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Hi all,
I’ve been facing a strange issue and I’d love to know if anyone else has experienced something similar — or if this could be a bug.

We have two scripting extensions in our base:

  • Delete XXX File

  • Generate INBOUND XXX File

Both are configured to only run when a user manually clicks the "Run" button. There are no automation triggers, no time-based triggers, and no webhook or external script that could be calling them.

Despite this, these scripts executed themselves on two different days:

  • June 12th, 2025

  • June 26th, 2025

Only one execution occurred each day. No user was interacting with the base at that time. These scripts do call a Google Apps Script via fetch(), but that Apps Script has no time triggers or onEdit triggers either — it only responds to manual activation via Airtable’s scripting extension.

We checked:

  • Activity logs: no evidence of user-initiated runs.

  • Apps Script executions: no trigger before the Airtable script call.

  • Other tools (Zapier, Make, etc.): not involved at all.

This setup has been working for over a year without any unexpected runs — these two events are the first and only exceptions. But happened very close to each other in a few days.

Has anyone else experienced phantom executions of scripting extensions (without automation or clicks)?
 

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