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# holy-sheet

[![Fancified](art/fancified.svg)](https://particle.academy)

Zero-dependency `.xlsx` **writer + reader + formula linter** for agentic document
creation. The Python mirror of PHP
[`particle-academy/holy-sheet`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/holy-sheet)
and Node
[`@particle-academy/holy-sheet`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/holy-sheet-js)
— same schema in, the same `.xlsx` out, whichever runtime you happen to be on.

```python
import holy_sheet

schema = {
    "sheets": [
        {
            "name": "Sales",
            "columns": [
                {"header": "Region", "type": "string"},
                {"header": "Revenue", "type": "currency", "currency": "USD"},
            ],
            "rows": [
                ["North", 12000],
                ["South", 9800],
            ],
            "totals": {"Revenue": "sum"},
        }
    ]
}

holy_sheet.write(schema, "sales.xlsx")      # -> {"path": …, "bytes": …, "sheets": 1}
data = holy_sheet.to_bytes(schema)          # bytes, for an HTTP response
```

## The schema is the point

That dict is the whole API. It is **declarative and emittable in one shot** —
an agent describes the workbook it wants and hands it over, rather than driving
a builder through forty calls and hoping the state machine agrees. There is no
`Workbook()` to construct, no `add_row()`, no cursor.

Which is why the input is a **plain `dict`, not a dataclass**. The validator is
the gate, not the type system:

```python
holy_sheet.validate(schema)            # [] means valid; otherwise structured errors
holy_sheet.validate_and_repair(schema) # fixes the unambiguous mistakes, reports what it fixed
holy_sheet.lint(schema)                # evaluates every formula, reports the broken ones
```

`validate_and_repair` exists precisely because models send slightly-wrong JSON:
a singular `sheet` key, `row` where `rows` belongs, an integer-keyed rows object,
`"1200"` where a number goes. A dataclass would move the gate into a constructor
and reject exactly the input the repairer is there to rescue. `holy_sheet.schema.types`
carries `TypedDict`s for editor autocomplete; they are documentation, not
constructors.

`lint` catches what an LLM actually gets wrong with formulas — referencing the
header row instead of the first data row, a string in arithmetic, a cell that
does not exist, a circular dependency — and says what to do about it:

```python
>>> holy_sheet.lint({"sheets": [{"name": "Q4", "rows": [
...     ["Region", "Annual", "Monthly"],
...     ["NA", 12000, {"formula": "B1*12"}],
... ]}]})
[{'sheet': 'Q4', 'address': 'C2', 'formula': 'B1*12', 'error': '#VALUE!',
  'hint': 'Arithmetic on a non-numeric cell: B1 = "Annual" (string) '
          'Did you mean B2? (it holds 12000)'}]
```

## The Agent API

Module-level functions — no class to instantiate, no DI container:

| | |
|---|---|
| `validate(schema)` | structured errors `[{path, expected, got, value, hint}]`; `[]` is valid |
| `validate_and_repair(schema)` | `{schema, errors, repairs}` |
| `to_bytes(schema)` | `bytes` |
| `write(schema, path)` | `{path, bytes, sheets}` — synchronous |
| `read(data, *, sheet=None, limits=None)` | schema, from xlsx or ods **bytes** |
| `describe(path, *, sheet=None, limits=None)` | schema, from an xlsx or ods **path** |
| `rows(sheet, *, formulas="computed", max_cells=None)` | a read sheet as rows of values |
| `to_csv(table, options=None)` | `{text, report}`: one portable table as RFC 4180 CSV |
| `lint(schema)` | `[{sheet, address, formula, error, hint}]` |
| `from_array(rows, headers=None, sheet_name="Sheet 1", options=None)` | schema, with inferred column types |
| `from_csv(csv_or_path, options=None)` | schema, from CSV content **or** a path |
| `tool_definition()` | the JSON Schema, for LLM tool-use |
| `diff(a, b)` | the ops that turn schema `a` into `b` |
| `reduce(schema, op_or_ops)` | a new schema with the ops applied |
| `op_schema()` | the JSON Schema for one op |
| `equivalent(a, b)` | whether two schemas write the same workbook |
| `version()` | this package's version |

`tool_definition()` is byte-identical across all three engines and checksum-pinned
in each — drop it into an Anthropic `tool_use` block or an OpenAI function
definition and every backend describes the same tool.

Lower-level services are exported under their peer names for when you want to
inject them: `Validator`, `Repairer`, `Normalizer`, `FormulaLinter`, `Inference`,
`Theme`, `XlsxWriter`, `XlsxReader`, `OdsReader`, `FormatSniffer`, `ArrayBuilder`,
`CsvBuilder`, `CellAddress`, `SheetDiff`, `SheetReducer`, `SheetOpSchema`,
`SchemaException`, `UnsupportedFormatException`, `ArchiveRefused`,
`ReadLimitExceeded`, `SheetNotFoundException`, `OptionsInvalid`.

### Reading: one sheet, rows, and read limits

```python
import holy_sheet
from holy_sheet import ReadLimitExceeded

# Only the sheet you name is parsed. Names match exactly; an unknown one raises
# SheetNotFoundException, whose message lists every sheet.
schema = holy_sheet.read(data, sheet="Contacts")

# The sheet as rows of values in column order. A blank row in the middle is [],
# so rows[n - 1] is always row n; trailing blank rows are not padded. A formula
# gives its cached computedValue; formulas="formula" gives "=SUM(B2:B9)". A
# merged region's value is at its top-left cell only.
rows = holy_sheet.rows(schema["sheets"][0])
```

A read is bounded by what the file expands into, not only its bytes:
`maxRows` (default 1,048,576, per sheet), `maxColumns` (16,384, per sheet),
`maxCells` (20,000,000, the workbook) and `maxSharedStrings` (20,000,000), in
`DEFAULT_READ_LIMITS`. Each is checked before what it counts is built. Override
any with a positive `int`; anything else (a `bool` included) is
`ArchiveRefused` with reason `read_limits`. The keys are PHP's, like the archive
limits'.

```python
try:
    holy_sheet.read(data, limits={"maxRows": 200000})
except ReadLimitExceeded as e:
    # e.limit "maxRows", e.max 200000, e.actual 250001, and str(e) for people:
    # "Spreadsheet refused: a sheet has 250,001 rows, over the limit of 200,000 rows (maxRows) by 50,001."
    ...
```

`ReadLimitExceeded` is an `ArchiveRefused` (reason `read_limit`). The archive
limits still apply first and are the tighter bound today: a worksheet part over
64 MiB is refused, which 10 mixed columns reach at about 120,000 rows. PHP and
Node take the same options and refuse with the same reasons and messages.

### CSV

`to_csv(table, options=None)` writes one portable table
(`{"rows": [{"cells": [{"t", "v", "colSpan"?, "rowSpan"?}]}]}`) as RFC 4180
CSV, byte for byte as PHP's `Exchange\Csv::toCsv()`, and returns `{"text",
"report"}`. Options are PHP's: `{"escapeFormulas": bool, "display": bool}`.
Formula-injection escaping is on by default: a string or error field starting
with `=`, `+`, `-`, `@`, TAB or CR gets a leading `'` and is reported
`csv-escaped`. Turn it off only from host code, never from agent input.

### Borders

Each border side is a bare hex colour, which is a thin line, or
`{"style": ..., "color": ...}` with `style` one of `thin`, `medium`, `thick`,
`dashed`, `dotted`, `double`: `"format": {"borderBottom": {"style": "double", "color": "#111827"}}`.

### Reading OpenDocument spreadsheets

`read()` and `describe()` accept an OpenDocument spreadsheet (`.ods`) as well as
an `.xlsx`, and return the same schema for both, so a caller needs no branch on
the file type and no second library:

```python
schema = holy_sheet.describe("upload.ods")  # or upload.xlsx: same shape
```

The format is decided from the file's contents, never its name. Anything else
raises `UnsupportedFormatException` (a `RuntimeError`, with the declared
`mimetype` when there is one). What maps and what does not is listed in the PHP
package's [`docs/ReadPath.md`](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/holy-sheet/blob/main/docs/ReadPath.md#opendocument-spreadsheets-ods);
this port reads the same fixtures and is diffed against it.

### Versions as ops

An agent that edits a workbook needs a history, and hashing xlsx bytes cannot
keep a one-cell edit small: a zip changes nearly every byte. `diff` keeps each
version as the ops that restore it instead.

```python
ops = holy_sheet.diff(new, old)          # store these with the new version
old_again = holy_sheet.reduce(new, ops)  # equals `old`, key order aside
```

- **`reduce(a, diff(a, b))` equals `b`.** The ops are verified by replaying
  them; a sheet they cannot reproduce is replaced whole, and as a last resort so
  is the workbook.
- **Small edits stay small.** One changed cell is one `set_cell`. Rows and
  columns are aligned by content first, so an inserted row is one `insert_rows`
  plus its cells.
- **A save without a change records nothing.** Schemas that write the same
  workbook diff to `[]`: an authored columns/rows sheet and the cells
  `describe()` reads back from it, or a schema without `meta.created` and its
  written copy. `equivalent(a, b)` is that check on its own. Both schemas must
  be valid, because the check writes them.
- **`reduce` is pure.** Nothing passed in is modified, the result shares no
  mutable structure with it, and an op naming a sheet that is not there is
  skipped rather than raised.

The ops: `set_cell`, `set_range`, `set_workbook` (fancy-sheets' `SheetOp` shapes,
with its semantics: a `set_cell` without `formula` clears the formula and keeps
the format and comment, `null` clears those), `clear_cell`, `insert_rows`,
`delete_rows`, `insert_columns`, `delete_columns`, `add_sheet`, `remove_sheet`,
`rename_sheet`, `move_sheet`, `replace_sheet`, `set_merged_regions`,
`set_column_widths`, `set_frozen` and `set_meta`. `op_schema()` is the JSON
Schema for one of them, to validate stored ops or to hand an LLM as a tool.

Row and column ops move cells, merged regions and column widths; they do not
rewrite formula text. After a column insert or delete, `columnWidths` has
integer keys, the keys `describe()` returns, even where the schema came from
JSON with string keys.

**The same input gives the same ops, in the same order, as PHP's
`Agent::diff`**, so a history written by a Laravel app replays here and the
other way round. The parity suite runs the PHP package and compares op lists.

### Excel and LibreOffice templates (.xltx, .ots)

An `.xltx` is an `.xlsx` whose workbook part is declared a template; an `.ots`
is an `.ods` whose `mimetype` (and manifest root entry) says
`spreadsheet-template`. `read()` / `describe()` read both exactly as their twins
and add `"sourceKind": "template"` (also `Workbook.source_kind` from
`read_workbook()`). A document read has no `sourceKind` key, as before.

```python
holy_sheet.read(xltx_bytes)              # {..., "sourceKind": "template"}
holy_sheet.convert_template("b.xltx")    # .xlsx bytes ("document" | "template" | None = flip)
```

```
holy-sheet template:convert budget.xltx budget.xlsx
python -m holy_sheet template:convert budget.ods budget.ots --to=template
```

Conversion rewrites only the declaration: the content-type value in
`[Content_Types].xml`, or the ODF `mimetype` entry plus the manifest's root
`media-type` (ODF 1.3 requires the two to match). Every other member is copied
as its original zip record, byte for byte; `mimetype` stays first and stored.
Refused with `OfficeTemplateRefused` (a constant `reason`): macro-enabled
`.xltm` (`macro_enabled`; an `.xlsm` is never converted either) and a package
declaring a template of another family (`family_mismatch`).

Every read and conversion first passes the bounded archive guard PHP and Node
run: unsafe, duplicate or oversized members, ratio bombs, encryption, zip64 and
corrupt records raise `ArchiveRefused` with a constant `reason`.

## Moving between runtimes

The schema does not change. Only the call shape does.

| | PHP | Node / TS | Python |
|---|---|---|---|
| bytes | `Agent::toBytes($schema)` | `Agent.toBytes(schema)` | `holy_sheet.to_bytes(schema)` |
| write a file | `Agent::write($schema, $path)` | `await Agent.write(schema, path)` | `holy_sheet.write(schema, path)` |
| validate | `Agent::validate($schema)` | `Agent.validate(schema)` | `holy_sheet.validate(schema)` |
| repair | `Agent::validateAndRepair($schema)` | `Agent.validateAndRepair(schema)` | `holy_sheet.validate_and_repair(schema)` |
| lint formulas | `Agent::lint($schema)` | `Agent.lint(schema)` | `holy_sheet.lint(schema)` |
| read bytes | — | `Agent.read(bytes)` | `holy_sheet.read(data)` |
| read a path | `Agent::describe($path)` | `await Agent.describe(path)` | `holy_sheet.describe(path)` |
| from rows | `Agent::fromArray($rows, $headers)` | `Agent.fromArray(rows, headers)` | `holy_sheet.from_array(rows, headers)` |
| from CSV | `Agent::fromCsv($csvOrPath)` | `Agent.fromCsv(csv)` | `holy_sheet.from_csv(csv_or_path)` |
| tool schema | `Agent::toolDefinition()` | `Agent.toolDefinition()` | `holy_sheet.tool_definition()` |
| diff two schemas | `Agent::diff($a, $b)` | `Agent.diff(a, b)` | `holy_sheet.diff(a, b)` |
| apply ops | `Agent::reduce($schema, $ops)` | `Agent.reduce(schema, ops)` | `holy_sheet.reduce(schema, ops)` |

Three differences worth knowing, each deliberate:

- **`write` is synchronous.** PHP's is; Node's is `async` only because browsers
  have no synchronous filesystem, which is not a constraint Python shares.
- **`from_csv` accepts a path as well as content**, following PHP. Node takes
  content only, because it targets browsers.
- **`read` takes bytes and `describe` takes a path**, which is Node's split
  rather than PHP's path-only reader. Bytes are the better primitive: an upload,
  a response body and a file all work.

## What it writes

Multiple sheets · inline-string text cells · deduplicated
fonts/fills/borders/numFmts in `styles.xml` · merged regions · column widths ·
frozen panes · comments (`comments1.xml` + `vmlDrawing1.vml`) · formulas with
optional cached values · symbolic totals (`{"Revenue": "sum"}` becomes
`SUM(B2:B4)`) · four themes · data validation (dropdowns and bounds).

### Data validation (dropdowns)

A rule on what a person may type into cells: a dropdown, or a bound on a whole
number, a decimal, a date or a text length, with an optional input prompt and
error alert. Set it on a column to cover that column's data rows, or list it on
the sheet with a `range` (the form a template uses, running past its sample
rows):

```python
holy_sheet.write({
    "sheets": [
        {
            "name": "Catalog",
            "columns": [
                {"header": "SKU"},
                {"header": "Status", "validation": {"type": "list", "values": ["Draft", "Live", "Retired"]}},
            ],
            "rows": [["A-1", "Draft"]],
            "dataValidations": [
                {"range": "C2:C500", "type": "list", "source": "'Lists'!A1:A20",
                 "prompt": {"title": "Category", "text": "Pick a category."},
                 "error": {"style": "stop", "title": "Unknown category", "text": "Choose from the list."}},
                {"range": "D2:D500", "type": "whole", "operator": "between", "min": 0, "max": 1000},
                {"range": "E2:E500", "type": "date", "operator": "greaterThanOrEqual", "value": "2026-01-01"},
            ],
        },
        {"name": "Lists", "cells": {"A1": "Tools", "A2": "Parts"}},
    ],
}, "catalog-template.xlsx")
```

`type` is `list`, `whole`, `decimal`, `date` (`YYYY-MM-DD`) or `textLength`. A
`list` takes `values` (inline) or `source` (a range, on this sheet or another),
never both; inline choices cannot contain a comma and must fit in 255 characters
joined by commas, Excel's limit, which `validate()` enforces. Every other type
takes `operator` (default `between`): `between` / `notBetween` take `min` and
`max`, the rest take `value`. Optional: `allowBlank` (default true),
`showDropdown` (lists, default true), `prompt: {title, text}`,
`error: {style: "stop" | "warning" | "information", title, text}`. The written
part is byte-identical to the PHP package's. The reader does not return
validations yet.

Exactly those parts and no others — no `sharedStrings.xml`, no `calcChain.xml`,
no `theme1.xml`. Those are the classic sources of xlsx diff noise and every
engine in this family deliberately skips them. Output is **deterministic**: the
same input produces the same bytes, always.

## No dependencies, permanently

`zipfile` and `xml.etree` are standard library and are generic infrastructure.
There is deliberately no `openpyxl`, no `xlsxwriter`, no `lxml`.

This is not minimalism for its own sake. **The schema model is the product**, and
an all-in-one spreadsheet library would own it — along with the XML layout, which
*is* the cross-runtime contract. The three engines agree at the level of part
bytes: attribute order, self-closing style, the absence of inter-element
whitespace, `&apos;` rather than `&#39;`. A library owns every one of those
decisions and cannot be talked out of them, so `tests/test_parity_php.py` — which
runs the PHP engine as a subprocess and diffs each OOXML part — would fail on the
first fixture.

Reading is different: `xml.etree` does that work, because nothing is serialised
there.

## Install

```bash
pip install fancy-holy-sheet
```

Requires Python 3.11+.

## Development

```bash
python -m pytest
```

The suite includes cross-runtime parity against the PHP engine. It needs `php`
on `PATH` (or `PHP_BIN` pointing at an interpreter) and a checkout of the PHP
package beside this one (or `HOLY_SHEET_PHP_SRC`). Locally a missing toolchain
skips those tests, loudly. **Under `CI` it fails** — a parity suite that
silently stops comparing anything reads exactly like one that compares
everything, and that is how two sibling suites reported green over zero
cross-engine coverage for months.

## The rest of the family

`holy-sheet` writes spreadsheets. Its siblings write the other two formats an
agent gets asked for, with the same declarative-schema shape:

- **[dark-slide](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/dark-slide)** — `.pptx`
- **[last-word](https://github.com/Particle-Academy/last-word)** — `.docx`

Part of the [Fancy UI suite](https://ui.particle.academy).

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## Agent guide

Building a workbook with an LLM? `agent-guide/professional-workbooks.md` (also `holy_sheet.guide()`)
is the guide to give the model alongside the JSON schema: the bar a professional
workbook meets, the schema idioms that reach it, and the failures seen in real
agent builds. It works with any agent loop.
