What is canvas-authoring?

An MCP server for authoring Microsoft Power Apps canvas apps, which are apps built on a visual screen-and-control layout.

For authoring Power Apps canvas apps through the configured MCP server.

It provides a configured connection to Microsoft's canvas-app authoring tools, although the supplied details do not list individual operations.

canvas-authoring — MCP server for Claude Code by microsoft

About the project

microsoft/power-platform-skills is a plugin marketplace containing reusable skills, agents, and commands for developing with Microsoft Power Platform. Developers use it to build and deploy Power Pages sites, model-driven Power Apps, and related solutions through Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. The catalogue entries are the marketplace's included skills, agents, plugins, and other agent components.

microsoft/power-platform-skills · 851 stars · on GitHub · aka.ms

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canvas-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/microsoft/power-platform-skills/canvas-apps-canvas-authoring/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/mcp/microsoft/power-platform-skills/canvas-apps-canvas-authoring)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/microsoft/power-platform-skills/canvas-apps-canvas-authoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/microsoft/power-platform-skills/canvas-apps-canvas-authoring/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/mcp/microsoft/power-platform-skills/canvas-apps-canvas-authoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/mcp/microsoft/power-platform-skills/canvas-apps-canvas-authoring.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

canvas-authoring 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 today.

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.

plugins/canvas-apps/.mcp.json · 9 lines

What it actually says

{
  "canvas-authoring": {
    "command": "dnx",
    "args": [
      "Microsoft.PowerApps.CanvasAuthoring.McpServer",
      "--yes"
    ]
  }
}

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.

today Changed · -1 lines 372c6ebe59f7
11d ago First seen · 10 lines scan A cc15cb033cd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

canvas-authoring is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (851 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. 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 2026-08-30.

Frontend claude-code-plugin claude-code-skills code-apps power-apps power-pages power-platform

canvas-authoring

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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