@particle-academy/holy-sheet

Zero-dependency, isomorphic (browser + Node) .xlsx writer + reader + formula linter for agentic document creation. The Node/TypeScript mirror of the PHP particle-academy/holy-sheet — same schema in, same .xlsx out (the PHP package's dumpJson and Toolkit are not mirrored here; CHANGELOG.md records which PHP releases each fix mirrors).

import { Agent } from "@particle-academy/holy-sheet";

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

// Universal — works in the browser and Node
const bytes: Uint8Array = Agent.toBytes(schema);

// Node only
await Agent.write(schema, "sales.xlsx");

API

Agent (static) mirrors the PHP surface:

• validate(schema) → structured errors {path, expected, got, value, hint}[]
• toBytes(schema) → Uint8Array (universal)
• write(schema, path) → {path, bytes, sheets} (Node only)
• validateAndRepair(schema) → {schema, errors, repairs}
• lint(schema) → formula problems {sheet, address, formula, error, hint}[]
• fromArray(rows, headers?, sheetName?, options?) → schema
• fromCsv(csvOrPath, options?) → schema
• read(bytes) → schema (universal) and describe(path) → schema (Node only): the round-trip reader, for an .xlsx or an .ods
• toolDefinition() → JSON Schema for LLM tool-use
• diff(a, b) → the ops that turn one schema into another, reduce(schema, opOrOps) → a new schema, opSchema() → JSON Schema for one op, equivalent(a, b) → whether two schemas write the same workbook (see Versions as diffs)
• version() → string

See docs/ for the full schema reference.

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:

const schema = await Agent.describe("upload.ods"); // or upload.xlsx: same shape

The format is decided from the file's contents, never its name. Anything else throws UnsupportedFormatException (an Error, with the declared mimetype when there is one). What maps and what does not is listed in the PHP package's docs/ReadPath.md; this port reads the same fixtures and is diffed against it.

Versions as diffs

Agent.diff(a, b) returns the ops that turn one schema into another, and Agent.reduce(schema, ops) applies them. Keep the current workbook as a real file and each older version as the ops that restore it:

import { Agent, type SheetOp } from "@particle-academy/holy-sheet";

const old = Agent.read(currentBytes);
const ops: SheetOp[] = Agent.diff(edited, old); // store these with the version

Agent.reduce(edited, ops); // equals old
Agent.opSchema(); // JSON Schema for one op

• Exact: reduce(a, diff(a, b)) equals b, key order aside.
• Small: one changed cell is one set_cell, and an inserted row is one insert_rows plus that row's cells. Rows and columns are aligned by content before cells are compared.
• Nothing for no change: schemas that write the same workbook diff to [], so diff(s, read(toBytes(s))) is []. Agent.equivalent() asks that question directly.
• The same ops as PHP: this is a port of particle-academy/holy-sheet 2.3.0's Agent::diff, checked against it op for op, so a history written by either runtime replays in the other.

set_cell, set_range and set_workbook are fancy-sheets' SheetOp shapes, so stored ops can drive a live useSheetSync session. The other ops cover sheets, rows, columns, merges, widths, frozen panes and meta. Granular ops address sheets in the cell form read() returns; a sheet authored as columns/rows is replaced whole when it changes. reduce() never modifies its input, and shares the parts an op leaves alone with its result.

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