bc-symbol-lookup

bc-symbol-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from loacher-solution/bc-agent-plugin. It costs 68 tokens per session (634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An offline lookup tool for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a business-management system, that reads local app files and answers questions about its code objects.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find tables, fields, procedures, objects, and installed apps in local .app packages before they are referenced in code.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from guessing object numbers, field names, or procedure inputs and outputs when writing AL code for Business Central.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the bc-agent-plugin plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps find tables, fields, procedures, objects, and installed apps in local .app packages before they are referenced in code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/loacher-solution/bc-agent-plugin/bc-symbol-lookup
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.

Any agent
npx skills add loacher-solution/bc-agent-plugin --skill bc-symbol-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loacher-solution/bc-agent-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bc-agent-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 634 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 $0.00068 $0.00634
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00317
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00063

Measured 10d ago against content hash 11841affc655, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bc-symbol-lookup 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (server/bc-symbol-mcp.ps1, server/lib/AppFileReader.ps1, server/lib/McpServer.ps1, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/bc-symbol-lookup/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

bc-symbol-lookup

This skill is a local stdio MCP server that parses Business Central .app files offline and answers object/field/procedure queries. Register it in your project's .mcp.jsonbc-bootstrap does this automatically.

When to use

Whenever you need to know something about a BC object — your own, a BC standard object, or a third-party extension — before referencing it in AL code. Examples:

  • "What fields does the Customer table have?" → bc_get_fields
  • "What's the signature of Sales-Post.Run?" → bc_get_procedures
  • "Is there an object called Vendor Card?" → bc_find_object
  • "Find everything with 'Item' in the name" → bc_search
  • "Which apps are currently indexed?" → bc_list_apps

Hard rule

Never guess an object ID, field name, or procedure signature. Look it up first.

If a field, procedure, or object you need isn't in the index, the project's .alpackages/ is missing that app's symbols. Call al_downloadsymbols via the almcp MCP server with globalSourcesOnly=true to pull them, then re-run your lookup.

How it works

The server strips the 40-byte header from each .app file, detects Ready2Run wrappers and unwraps the inner .app (whose location varies across BC versions — we search any .app entry inside the outer zip), extracts SymbolReference.json, and walks the recursive Namespaces tree to build a flat in-memory index.

Indexing happens once at server startup. In v1 there is no filesystem watcher — if you run al_downloadsymbols mid-session to pull new symbols, the bc-symbols server must be restarted (re-run /bc-setup or restart Claude Code) before the new symbols are visible to lookups. Live re-indexing is on the v2 roadmap.

Object kinds handled: Table, TableExtension, Page, PageExtension, Codeunit, Report, ReportExtension, Query, XmlPort, Enum (both Enums and EnumTypes JSON shapes), EnumExtension, Interface, ControlAddIn, PermissionSet.

The server is pure read-only — it never touches the network, never calls a BC server, never runs the AL compiler.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 45 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 11841affc655

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bc-symbol-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository loacher-solution/bc-agent-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 634 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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