| name | data-programs |
| description | Save a run-code fetch/join/aggregate script as a stored, refreshable data source any app's own charts/tables can render, instead of a hardcoded provider action or a per-view re-fetch. Use when an ad-hoc run-code or provider-api-request analysis should become a live, cached data source other users or panels can reuse. |
Data Programs
A data program is a named, stored, agent-authored JS script that fetches,
joins, filters, or aggregates data — provider APIs via providerFetch /
providerFetchAll / providerSearchAll, app data via appAction, or
Resources-backed workspace files — and emits a small { rows, schema }
result that gets cached in SQL. Any app can render that result through its
own table/chart components; nothing about the primitive is analytics-specific.
This ships automatically wherever run-code is available — there is nothing
to mount, wire, or configure per app. If your app already has run-code
enabled, save-data-program / preview-data-program / run-data-program /
list-data-programs / get-data-program / delete-data-program are already
registered actions.
Why this exists
Without it, "build a live view of X" tends to end in one of two bad places:
a hardcoded action per vendor/query shape (brittle, doesn't scale to every
customer's custom fields), or re-running the same fetch/join logic from
scratch on every page view (slow, and it re-spends the same provider quota
every time someone looks at a chart). A data program is the middle ground:
write the fetch/join/aggregate logic once as ordinary run-code, save it, and
let the cache + refresh policy handle "how often does this actually need to
re-run."
Authoring workflow
- Prototype the fetch/join/aggregate logic as a normal script and
confirm it returns the rows you expect.
