Re: Executing Org Code Block w/o Confirmation?

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 7:58=E2=80=AFPM Brendan Leber <brendan@brendanleber=
.com>
wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> Generally I want confirmation before executing code blocks in org-mode
> files.  However, there are
> some that are non-destructive and I would like those to just execute.
> Reading the manual and info
> pages it seems I can disable confirmation for executing every code block,
> or disable confirmation on
> a language by language basis.  Is there a way to disable the confirmation
> for a block like shown
> below?
>
>     #+begin_src sh :eval yes
>       curl --insecure --silent -X 'GET' \
>         'https://10.10.11.154/api/v1/foo/bar' \
>         -H 'accept: application/json' \
>         -H 'Authorization: apikey=3Dsekrit'
>     #+end_src
>
>
I was just working on something like this myself yesterday - it's probably
on the ugly side - but this is what I use for stopping certain sql
statements from auto-running while allowing "safe: true" as an override -
obviously you would replace safe with eval

(defun my-org-confirm-babel-evaluate (lang body)
  "Respect safe: header for confirmation."
  (let* ((info (org-babel-get-src-block-info 'light))
         (headers (nth 2 info))
         (safe (alist-get 'safe: headers)))
    (cond
     ;; If :safe is "true", respect it
     ((string=3D "true" safe) nil)
     ;; For SQL: confirm only for dangerous commands

     ((string=3D lang "sql")
      (string-match-p
       (regexp-opt '("DROP" "DELETE" "UPDATE" "ALTER" "CREATE" "INSERT"
"TRUNCATE") 'words)
       (upcase body)))
     ;; For other languages: always confirm
     (t t)
     )))

(setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate 'my-org-confirm-babel-evaluate)