microsoft/Dataverse-skills is a collection of skills that lets AI coding agents build, query, deploy, and administer Microsoft Dataverse environments and linked Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations systems. It is for working with Dataverse data models, records, solutions, and Finance and Operations development through natural-language instructions. The catalogue entries are the skills and plugin that operate the Dataverse tools and workflows.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Dataverse-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-connectWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-connect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-connect.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 11 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Agent Snooping · line 25 Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
- high Privilege Escalation · line 144 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- high Privilege Escalation · line 169 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- high Privilege Escalation · line 190 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- high Agent Snooping · line 248 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 284 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- high Agent Snooping · line 285 Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
- medium Rogue Agent · line 210 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 260 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 282 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 313 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00066 | $0.05022 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.02009 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.01004 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00502 |
Grade B, and why
dv-connect scanned grade B with 2 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
**For Codex:** Write the TOML config to `~/.codex/config.toml`. Codex loads MCP tools only at startup, so don't claim they're callable until the user restarts. Tell the user: Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -sI https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/ \ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 349 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill: Connect
One-step, idempotent Dataverse connection. Each step checks if it's already done and skips.
Environment-First Rule — All metadata and plugin registrations are created in the environment via API/scripts, then pulled into the repo. Never hand-write solution XML to create components.
Execute steps in order; do not skip ahead. Exception: Step 0 can short-circuit the flow if the workspace is already set up.
Host entry test (FIRST — before Step 0). A local Windows/macOS host is capable by default, whichever agent drives it — it can run the CLIs, use persistent credentials, and host local MCP servers; an approval/sandbox gate isn't a constraint, and a missing CLI = install it. Constrained only when a runtime can't start, auth can't persist, or the host is explicitly ChatGPT Work Mode / Codex cloud / CI / no-keyring Linux (deterministic table: headless-hosts.md). Constrained → install only Python + pip deps,
.env,scripts/auth.py, verifypython scripts/auth.py --check, skip CLI / PAC / MCP. Capable → normal flow below.
Step 0: Detect existing setup (run this first)
Before touching anything, check whether this workspace is already connected to a Dataverse environment. Repeating setup on an already-configured workspace overwrites .env, re-registers MCP, and wastes time.
Gemini supports GA only. If Preview is requested, explain and stop before setup shortcuts.
Run these checks in order. If all four pass, skip straight to Step 7 (final verification) and stop there.
.envis present and complete — file exists at the workspace root and contains non-empty values forDATAVERSE_URL,TENANT_ID, andMCP_CLIENT_ID- MCP is registered — the host MCP list has a
dataverse-*entry, or Gemini has its bundleddataverseentry, pointing atDATAVERSE_URL - Both auth surfaces match
.env—dataverse auth whoshows a profile whoseEnvironment UrlmatchesDATAVERSE_URL, ANDpac org whoagainst a PAC profile for the same URL succeeds. (DV CLI auth covers Connect / Data / Query / Metadata / MCP / Python; PAC auth coversdv-solutionanddv-admin. Both are front-loaded at connect time so neither prompts later.) - Python SDK is importable and current —
python -c "from PowerPlatform.Dataverse.client import DataverseClient; import pandas; from importlib.metadata import version; v=version('PowerPlatform-Dataverse-Client'); parts=tuple(int(p) for p in v.split('.')[:2]); assert parts>=(1,1), f'SDK {v} is outdated, need >=1.1.0'"exits 0
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.
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.
- 10d ago Changed c72610f1af17
- 17d ago Changed · -5 lines 8cef7f5becce
- 20d ago Changed · +1 lines 353416f99ba1
- 23d ago Changed · -1 lines 3f641931e948
- 1mo ago Changed · +15 tokens per session d02b9f54804f
- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 524f2b219e5c
- 1mo ago First seen · 353 lines · 51 tokens per session scan B 0dd6124ae76b
dv-connect is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Dataverse-skills (247 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 5,022 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, 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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