microsoft/BCQuality is a structured knowledge base and skills library for Microsoft Business Central development. It records Business Central-specific rules and platform behaviors that coding agents or developers might otherwise get wrong. The catalogue entries provide the agents and skill that consume this guidance.
Getting it into your agent
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npx agentmods add agents/microsoft/bcquality/do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-backgroundgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/BCQualityWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/bcquality/do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/bcquality/do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/bcquality/do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00297 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00148 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Do not create agent instances from install, upgrade, or background sessions
Description
Agent.Create requires an interactive user session. The platform blocks creation from install codeunits, upgrade codeunits, and background sessions (job queue, scheduled tasks). Packaging an agent in an app does not mean spinning up instances at install. Models still call Create from OnInstallAppPerCompany to activate the agent.
Best Practice
Create instances from a setup page, a wizard, or another UI-driven path after the user is in a client session. Apply instructions and Activate there. For existing companies after an upgrade, document that an admin must open setup; do not create from the upgrade codeunit.
See sample: do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background.good.al.
Anti Pattern
Agent.Create inside OnInstallAppPerCompany, OnUpgradePerCompany, or a job-queue codeunit. The call fails at runtime even if it compiles. Detection signal: Agent.Create in Subtype = Install, Subtype = Upgrade, or a non-UI session.
See sample: do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background.bad.al.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a451f0255a5e
do-not-create-agents-in-install-upgrade-or-background is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/BCQuality (206 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 297 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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