Form Responses

Viewing Responses

Use list-responses to see submissions for a specific form:

pnpm action list-responses --form <form-id> [--limit 50]

This shows each response with field labels and values, ordered by submission date (newest first).

For chart/table analytics, prefer response-insights:

# All recent accessible forms
pnpm action response-insights

# One form
pnpm action response-insights --formId <form-id> --days 30 --limit 300

response-insights returns an explicit first-party widget payload:

• widget: "data-insights"
• chartSeries for submissions by day
• table for recent response rows
• summary with total, sampled, and truncation details

Native chat renderers should use that contract for first-party tables/charts. MCP Apps/iframe rendering is only a fallback for external hosts.

For form setup/configuration previews, use preview-form:

pnpm action preview-form --formId <form-id>

It returns a native inline summary/table with the form fields, response count, status, visibility, and an "Open editor" action.

Exporting Responses

Use export-responses to export to CSV or JSON. The export is uploaded to configured file storage (never written to local disk — serverless hosts have a read-only filesystem) and the action returns the resulting file URL:

# CSV export (default)
pnpm action export-responses --form <form-id>

# JSON export
pnpm action export-responses --form <form-id> --format json

The CSV includes headers derived from field labels. Array values (multiselect) are joined with semicolons.

Response Data Structure

Each response is stored in the responses SQL table:

Column	Type	Description
id	text	Unique response ID
formId	text	Foreign key to the form
data	text	JSON string of field ID -> value map
submittedAt	text	ISO timestamp
ip	text	Submitter IP when available
submitterEmail	text	Submitter email hint when known
pageUrl	text	Page the respondent was on, if sent
clientSurface	text	App surface: web, electron, or tauri

submitterEmail may come from the logged-in Forms session or from trusted feedback clients that pass the logged-in user email as submission metadata.

pageUrl and clientSurface are hidden pass-through fields. Direct public fills record the current form URL, while trusted embeds (e.g. the framework FeedbackButton) forward the respondent's source page and runtime shell (web, electron, or tauri) so owners can see which screen and app feedback came from. Sensitive URL query keys are scrubbed before persistence, clientSurface is allowlisted server-side (unknown values are dropped), and anonymous forms suppress both fields. The responses table surfaces them as "Page" and "Source" columns when any response carries them.

The data JSON maps field IDs to values:

{
  "name": "Alice Smith",
  "email": "alice@example.com",
  "rating": 5,
  "interests": ["design", "development"]
}

Analyzing Responses

To analyze responses, the workflow is:

1. list-forms to find the form ID
2. preview-form --formId <id> when the question is about setup or fields
3. response-insights --formId <id> for counts, daily submissions, and table data
4. Use list-responses --formId <id> only when exact row-level inspection is needed
5. Report whether the answer is exact or sampled, including row counts and truncation

For an actionable theme, ground one concise title and evidence line in the response-insights result, then call show-response-insight with a specific follow-up prompt. Its button only prefills the Forms chat; it does not submit or change the form.

Common Tasks

User request	What to do
"@Form setup?"	preview-form --formId <id> and answer from the returned fields/settings
"How many responses?"	response-insights --formId <id> and report summary.responses
"Export to CSV"	export-responses --form <id>
"Submissions by day"	response-insights --formId <id> --days 30
"Summarize feedback"	response-insights, then list-responses if more detail is needed
"Average rating"	list-responses, compute from rating fields and state the sampled row count
"Who submitted today?"	list-responses, filter by submittedAt

Related Skills

• form-building — Understanding the form structure and field types
• actions — All response operations go through actions