dv-overview

dv-overview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/Dataverse-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (5,017 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starting guide for work with Dataverse, Microsoft's cloud data platform used by Power Platform, Dynamics 365, CRM, and ERP systems. It explains the available tools, safety rules, and workflow, then points to more specific skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task involves Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, CRM, or ERP, especially at the beginning of the task.
Why use it?
It gives the agent shared context before making changes or answering questions about Dataverse. This reduces the risk of using the wrong tool or skipping a required safety step.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dataverse plugin — 8 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/Dataverse-skills --skill dv-overview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Dataverse-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for dv-overview

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-overview)
Your own site
<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="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,017 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00077 $0.05017
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.02508
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01003
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00502

Measured 4d ago against content hash 04b225247b23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 4d 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
.github/plugins/dataverse/skills/dv-overview/SKILL.md · 242 lines

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
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 canvas or 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 242 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 04b225247b23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dv-overview is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Dataverse-skills (213 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 5,017 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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