Actions: Begin Recording params name the command that passes a limit only as it runs

ui.action.record's params text now says that a recorded command whose
step passes a limit only from the values it adds as it runs keeps its
edit and result, that later recorded commands are an error and do not
run, and that ui.action.stop leaves its step out.

crates/mcp/src/ui_catalog.rs now matches the desktop table again
(cargo xtask ui-commands --check), including the action-limit params
texts of the earlier commit.

crates/mcp/src/ui_catalog.rs

@@ -1371,25 +1371,25 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "ui.action.rename",
         "Rename Action",
         "",
-        "{set: index, action: index, name} rename the Actions panel's action at action in set (0 is the top set) to name, with spaces trimmed from both ends; its steps, function key and color stay. An index past the last set or action, or an empty name, is an error and renames nothing → {name}",
+        "{set: index, action: index, name} rename the Actions panel's action at action in set (0 is the top set) to name, with spaces trimmed from both ends; its steps, function key and color stay. An index past the last set or action, an empty name, or a name that would give the set's action set file more than 8 MiB (counting the steps the recording in progress adds to it; a name that leaves the file as large or makes it smaller is never refused) is an error and renames nothing → {name}",
     ),
     (
         "ui.action.stepsIncluded",
         "Include Action Steps",
         "",
-        "{set: index, action?: index, step?: index, included: bool, others?: bool} include or exclude the playback of every step in a set, every step in one action, or one step. With a step and others: true, leave that step unchanged and apply included to every other step in its action (Alt/Option-click). Invalid indexes change nothing → {set, action?, step?, included}",
+        "{set: index, action?: index, step?: index, included: bool, others?: bool} include or exclude the playback of every step in a set, every step in one action, or one step. With a step and others: true, leave that step unchanged and apply included to every other step in its action (Alt/Option-click). Invalid indexes change nothing. An exclusion that would give the set's action set file more than 8 MiB, counting the steps the recording in progress adds to the set, is an error and changes nothing; a change that leaves the file as large or makes it smaller is never refused → {set, action?, step?, included}",
     ),
     (
         "ui.action.new",
         "New Action",
         "",
-        "{set: index, name, key?: 0-15, cmd?, shift?, color?: red|yellow|green|blue|violet} add an action named name (spaces trimmed from both ends) after the last action of the Actions panel's set at set (0 is the top set) and start recording into it; Stop Playing/Recording (ui.action.stop) ends the recording. key 1 to 15 is the function key F1 to F15 that plays the action (0 or null: none), with cmd (Ctrl, Command on macOS) and shift; color is its Button Mode color (null or \"\": none), which the panel does not show. Action function keys take priority over command shortcuts and preserve the command's binding. On Windows F1, Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+F6 cannot be used. The set becomes current and the new action is selected. The panel's Create New Action button and menu's New Action… (dialog `actionNew` with set, name, key, cmd, shift and color) run this on Record. While an action is recording, and for an index past the last set, an empty name, or a key or color that is not one of these, it is an error and nothing is added → {set, action}",
+        "{set: index, name, key?: 0-15, cmd?, shift?, color?: red|yellow|green|blue|violet} add an action named name (spaces trimmed from both ends) after the last action of the Actions panel's set at set (0 is the top set) and start recording into it; Stop Playing/Recording (ui.action.stop) ends the recording. key 1 to 15 is the function key F1 to F15 that plays the action (0 or null: none), with cmd (Ctrl, Command on macOS) and shift; color is its Button Mode color (null or \"\": none), which the panel does not show. Action function keys take priority over command shortcuts and preserve the command's binding. On Windows F1, Ctrl+F4 and Ctrl+F6 cannot be used. The set becomes current and the new action is selected. The panel's Create New Action button and menu's New Action… (dialog `actionNew` with set, name, key, cmd, shift and color) run this on Record. While an action is recording, and for an index past the last set, an empty name, a key or color that is not one of these, or an action that would give the set more than 1,000 actions or an action set file larger than 8 MiB, it is an error, nothing is added and no recording starts → {set, action}",
     ),
     (
         "ui.action.options",
         "Action Options",
         "",
-        "{set: index, action: index, name?, key?: 0-15, cmd?, shift?, color?: red|yellow|green|blue|violet} change the Actions panel's action at action in set (0 is the top set); its steps stay. name renames it (spaces trimmed from both ends), key 1 to 15 with cmd (Ctrl, Command on macOS) and shift sets the function key F1 to F15 that plays it (0 or null: none), and color sets its Button Mode color (null or \"\": none); a param left out keeps what the action has, and cmd or shift alone changes that modifier of its key. Action function keys take priority over command shortcuts and preserve the command's binding. The panel menu's Action Options… (dialog `actionSetOptions` with set, action, name, key, cmd, shift and color) runs this for the selected action. An index past the last set or action, an empty name, or a key or color that is not one of these is an error and changes nothing → {name, key, color}",
+        "{set: index, action: index, name?, key?: 0-15, cmd?, shift?, color?: red|yellow|green|blue|violet} change the Actions panel's action at action in set (0 is the top set); its steps stay. name renames it (spaces trimmed from both ends), key 1 to 15 with cmd (Ctrl, Command on macOS) and shift sets the function key F1 to F15 that plays it (0 or null: none), and color sets its Button Mode color (null or \"\": none); a param left out keeps what the action has, and cmd or shift alone changes that modifier of its key. Action function keys take priority over command shortcuts and preserve the command's binding. The panel menu's Action Options… (dialog `actionSetOptions` with set, action, name, key, cmd, shift and color) runs this for the selected action. An index past the last set or action, an empty name, a key or color that is not one of these, or a change that would give the set's action set file more than 8 MiB (counting the steps the recording in progress adds to it; a change that leaves the file as large or makes it smaller is never refused) is an error and changes nothing → {name, key, color}",
     ),
     (
         "ui.action.play",
@@ -1407,13 +1407,13 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "ui.action.record",
         "Begin Recording",
         "",
-        "{set?: index} begin recording an automatically named Action N in the Actions panel's set at set (0 is the top set), by default the current set or the first set; with no sets, make Set 1. The set becomes current, and ui.action.stop adds the recorded action after that set's existing actions. An explicit invalid set or an existing recording is an error and changes nothing → {set, name}",
+        "{set?: index} begin recording an automatically named Action N in the Actions panel's set at set (0 is the top set), by default the current set or the first set; with no sets, make Set 1. The set becomes current, and ui.action.stop adds the recorded action after that set's existing actions. An explicit invalid set, an existing recording, or a set where the new action would give it more than 1,000 actions or an action set file larger than 8 MiB is an error and changes nothing. While an action records, a recorded command whose step would give the action more than 10,000 steps or its set's action set file more than 8 MiB is an error and does not run, and the recording goes on. A recorded command whose step passes a limit only as it runs, from values it adds to its step, keeps its edit and result; the status bar names the limit, later recorded commands are an error and do not run, and ui.action.stop leaves its step out → {set, name}",
     ),
     (
         "ui.action.stop",
         "Stop Playing/Recording",
         "",
-        "{} end the Actions panel's recording and keep its steps, in the action ui.action.new made for it, else in a new action after the last action of its set, as the panel's Stop Playing/Recording button does. It also ends an action playing step by step or with pauses, or one waiting at a stop, whose message box closes: the steps played stay and the rest do not run. With nothing recording or playing it changes nothing → {stopped}",
+        "{} end the Actions panel's recording and keep its steps, in the action ui.action.new made for it, else in a new action after the last action of its set, as the panel's Stop Playing/Recording button does. It also ends an action playing step by step or with pauses, or one waiting at a stop, whose message box closes: the steps played stay and the rest do not run. Recorded steps still past 10,000 in the action, or past 8 MiB in its set's action set file, are left out, and the status bar names the limit. With nothing recording or playing it changes nothing → {stopped}",
     ),
     (
         "ui.action.insertStop",
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "ui.actionSet.load",
         "Load Actions…",
         "",
-        "{path? | data?: the file's text} read an action set file (.vcactions) at path, else a picked one, and add its set after the Actions panel's sets; a set named like one in the panel gets the next free number (Print 2), and the other sets stay. Files of another version, over 8 MiB, with more than 1,000 actions or with an action of more than 10,000 steps are refused; the panel menu's Load Actions… (disabled where there is no open dialog, the web) → {set: index, name, actions: n}. An action set another app saved as text (.aia, starting /version; read with actionSet.read) comes in with its actions. A step with a label and no recorded values comes in when exactly one menu command has that label (in English or the interface language, any case, no final …), and that command is directly in a top menu, can be recorded in actions, is what its menu bar item runs with no values and opens no dialog (never a submenu's item, a file or document command, Paste, Undo, Redo or an add-on's command), with no params and excluded from playback when it is off in the file; the other steps, every step with no label and every step recorded with values (a recorded menu item too) among them, are left out → {set, name, actions, skipped: [{action, step: its label, else its name}] (the first 1,000), leftOut: n}, and the status bar says how many were left out; a set with no name takes the file's name, else Actions; a file actionSet.read marks truncated is refused, and text that starts /version and isn't an action set gives \"not an action set file\"",
+        "{path? | data?: the file's text} read an action set file (.vcactions) at path, else a picked one, and add its set after the Actions panel's sets; a set named like one in the panel gets the next free number (Print 2), and the other sets stay. Files of another version, over 8 MiB, with more than 1,000 actions or with an action of more than 10,000 steps are refused, and so is any set, .aia ones too, that Save Actions… would write larger than 8 MiB (a file with less white space, or a name that gets a number); the panel menu's Load Actions… (disabled where there is no open dialog, the web) → {set: index, name, actions: n}. An action set another app saved as text (.aia, starting /version; read with actionSet.read) comes in with its actions. A step with a label and no recorded values comes in when exactly one menu command has that label (in English or the interface language, any case, no final …), and that command is directly in a top menu, can be recorded in actions, is what its menu bar item runs with no values and opens no dialog (never a submenu's item, a file or document command, Paste, Undo, Redo or an add-on's command), with no params and excluded from playback when it is off in the file; the other steps, every step with no label and every step recorded with values (a recorded menu item too) among them, are left out → {set, name, actions, skipped: [{action, step: its label, else its name}] (the first 1,000), leftOut: n}, and the status bar says how many were left out; a set with no name takes the file's name, else Actions; a file actionSet.read marks truncated is refused, and text that starts /version and isn't an action set gives \"not an action set file\"",
     ),
     (
         "ui.actionSet.delete",
@@ -1467,7 +1467,7 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         "ui.actionSet.duplicate",
         "Duplicate Action or Action Set",
         "",
-        "{set?: index, action?: index} copy the Actions panel's action at action in set (0 is the top set) to right after it in the same set; without action, copy set with all its actions to right after it (default: the current set). The copy is named after the original with \" copy\" added, a copied set gets an id of its own, and the copy is selected. The panel menu's Duplicate runs this for the selected action, else the current set. An index past the last set or action is an error → {set, action?}",
+        "{set?: index, action?: index} copy the Actions panel's action at action in set (0 is the top set) to right after it in the same set; without action, copy set with all its actions to right after it (default: the current set). The copy is named after the original with \" copy\" added, a copied set gets an id of its own, and the copy is selected. The panel menu's Duplicate runs this for the selected action, else the current set. An index past the last set or action, or a copy that would give its set more than 1,000 actions or an action set file larger than 8 MiB, is an error and copies nothing → {set, action?}",
     ),
     ("file.showPackage", "Show Package", "", "{folder} show a package folder (file.package's folder) in the file manager → {folder}"),
     (

crates/ui-egui/src/menus/ui_commands.rs

@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ pub const UI_COMMANDS: &[(&str, &str, &str, &str)] = &[
         crate::panels::actions::START_RECORDING,
         "Begin Recording",
         "",
-        "{set?: index} begin recording an automatically named Action N in the Actions panel's set at set (0 is the top set), by default the current set or the first set; with no sets, make Set 1. The set becomes current, and ui.action.stop adds the recorded action after that set's existing actions. An explicit invalid set, an existing recording, or a set where the new action would give it more than 1,000 actions or an action set file larger than 8 MiB is an error and changes nothing. While an action records, a recorded command whose step would give the action more than 10,000 steps or its set's action set file more than 8 MiB is an error and does not run, and the recording goes on → {set, name}",
+        "{set?: index} begin recording an automatically named Action N in the Actions panel's set at set (0 is the top set), by default the current set or the first set; with no sets, make Set 1. The set becomes current, and ui.action.stop adds the recorded action after that set's existing actions. An explicit invalid set, an existing recording, or a set where the new action would give it more than 1,000 actions or an action set file larger than 8 MiB is an error and changes nothing. While an action records, a recorded command whose step would give the action more than 10,000 steps or its set's action set file more than 8 MiB is an error and does not run, and the recording goes on. A recorded command whose step passes a limit only as it runs, from values it adds to its step, keeps its edit and result; the status bar names the limit, later recorded commands are an error and do not run, and ui.action.stop leaves its step out → {set, name}",
     ),
     (
         crate::panels::actions::STOP_RECORDING,