app-builder

app-builder is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/power-platform-skills. It costs 210 tokens per session (18,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preview workflow that turns a natural-language description into a model-driven Power Apps app. It can define the app's data tables, forms, views, charts, pages, and navigation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or updating Power Apps apps with Dataverse data, relationships, sample records, adaptive forms, and generative pages.
Why use it?
It removes much of the manual setup needed to create and revise a business app from a data model.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the model-apps plugin — 2 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for creating or updating Power Apps apps with Dataverse data, relationships, sample records, adaptive forms, and generative pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/app-builder
About the project

microsoft/power-platform-skills is a plugin marketplace containing reusable skills, agents, and commands for developing with Microsoft Power Platform. Developers use it to build and deploy Power Pages sites, model-driven Power Apps, and related solutions through Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. The catalogue entries are the marketplace's included skills, agents, plugins, and other agent components.

microsoft/power-platform-skills · 1,061 stars · on GitHub · aka.ms

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/power-platform-skills --skill app-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install model-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 210 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 18,543 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00210 $0.18543
Opus 5.5 $0.00084 $0.07417
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00042 $0.03709
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.01854

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1320c7d73499, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-builder 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/model-apps/skills/app-builder/SKILL.md · 919 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 919 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin check: Run node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js" — if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.

app-builder — intent → model-driven app

Turn a natural-language intent into a deployed model-driven app. You author a reviewable App Spec (JSON) with the user across confirmed turns, then a deterministic engine (cds-maker-sdk, vendored) builds it — tables/columns/relationships, sample data, views, Choice-column charts, adaptive forms with sub-grids, generative pages for overview/dashboard surfaces, and the app module + sitemap. The same spec drives create and edit: download a deployed app back into a spec, change it, and re-run the build (it's idempotent).

CRITICAL — run the interactive flow in THIS conversation (the main loop)

You MUST run the authoring questions and the build narration yourself, in the main conversation. Do NOT dispatch a subagent (Task) for the interactive steps.

A subagent is headless — AskUserQuestion and plan mode do not reach the user from inside one (its only output is its final message). The whole point of this skill is the multi-turn, propose-then-confirm experience, so every AskUserQuestion, EnterPlanMode, and live build status line must originate here, in the main loop.

CRITICAL — the user sees your chat message, NOT tool output

Shell/tool output — the result of running preview-app.js, a dry-run plan, or a lint — is COLLAPSED BY DEFAULT in the UI. The user does NOT see it unless they manually expand the tool panel. Running the command is therefore NOT the same as showing the user. Every artifact the user must read, review, or approve — the whole-app preview wireframes, the dry-run build plan, and blocking lint findings — MUST be reproduced verbatim in your chat reply, inside a fenced ``` code block. Never say "the preview looks right" and leave the content buried in a collapsed panel: paste it into your message. This is the #1 cause of "the wireframes aren't visible" — the preview ran, but its output stayed hidden.

Read the full file on GitHub · 919 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.

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Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (1,061 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 210 tokens to every session and 18,543 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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