a365-setup

a365-setup is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/agent365-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (11,036 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guided setup process for registering a non-AI-Teammate agent with Agent 365, Microsoft's system for connecting agents with identity, discovery, and related services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to onboard an agent, create its Agent 365 blueprint, and configure registration, observability, WorkIQ, or other supported capabilities.
Why use it?
It checks the command-line tools and Azure prerequisites and helps choose the setup path, so registration is not assembled from incomplete or incompatible settings.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent365 plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to onboard an agent, create its Agent 365 blueprint, and configure registration, observability, WorkIQ, or other supported capabilities.

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About the project

Microsoft Agent 365 Skills is a collection of coding-agent skills and MCP configuration for building and operating AI Teammates hosted in Microsoft Teams. It supports the Agent 365 lifecycle, including WorkIQ integration, registration, observability, validation, and local testing, for users of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.

microsoft/agent365-skills · 51 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/agent365-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install agent365

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent365, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,036 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00125 $0.11036
Opus 5.5 $0.00050 $0.04414
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.02207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.01104

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3cfe473fffb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

a365-setup scanned grade D with 3 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 2mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

> - **Linux:** `curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash`

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

> - **Linux:** `curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

> - **Linux:** `curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash`
plugins/agent365/skills/a365-setup/SKILL.md · 836 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 836 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent 365 CLI Setup

Trigger phrases — any of these will activate this skill automatically:

  • "set up agent 365 for this agent"
  • "run a365 setup"
  • "onboard this agent to agent 365"
  • "register this agent with agent 365"
  • "provision this agent with agent 365"
  • "add agent 365 to this agent"
  • "connect this agent to agent 365"
  • "make this agent an a365 agent"
  • "make this agent discoverable in Agent 365"
  • "create a365 blueprint"
  • "start agent 365 setup"

YOUR VERY FIRST ACTION: Output the intro message below to the user, then silently detect the agent stack. Do NOT create todos, run setup commands, or read further until all Phase 1 questions are answered.

MANDATORY INTRO MESSAGE — output this before doing anything else:

I'll help you set up Agent 365 for this agent. Here's what I'll do:

  1. Detect your agent type, stack, and language (silently, takes a few seconds)
  2. Ask you to confirm what I found — or correct anything I got wrong
  3. Ask how your agent authenticates (OBO / S2S)
  4. Ask which capabilities you want (Register, Observability, WorkIQ, AI Teammate)

After those answers, I'll install any missing prerequisites, validate your Azure
environment, and hand off to the right skill for the rest of setup.

Detecting your agent now…

RULE 1 — DETECT AGENT STACK AND CODE, ASK VALIDATION QUESTIONS, THEN CREATE ALL TODOS.

Phase 1A: Silent Detection

First: Check for detection cache. Read .a365-workspace-detection.local.json if it exists. If detectedAt is within the last 60 minutes, load agentStack, programmingLanguage, and usesTeamsOrCopilot from it and skip the detection steps below — go straight to Phase 1B.

Run all three detection steps in parallel (single tool call with multiple Glob/Grep):

Step 1: Detect Agent Stack → Store as agentStack

  • Check for .csproj + Microsoft.Agents.* → Agent Framework
  • Check for package.json + @langchain → LangChain
  • Check for package.json + "openai" (no LangChain) → OpenAI
  • Check for requirements.txt + langchain → LangChain
  • Check for requirements.txt + openai → OpenAI

Read the full file on GitHub · 836 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 836 lines · 125 tokens per session scan D 3cfe473fffb8

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a365-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agent365-skills (51 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 11,036 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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