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-overviewWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 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 Privilege Escalation · line 57 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 Tool Misuse · line 223 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 | $0.00098 | $0.05092 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00039 | $0.02037 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.01018 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00509 |
Grade A, and why
dv-overview scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- **Raw Web API is the last-resort escape hatch** for surfaces with no managed path (unbound actions like `PublishXml`, global option sets, anything without a first-class SDK/CLI command) — and even then prefer `datavers How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill: Overview — What to Use and When
Load this skill first for any Dataverse work — it holds the cross-cutting context every task needs: scope, the tool-capability reference, the hard rules, and the change lifecycle. It does not route; the agent auto-selects specialist skills via their own WHEN/DO NOT USE WHEN frontmatter triggers. Users describe what they want in plain English; the agent chains skills automatically and never asks the user to name a skill or command.
What This Plugin Covers
Dataverse / Power Platform work for every persona — builders and agent devs, data scientists, environment admins, and business users — delivered by specialist skills. The agent loads and routes to these automatically via their frontmatter triggers — you never invoke them by name.
| Area | Skill |
|---|---|
| Connect, authenticate, configure MCP, verify the environment | dv-connect |
| Schema — tables, columns, relationships, forms, views; inspect existing schema | dv-metadata |
| Data writes — record CRUD, bulk create/update/upsert, CSV/FK-ordered import, sample data | dv-data |
| Data reads & analytics — OData queries, QueryBuilder, FetchXML (aggregation + N:N joins), DataFrames | dv-query |
| Solution ALM — create, export, import, pack/unpack, post-import validation | dv-solution |
| Finance and Operations X++ — author, build, deploy, DB sync, verify | erp-xpp |
| Environment administration — bulk delete, retention/archival, org & OrgDB settings, recycle bin | dv-admin |
| Security & access — roles, users, application users, business units, self-elevation (PAC CLI) | dv-security |
Model-driven apps: the building blocks (tables, forms, views) are covered by dv-metadata; composing the app shell itself — site map and navigation — is not yet a first-class skill.
Out of scope:
- Canvas apps — a different technology; use
pac canvasor the maker portal - Power Automate flows — use the maker portal or the Power Automate Management API
- Azure infrastructure beyond what's needed for service-principal setup
- Business Central or other Dynamics products
What ships with it
2 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 05a5e81bb41a
- 1mo ago Changed · +21 tokens per session 6c4f76edcbe2
- 1mo ago Changed f05e8ff7e5be
- 1mo ago First seen · 242 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 04b225247b23
dv-overview is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Dataverse-skills (247 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 5,092 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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