules, and groups workbook changes into one undo operation. Tests and documentation cover run outcomes and restrictions.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant MacroCommand
participant MacroRunner
participant MacroPolicy
participant Workbook
Caller->>MacroCommand: submit macro.run parameters
MacroCommand->>MacroRunner: validate name and delegate
MacroRunner->>MacroPolicy: check commands, permissions, and approval
MacroRunner->>Workbook: execute macro steps
MacroRunner->>Caller: return result or error
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Security architecture risk: Low · up to fe14c
Macros can now modify workbooks and, after approval, access files. Document-bound approvals and per-step checks constrain this authority. Workbook rollback does not undo completed file exports, so a failed run can still leave external files.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — Workbook-supplied commands and parameters gain authority over the selected document after the required approval. Approved native file commands can additionally reach paths accessible to the application process; their authority is command-scoped, not restricted to a workbook directory.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Imported macros require approval. File access additionally requires a declared command permission. The runner checks both written and resolved parameters, rejects newly revealed unapproved file access, and sandboxes other steps. Policy blocks document-switching, application, script, nested-macro, and undo/redo commands; dialog and URL requests are rejected.
inferred — The public approval set exposes consent state to host code, but this is not an established workbook-to-host bypass. The inspected approval writer is engine-owned, and host mutability of document trust already existed in the base. External consumers remain outside the inspected scope.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Workbook recovery and filesystem publication are separate transaction boundaries. Undo-group recovery handles returned errors and unwinding panics. File writes use temporary-file publication and error cleanup, but that mechanism does not restore a successfully published export after a later macro failure.
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…olicy
macro.run runs a macro as one undo step ("Run Macro: <name>"); an error
at any step rolls everything back and names the step and its path (3,
2.1 inside a Repeat, 4.then.1 inside an If). It works in four parts:
- Policy (macro_policy). File, app, window, automate and macro commands
and Undo and Redo never run in a macro. Reading or writing files
(data.getData, data.fromTextCsv, insert.picture, Page Layout
Background, or an export with a path) needs the command in the
macro's permissions and the person's approval. A macro in a workbook
opened from a file asks before it runs. Approval holds for the
session until the macro's content changes; it is asked for with the
new EngineError::Approve and given with approve: true. A step that
would open a dialog or a web page fails instead.
- Inputs. Each declared input is bound (given, its default, or the
selection for the first one), whole columns shrink to the used range,
and the shape and column types are checked with messages that name
the cells: "Input column 2 (Amount) must hold numbers; C4 holds text".
- Footprint. Unless the macro may overwrite, it first runs in dry-run
mode on the real workbook inside an undo group that is rolled back,
with the session's clipboard, journal, windows and the document's
trust put back. CellStore::diff on every sheet, plus the cells
commands wrote (DocState::touched), sheets and objects, gives what it
would write outside its inputs; cells that only recalculated do not
count. Writing over data, deleting a sheet or deleting an object is a
conflict: ask (the new EngineError::Confirm, so programmatic runs fail
unless they pass onConflict or overwrite), fail, overwrite, or shift
the data down or right with Insert Cells and check again. A step that
would fail, for example past the edge of the sheet, fails the run
before anything changes. File steps and Solver stop the dry run early
and are reported.
- Steps run on a machine with an explicit frame stack: Repeat over the
rows or columns of a range with Row or Column bound, If on one cell
with Excel's comparisons, and Stop, which keeps the changes or rolls
them back. A run executes at most 100,000 steps within a time limit
(60 s by default, timeLimit to change; the web build has no clock, so
only the step limit applies there).
macro.check reports the bound inputs, the output anchor, the approval
needed, the footprint and the conflicts without changing anything;
nothing from an unapproved macro runs, not even as a dry run.
… any path counts as file access
A path given as a token (`{"$ref": "Input"}` or `{{Input}}`) became a file name only when the
step ran, after the policy had passed it, so a macro without permissions or approval could write
a file, even from macro.check. Exports also wrote to blank paths the policy ignored. Any `path`
other than null now needs the permission and approval, and the runner checks the policy again on
the resolved parameters before the command runs.
…run checks each step
The footprint dry run stops at an approved file step and at Solver, but
make_way took a partial footprint with no conflicts as proof that the
run was safe, also after a shift. A macro that exported a CSV and then
set B1 ran under onConflict fail or ask and overwrote B1 without asking.
When the footprint is partial and the rule is not overwrite, the run's
machine now checks every step as it runs: a step that writes over
cells, sheets or objects that held data when the run started stops the
run and rolls it back, with a confirmation under ask and an error
otherwise. make_way now returns the machine for the run along with
whether it shifted.
footprint always ran its dry run with the default 60 second limit, so
macro.run with timeLimit 5 could run for over two minutes (a dry run,
then another after a shift) and fail with "ran longer than 60 seconds".
footprint now takes the run's clock and limit. make_way starts the
run's clock before the dry runs, so the checks and the run share one
limit, and macro.check takes timeLimit too.
The policy denies window.* commands, but the View tab's window commands
are view.*: a macro could run view.newWindow, which adds a window that
the run's rollback doesn't remove, or view.hideWindow and
view.unhideWindow, which change the session's hidden windows.
The policy now denies those three. Arrange All changes nothing in the
engine and Switch Windows only lists windows, so both stay allowed.
…a 64-bit hash
Approvals were stored as (document, FNV-1a hash of the macro's JSON).
FNV-1a is not collision resistant, so a crafted workbook could hold a
harmless macro and a different one with the same hash, and approving
the first would let the second run without asking.
The key is now the macro's canonical JSON text itself (object keys
sorted), so two different macros never share an approval.
macros::hash is replaced by macros::fingerprint.
The policy summary said file commands never run in a macro, but File >
Properties runs, and exports and printing run: without a path they only
produce bytes, and with one they need the permission and approval. The
summary now names what is denied and what runs, and the paragraph is
wrapped to the file's line length.
…dy wrote stays
The intro said a macro run rolls everything back on an error, but a step that exports or prints to a path writes the file before a later step can fail, and the Running section says that file stays. The intro now limits the guarantee to workbook changes.
…n nothing changed, take the answer however ask was given, and share one step budget
Four fixes from a review of the runner, each with a regression test that
fails without it:
- A shift inserts cells over the block of every written cell, which moves
that block's columns (or rows) from there on. When a bound input lay in
the way, its data moved and sheared while the run kept the old coordinates
and reported success. The shift is now refused, naming the input and its
place. The output is not counted: it is where the macro writes, and the
second footprint catches data a shift moved into it.
- A dry run or a refused run left a clean workbook dirty: view.zoom,
sheet.activate and the view modes move the saved mark to the current
workbook on a clean document, and the rollback put the workbook back but
not the mark. Saved keeps and restores it.
- overwrite: true answers the question however ask was given; with an
explicit onConflict: ask the answer was ignored and the question came back
forever.
- The dry runs and the run share one step budget as they share one clock;
each phase counted its own 100,000 steps before. ran reports the run's
own steps.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/macros/run.rs:
- Around line 906-907: Update the `Saved::restore` flow so footprint dry runs
cannot trim or append to the live journal; suspend journaling for the duration
of the dry run and resume it afterward. This keeps the journal and recording
position intact without relying on the saved length snapshot.
Review comments at @docs/macros.md:
- Line 99: Qualify the Footprint step in the macro documentation to state that
the dry run occurs only when the conflict rule is not `overwrite`, so readers do
not expect a preview for overwrite runs.
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crates/engine/src/cmd/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/lib.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/run.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
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…d itself
Every nested command a dry run executes is journaled, so a long macro pushes
the journal past its limit and the journal drops its oldest entries. The
restore cut the journal back to its old length, which then kept entries from
the dry run and pointed Record Actions at the wrong place. The session now
counts the entries its journal has dropped (journal_dropped) and truncates
with its size bookkeeping (truncate_journal); the restore keeps the old
length less what was dropped meanwhile and moves the recording's start back
by the same count. Regression test with 12,000 nested steps.
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Rehearsal: Macro engine: macro.run and macro.check with input checks, a footprint dry run and a file-access policy
Rehearsal: Macro engine: macro.run with input checks, the policy, and a check of each step for writes over data
Oct 25, 2026
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/macros/run.rs:
- Line 511: Update the `in_input` closure to compare each input place’s
`p.sheet` with the current sheet index `ai`, not the start-workbook index `si`;
keep the range containment check unchanged.
- Around line 512-518: Update the overwrite detection that builds `hit` so it
compares each candidate’s current position with its corresponding start position
after applying the step’s edits, reusing the existing `follow` mapping where
appropriate. Treat a cell as overwritten only when its start content is absent
from every resulting position, not when the content was merely shifted.
Review comments at @docs/macros.md:
- Around line 12-14: Update the introductory statement in the macro
documentation to clarify that `macro.run` validates the macro, inputs, options,
and policy before execution, while this version has no separate validation
command or macro management interface. Keep the existing statement about the
debugger and recorder.
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crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/macros.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/sheet.rs
crates/engine/src/io.rs
crates/engine/src/lib.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/policy.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/run.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/tests/macros.rs
docs/macros.md
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…after a sheet moved
- The check for writes over data compared the inputs' sheet with the sheet's index when the run
started, while the inputs follow their cells: after a step inserted a sheet in front, a step
writing into its own input on the moved sheet was stopped as writing over data. It now uses the
sheet's index now. Test: the input case in
`inputs_and_the_output_follow_their_cells_when_a_step_moves_them`.
- Docs: the page says `macro.run` checks the macro, its inputs and parameters and the policy
before it runs, and that a formula whose references a move rewrites counts as changed too.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/macros.rs:
- Line 14: Remove shifted? from the documented result in the macro command
params text, leaving {macro, ran, inputs, stopped?} as the return contract; keep
the input options and other documentation unchanged.
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crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/insert.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/macros.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/sheet.rs
crates/engine/src/io.rs
crates/engine/src/lib.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/mod.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/policy.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/run.rs
crates/engine/src/macros/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
crates/engine/src/tests/macros.rs
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Require permission for review.spelling before execution.
review.spelling has no path parameter, but its dictionary() helper reads system dictionary files with std::fs::read_to_string. The current policy falls through to Policy::Allow, so a local-trust macro can trigger this file read without declared permission or approval.
Do not only add the command to READS_FILES; that list is checked only when has_path is true. Classify commands with fixed file reads separately.
Suggested fix
const READS_FILES: &[&str] = &["data.getData", "data.fromTextCsv", "insert.picture", "pageLayout.background"];
+/// Commands that read a file without a `path` parameter.+const ALWAYS_READS_FILES: &[&str] = &["review.spelling"];+
/// File commands that only produce bytes unless given a `path` (then they write a file).
const EXPORTS: &[&str] = &["file.exportPdf", "file.exportCsv", "file.exportHtml", "file.print", "file.printPreview", "file.saveBytes"];
@@
- } else if READS_FILES.contains(&id) && has_path {+ } else if ALWAYS_READS_FILES.contains(&id) || (READS_FILES.contains(&id) && has_path) {
Policy::NeedsPermission("reads a file".into())
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/macros/policy.rs around lines 55 - 83:
Update macro_policy to classify commands with fixed file reads separately from
READS_FILES, which only applies when a path is present. Ensure review.spelling
returns NeedsPermission before execution even without a path, while preserving
the existing path-dependent behavior for READS_FILES.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/macros/policy.rs:
- Around line 55-83: Update macro_policy to classify commands with fixed file
reads separately from READS_FILES, which only applies when a path is present.
Ensure review.spelling returns NeedsPermission before execution even without a
path, while preserving the existing path-dependent behavior for READS_FILES.
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff comment about review.spelling (policy.rs:55-83): not changed. The command reads GridCraft's own word lists at fixed paths; the macro chooses no path, and nothing it reads is the person's data or leaves the app. The file policy is about files a macro names or writes (an import, a picture, an export with a path), which is what the person approves. A permission and an approval for checking spelling would ask the person about something a macro cannot misuse.
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Rehearsal of the macro runner branch before the upstream pull request is updated. Not for merging.
The base branch is the current head of the macro tokens branch (upstream pull request 2151, rehearsed as pull request 25 here), which now carries the engine building blocks' maintainer-review round and upstream
mainat b8771d5. The diff shows only this branch's changes.This round is the merge-forward of that base (one conflict in the document constructor, where the base now takes the trust explicitly); the branch's own commits are unchanged. Every
cargo xtask cistep passes locally (2,294 tests).Summary by CodeRabbit