delete-app

A controlled way to remove a Microsoft App from the cloud service. It does not delete the local project files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when permanently deleting a cloud-hosted Microsoft App while keeping the local workspace available for separate cleanup.
Why use it?
It helps prevent accidental deletion by showing the app details and requiring explicit confirmation, including a second confirmation if a forced removal is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00028 $0.00941
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00094

Measured yesterday against content hash 3089d16b6ede, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

delete-app scanned grade C 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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf <project-dir>
plugins/microsoft-managed-apps/skills/delete-app/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 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. Two confirmations required; never auto---force.

Delete App

Removes the app from the service. The local workspace is NOT deleted by this skill — the user can clean it up afterward (this skill suggests the command but doesn't run it).

Workflow

  1. Memory Bank → 2. Resolve App ID → 3. Verify with Show → 4. First Confirmation → 5. Try Non-Force Delete → 6. If Service Says Force Required: Second Confirmation → 7. Suggest Local Cleanup → 8. Update Memory Bank

Step 1: Check Memory Bank

Read memory-bank.md for app slug + GUID + environment.

Step 2: Resolve App ID

test -f ms.config.json && APP_ID=$(node -p "require('./ms.config.json').appId" 2>/dev/null) || true

If no ms.config.json, ask the user for the app slug or GUID. Optionally invoke /list-apps to discover.

Step 3: Verify with Show

Before the destructive call, fetch the app metadata so the user sees what they're about to delete:

BIN=ms
$BIN app show --app "$APP_ID" --json

Display: display name, slug, app GUID, environment, version, creation date, last modified, share count if available.

Step 4: First Confirmation

"About to delete the app <display-name> (slug <slug>, GUID <guid>) from environment <env-name>. This removes the app from the service for all users — playing the app stops working immediately. Continue?"

Wait for explicit yes. If no, STOP — do not delete.

Step 5: Try Non-Force Delete

$BIN app delete --app "$APP_ID" --non-interactive

ms app delete is idempotent: if the app is already gone (HTTP 204) it emits a warning rather than erroring. Treat both existed: true and existed: false outcomes as success.

Step 6: If Service Says Force Required

If the service returns a non-2xx with a message like "delete requires --force" (the app has active shares, child resources, etc.), DO NOT auto-add --force. Instead, ask a second confirmation:

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. yesterday First seen · 99 lines · 28 tokens per session scan C 3089d16b6ede

Subscribe to this mod's changes

delete-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/managed-apps (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 941 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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