deploy

A release workflow for building and sending a Microsoft App from the current project to the cloud. It checks the project, account, source-control state, and deployment choice first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify, commit, push, build, and deploy a Microsoft App, with an optional link between the deployment and build status.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of deploying from the wrong project, account, or uncommitted code. It also requires confirmation before the cloud release.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,438 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 $0.00032 $0.01438
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00719
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00144

Measured yesterday against content hash 37fdbe8f2a2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy 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 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.

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/deploy/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 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. Always confirm before deploy.

Deploy

Builds and deploys the app in the current directory.

Before any deploy, sync source control first: stage all changes, create a commit, and push to remote.

Workflow

  1. Memory Bank → 2. Verify Project + Env → 3. Pick Path → 4. Build Verification → 5. Git Sync (Add + Commit + Push) → 6. Confirm + Deploy → 7. Update Memory Bank

Step 1: Check Memory Bank

Read memory-bank.md for app slug, GUID, environment, and version.

Step 2: Verify Project + Env

test -f ms.config.json || { echo "Not in a Microsoft App workspace."; exit 1; }
git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "Not in a git repository."; exit 1; }
BIN=ms
$BIN auth status                                         # must report the expected UPN

If auth is stale or the wrong account, stop and have the user run $BIN auth login.

Step 3: Pick a Deploy Path

Ask the user which path:

Path When
Standard deploy (ms app deploy [--commit <sha>]) Default. Use for normal release flow. --commit defaults to git rev-parse HEAD.
Traced deploy (ms app build + ms app build-status + ms app deploy) Use when the user needs explicit build-id tracking before deploy.

ms app build -c <sha> + ms app build-status -o <build-id> is a third (older) two-step variant for the cloud-built path. The build subcommand is marked deprecated in the CLI source but still works; use it only when the user wants an explicit build-id to track. Otherwise, ms app deploy is the single-step replacement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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 · 148 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 37fdbe8f2a2a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/managed-apps (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,438 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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