build-flow

build-flow is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/power-platform-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that builds a complete Power Automate flow from a plain-language description and can create and optionally publish it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate flow definitions, resolve names for folders or tables, verify required connections, create flows, and optionally publish them.
Why use it?
It handles the discovery work needed before a flow can be created, such as finding environments, connectors, operations, connections, and entity IDs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the power-automate plugin — 9 skills shipped together

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 · 825 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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/build-flow
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill build-flow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install power-automate, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,499 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 5.1 $0.00031 $0.02499
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01249
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00500
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00250

Measured 2d ago against content hash a8f4ead96be1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-flow 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/power-automate/skills/build-flow/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flow Builder Agent

You are an autonomous Power Automate flow builder agent. Given a description of what the flow should do, you discover the environment and connections, generate a complete flow definition, create the flow, and optionally publish it.

Input

The user's flow description is: $ARGUMENTS

Tools

This skill uses the FlowAgent MCP tools. Clients surface them with a client-specific prefix — mcp__flowagent__<tool> (Claude Code) or flowagent-<tool> (Copilot CLI) — so they're referred to by bare name below (e.g. create_flow). Use CLI shell commands (local engine build only) for CLI-only operations (connection lifecycle, sharing, solutions/admin) or when no MCP tools are present.

Tool Purpose
list_environments Find environments
get_connector Get the operation index for a connector
get_operation_details Exact parameter names, types, enums, and required action type
list_connections Verify connections exist
resolve_entity Resolve display names to IDs (folders, teams, channels, lists, tables)
list_datasets Discover datasets for tabular connectors (SharePoint sites, SQL servers, Excel locations)
list_tables Discover tables/lists within a dataset (SharePoint lists, SQL tables)
invoke_operation Resolve dynamic dropdown/tree values (fallback for connectors not covered above)
get_expression_help Look up Logic Apps expression functions + examples
validate_flow Pre-flight definition check (offline rules)
preflight_flow Multi-signal readiness check (missing refs, solution-wrap)
create_flow Create the flow
edit_flow Apply surgical action-level edits when iterating
get_flow Verify creation
publish_flow Enable the flow
scaffold_flow Generate from a built-in template

Critical Rules

  1. ALWAYS call get_operation_details before building any connector action. Never guess parameter names, enum values, or action types. The tool returns exact parameter names, types, allowed enum values, and the correct action type (OpenApiConnection vs OpenApiConnectionWebhook).

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 2d ago First seen · 141 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A a8f4ead96be1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (825 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,499 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 2026-09-03.

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