add-connector

A standard procedure for adding connectors to Microsoft Managed Apps. Connectors link an app to an external service or API, and can expose data as tables or actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover and add a connector with the Microsoft Managed Apps command-line tool, either as a table or an action.
Why use it?
It centralizes connector setup and helps resolve the correct API identifier, authentication, and workspace details.

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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/managed-apps/add-connector
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/managed-apps --skill add-connector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/managed-apps

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,070 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00053 $0.02070
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01035
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00207

Measured 2d ago against content hash e9ce21b8af10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-connector 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 2d 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.

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.

plugins/microsoft-managed-apps/skills/add-connector/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

📋 Shared Instructions: shared-instructions.md — Cross-cutting concerns.

Reference: connector-reference.md — Inline connection creation, Grep-first for large generated files.

Add Connector (Canonical)

This is the single implementation for all connector-binding skills.

Delegation model:

  • Specialized /add-* skills (e.g., /add-office365, /add-workiq) delegate to this skill with presets
  • If this skill is called from a wrapper, do not delegate back
  • If this skill is called directly, complete the workflow without delegation

After the connector is added:

  • If invoked via a specialized skill → Refer to that specialized skill's documentation for usage patterns (it was already provided)
  • If invoked directly → Identify which specialized skill matches your use case and refer to its documentation for:
    • Correct import paths for generated services
    • Best practices for using the connector
    • Common patterns and implementation examples
    • Error handling guidance

This ensures developers have complete context for implementing features, not just adding the connector.

Workflow

  1. Verify workspace + auth.
  2. Resolve api-id (discover via ms connector list if the user didn't supply one), mode, and required arguments.
  3. Run the matching ms app add ... command.
  4. Run npm run build.
  5. Record the binding in memory-bank.md if present.

Step 1: Verify Project + Env

test -f ms.config.json || { echo "Not in a Microsoft App workspace."; exit 1; }
BIN=ms
$BIN auth status

Step 2: Resolve Inputs

Collect:

  • api-id (required — see resolution order below). Passed to the CLI via --connector <api-id>.
  • mode = action | table (controls the --as flag). There is no procedure mode — binding a specific SQL stored procedure is not exposed by the current CLI (see note below).
  • connection-id (optional interactive, required for non-interactive where applicable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 2d ago First seen · 172 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A e9ce21b8af10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-connector is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/managed-apps (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,070 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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