alm

alm is a skill for Claude Code from korchard333/claude-power-platform-community. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Application Lifecycle Management for Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft's tools for building business apps and automations. It covers moving solutions safely between development, test, and production environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Power Platform Pipelines, solution deployment, environment variables, or connection references.
Why use it?
It helps prevent deployment mistakes such as hardcoded settings, human accounts in automated pipelines, invalid connection references, and unchecked solutions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is --zipfile ./out/MySolution.zip \.

Good fit Use it when setting up CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Power Platform Pipelines, solution deployment, environment variables, or connection references.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/korchard333/claude-power-platform-community
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/korchard333/claude-power-platform-community/alm

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,043 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.04043
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02021
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00809
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00404

Measured 10d ago against content hash c282ff521944, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alm 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 10d 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.

.claude/skills/alm/SKILL.md · 544 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 544 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

When to Use

Trigger when designing deployment pipelines, managing solutions, promoting across environments, or setting up CI/CD for Power Platform.


ALM Golden Rules

  1. Never import unmanaged solutions to Test or Production
  2. Every environment needs a dedicated service principal — no human accounts in pipelines
  3. Environment variables must be set per environment — never hardcoded
  4. Connection references must be pre-created before solution import
  5. Solution version must increment on every build (major.minor.build.revision)
  6. Always run Solution Checker before promoting to Test/Prod

⚠️ REQUIRED: Load Sub-Files Before Implementation

SKILL.md is a summary only — it is NOT sufficient for implementation.

The detailed content (complete payloads, XML templates, working examples, edge-case handling) lives in sub-files in the same directory as this SKILL.md. Before writing any code, you MUST use read_file on the sub-files relevant to your task:

  • Developer Inner Loop — Three development loops (Web API direct, pac code push, pac solution sync), when to use each, day-to-day workflows
  • Git Integration — Native Git integration in maker portal, deploy from Git (2026 wave 1), branch strategies for Power Platform, Azure DevOps Boards integration
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines — ADO pipeline YAML templates, service connections, multi-stage deployment, variable groups

Solution Lifecycle

Developer writes code / configures in Dev (unmanaged)
  ↓
Export solution from Dev → Unpack to source control
  ↓
CI pipeline: Pack → Solution Checker → Build managed artifact
  ↓
CD pipeline: Import managed solution to Test → Smoke test
  ↓
CD pipeline: Import managed solution to UAT → User acceptance
  ↓
CD pipeline: Import managed solution to Production → Go live

Code Apps ALM

Development Workflow

# Local development (no environment needed for initial dev)
npx degit microsoft/PowerAppsCodeApps/templates/starter my-app
cd my-app && npm install
npm run dev                    # http://localhost:5173

# Connect to Power Platform
pac code init --displayname "My App"
pac code add-data-source -a dataverse -t contact

# Deploy to Dev environment
npm run build
pac code push                                     # Preferred solution
pac code push --solutionName "ContosoCodeApp"     # Named solution

Read the full file on GitHub · 544 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 544 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A c282ff521944

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alm is a skill published in the GitHub repository korchard333/claude-power-platform-community (47 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,043 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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