Grist Master

Reference knowledge base for Grist, the open-source spreadsheet-database hybrid. Built from the official Grist Help Center. Use this skill to answer questions, write formulas, call the API, configure self-hosted instances, or build integrations without re-deriving Grist behavior from scratch.

This is a pure reference skill — no scripts, no dependencies. Read the relevant file(s) below before answering non-trivial Grist questions.

What Grist is

Grist stores data as tables of records (not spreadsheet cells with row/column addresses). Each table has typed columns; formulas are Python, apply to a whole column at once (no per-row A1-style addressing), and are recalculated automatically. A document = one SQLite file (.grist), containing all tables, pages, widgets, and access rules.