Microsoft Managed Apps is a project for building custom web applications with React, TypeScript, and Vite, and it provides Microsoft's official templates and development tooling. Developers use its SDK, CLI, and Vite plugin to create and manage these applications. Its catalogue add-ons help AI coding agents build Microsoft Managed Apps.
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.
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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 | $0.00049 | $0.03449 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.01380 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00690 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00345 |
Grade A, and why
add-workiq 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 446 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.
Add Work IQ Copilot MCP (Wrapper)
This skill is a thin wrapper. Use /add-data-source as the single implementation path.
Delegation contract
Invoke /add-data-source with:
api-id:shared_a365copilotchatmcpmode:action
Work IQ Integration: MCP Session Pattern
After the connector is added, you'll have access to WorkIQCopilotMCPService. Work IQ uses MCP (Model Context Protocol), a stateful protocol. Use the McpSession wrapper class to manage this properly.
Setup: Create McpSession Wrapper
⚠️ CRITICAL: The McpSession implementation is complex. Copy the production-ready code below exactly. It handles session negotiation, auto-retry on errors, proper JSON-RPC ID sequencing, and response parsing.
Create src/connectors/mcpClient.ts:
import type { IOperationResult } from '@microsoft/managed-apps/data'
import { WorkIQCopilotMCPService } from '../../generated/services/WorkIQCopilotMCPService'
import type { QueryRequest } from '../../generated/models/WorkIQCopilotMCPModel'
export interface JsonRpcRequest {
jsonrpc: '2.0'
id?: string
method: string
params?: Record<string, unknown>
}
export interface JsonRpcResponse {
jsonrpc?: string
id?: string
result?: Record<string, unknown>
error?: { code?: number; message?: string; data?: unknown }
}
type CopilotConversationMessage = {
text?: string
attributions?: Array<{ attributionType?: string; providerDisplayName?: string; seeMoreWebUrl?: string }>
}
type CopilotConversation = {
messages?: CopilotConversationMessage[]
}
function parseRpc(result: IOperationResult<unknown>): JsonRpcResponse {
if (!result.success && result.error) {
return { error: { message: result.error.message } }
}
const data: unknown = result.data
if (data == null) return {}
if (typeof data === 'object') return data as JsonRpcResponse
if (typeof data === 'string') {
const dataLines = data
.split(/\r?\n/)
.filter((line) => line.startsWith('data:'))
.map((line) => line.slice(5).trim())
const payload = dataLines.length ? dataLines.join('') : data
try {
return JSON.parse(payload) as JsonRpcResponse
} catch {
return { result: { raw: data } }
}
}
return { result: { raw: data } }
}
export class McpSession {
private nextId = 1
private sessionId: string | undefined
private conversationId: string | undefined
private initialized = false
private extractSessionId(raw: IOperationResult<unknown>): string | undefined {
const container = raw as unknown as Record<string, unknown>
const dataObj =
raw.data && typeof raw.data === 'object' ? (raw.data as Record<string, unknown>) : undefined
const resultObj =
dataObj?.result && typeof dataObj.result === 'object'
? (dataObj.result as Record<string, unknown>)
: undefined
const candidates: Array<unknown> = [
dataObj?.['Mcp-Session-Id'],
dataObj?.mcpSessionId,
dataObj?.sessionId,
resultObj?.['Mcp-Session-Id'],
resultObj?.mcpSessionId,
resultObj?.sessionId,
container['Mcp-Session-Id'],
container.mcpSessionId,
container.sessionId,
]
const found = candidates.find((value) => typeof value === 'string' && value.length > 0)
return typeof found === 'string' ? found : undefined
}
private isSessionNotFound(res: JsonRpcResponse): boolean {
const message = (res.error?.message ?? '').toLowerCase()
return message.includes('session not found') || res.error?.code === -32001
}
private resetSession(): void {
this.sessionId = undefined
this.initialized = false
}
private async send(
method: string,
params?: Record<string, unknown>,
allowRetry = true
): Promise<JsonRpcResponse> {
const req: JsonRpcRequest = { jsonrpc: '2.0', id: String(this.nextId++), method, params }
const raw = (await WorkIQCopilotMCPService.mcp_m365copilot(
this.sessionId,
req as QueryRequest
)) as unknown as IOperationResult<unknown>
const negotiatedSessionId = this.extractSessionId(raw)
if (negotiatedSessionId) {
this.sessionId = negotiatedSessionId
}
const parsed = parseRpc(raw)
if (allowRetry && method !== 'initialize' && this.isSessionNotFound(parsed)) {
this.resetSession()
await this.initialize()
return this.send(method, params, false)
}
return parsed
}
async initialize(): Promise<JsonRpcResponse> {
const res = await this.send('initialize', {
protocolVersion: '2025-06-18',
capabilities: {},
clientInfo: { name: 'Custom App', version: '1.0.0' },
})
this.initialized = !res.error
return res
}
async callCopilotChat(message: string): Promise<{ text: string; conversationId?: string }> {
if (!this.initialized) await this.initialize()
const raw = await this.send('tools/call', {
name: 'CopilotChat',
arguments: {
message,
...(this.conversationId ? { conversationId: this.conversationId } : {}),
},
})
const parsed = extractCopilotText(raw)
if (parsed.conversationId) {
this.conversationId = parsed.conversationId
}
return { text: parsed.text, conversationId: parsed.conversationId }
}
}
function extractContentText(res: JsonRpcResponse): string | undefined {
const content = res.result?.content as Array<{ type?: string; text?: string }> | undefined
if (!Array.isArray(content)) {
return undefined
}
const textBlocks = content
.filter((c) => c.type === 'text' && typeof c.text === 'string')
.map((c) => c.text!.trim())
.filter((value) => value.length > 0)
if (textBlocks.length === 0) {
return undefined
}
// Prefer the JSON payload block. Some responses append metadata text blocks
// such as "CorrelationId: ..." that should not be concatenated.
const jsonBlock = textBlocks.find(
(block) => block.startsWith('{') && /"conversationId"|"rawResponse"|"reply"/.test(block)
)
if (jsonBlock) {
return jsonBlock
}
const nonMetadata = textBlocks.find((block) => !/^CorrelationId\s*:/i.test(block))
return nonMetadata ?? textBlocks[0]
}
export function extractCopilotText(res: JsonRpcResponse): { text: string; conversationId?: string } {
if (res.error) {
return { text: `Error: ${res.error.message ?? JSON.stringify(res.error)}` }
}
const rawText = extractContentText(res)
if (!rawText) {
return { text: res.result ? JSON.stringify(res.result, null, 2) : '(no content returned)' }
}
try {
const inner = JSON.parse(rawText) as {
conversationId?: string
reply?: string
message?: string
rawResponse?: string
}
if (typeof inner.rawResponse === 'string') {
try {
const convo = JSON.parse(inner.rawResponse) as CopilotConversation
const messages = Array.isArray(convo.messages) ? convo.messages : []
const attributed = messages.find(
(m) => Array.isArray(m.attributions) && m.attributions.length > 0
)
const selected = attributed ?? messages[1] ?? messages[messages.length - 1]
const replyText = selected?.text?.trim()
if (replyText) {
return { text: replyText, conversationId: inner.conversationId }
}
} catch {
// Fall through to simple reply extraction.
}
}
const fallbackText = inner.reply?.trim() || inner.message?.trim() || rawText
return { text: fallbackText, conversationId: inner.conversationId }
} catch {
return { text: rawText }
}
}
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.
- 5d ago Changed · -2 lines 7f981c71027f
- 2mo ago Changed af8284f6032c
- 2mo ago First seen · 448 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A c6b55260789a
add-workiq is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/managed-apps (36 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,449 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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