show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create

show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create is an agent for coding agents from microsoft/BCQuality. It costs 0 tokens per session (287 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule describing what ShowCanCreateAgent controls: whether an agent type appears in the in-client creation screen. It does not prevent code from calling Agent.Create.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when controlling agent discovery in the user interface and enforcing separate permission checks for code-driven creation.
Why use it?
It prevents a misleading security assumption that hiding an option in the interface also blocks programmatic creation.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/microsoft/bcquality/show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/BCQuality

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 287 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00287
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00029

Measured yesterday against content hash 583c3a0e9296, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create 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 yesterday.

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.

community/knowledge/agents/show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

ShowCanCreateAgent only hides UI create, not programmatic create

Description

IAgentFactory.ShowCanCreateAgent controls whether the type appears in the in-client create UI. Returning false does not stop Agent.Create from AL. From 28.1, non-admins can discover extension agents unless this method (and agent configuration rights) restrict them. Models treat a false return as a hard create lock.

Best Practice

Use ShowCanCreateAgent to decide discovery. If only agent administrators should see the type, return Agent System Permissions.CurrentUserHasCanManageAllAgentsPermission. Enforce extra policy inside your own create API. Never assume UI hiding blocks code.

See sample: show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create.good.al.

Anti Pattern

Returning exit(false) from ShowCanCreateAgent and then documenting that instances cannot be created, while page actions or other apps still call Agent.Create. Detection signal: ShowCanCreateAgent always false with no matching guard on programmatic create.

See sample: show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create.bad.al.

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 583c3a0e9296

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show-can-create-agent-does-not-block-code-create is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/BCQuality (204 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 287 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.