A tool for finding Microsoft apps visible to the signed-in account in the active environment. It can list all visible apps or show detailed information for one app.

List available apps or inspect one app's name, ID, environment, version, build information, and other metadata.

It removes the need to search for app identifiers and metadata manually. The results are limited to the account's current environment.

list-apps — Skill for Claude Code by microsoft/managed-apps

About the project

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.

microsoft/managed-apps · 36 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent

npx skills add microsoft/managed-apps --skill list-apps

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/managed-apps

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install microsoft-managed-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 683 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00036	$0.00683
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00273
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00137
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 04429bf427c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

list-apps 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.

plugins/microsoft-managed-apps/skills/list-apps/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 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.

List Apps

Lists apps the active CLI account can see in the active environment, or shows full metadata for a single app.

Workflow

Memory Bank → 2. Verify Env → 3. Mode (list / show) → 4. Output

Step 1: Check Memory Bank

If a project memory bank exists, read it for the app's environment, if recorded, to know which environment the app was created in. Otherwise prompt the user for the environment they want to query (or accept "current default"). Note: ms app list reports apps for the signed-in account's resolved environment and has no environment-targeting flag, so the memory bank here is for context/verification — it does not scope the listing.

Step 2: Verify Env

BIN=ms
$BIN auth status                                       # confirm the right account

The listing scopes to the active environment (the auto-routed Developer environment unless a specific one was targeted at create time).

Step 3: Mode

Ask (or infer from the user's prompt):

list — enumerate all apps the account can see.
show — full metadata for one app (display name, GUID, environment, version, build info, share count, creation/modification dates).

Step 4: Output

List:

$BIN app list --json

Pretty-print the JSON. Default columns when summarizing for the user: displayName | appId | environmentId | version | lastModified.

If the list is long (>20 entries), ask the user whether they want to filter (by display-name substring) before printing. The CLI itself returns everything; the filtering happens in this skill.

Show:

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

Pretty-print the full envelope. Highlight: appId, displayName, environmentId, version, lastDeployedCommit, shareCount, and any status fields surfaced by the service.

Useful as a Subroutine

Other skills (/delete-app, /share, /deploy) can invoke this skill to resolve an app GUID from a display-name substring. When invoked as a subroutine, take the search term as $ARG1 and return only the matching appId / displayName pairs — skip the interactive prompts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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.

5d ago Changed · -2 lines 04429bf427c0
1mo ago Changed c8d3bfb3ca78
2mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 0a9852eb9e5b

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list-apps is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/managed-apps (36 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 683 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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