configure-canvas-mcp

configure-canvas-mcp is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/power-platform-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,686 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup helper for connecting the Canvas Authoring MCP server to an open Power Apps canvas-app editing session. The server lets the coding agent work with that live design session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Canvas Apps MCP is unavailable or needs setup, by providing the studio URL and keeping the coauthoring browser tab open during the session.
Why use it?
It removes the configuration steps needed before the agent can compile, synchronize, or save changes in the canvas app.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the canvas-apps plugin — 4 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when Canvas Apps MCP is unavailable or needs setup, by providing the studio URL and keeping the coauthoring browser tab open during the session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/configure-canvas-mcp
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 · 859 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 configure-canvas-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install canvas-apps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,686 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 76
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00064 $0.01686
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00843
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00169

Measured 11d ago against content hash 08628c983d06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configure-canvas-mcp 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 11d 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/canvas-apps/skills/configure-canvas-mcp/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure the Canvas Authoring MCP Server

This skill configures the Canvas Authoring MCP server for the user's current Power Apps coauthoring session. The MCP server is auto-registered by the plugin — this skill connects it to a specific app session.

Instructions

1. Ask for the studio URL

Ask the user:

What is the URL of your canvas app studio session?

Copy the URL from the browser address bar while your app is open in Power Apps Designer (it should look like https://make.powerapps.com/e/Default-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/canvas/?action=edit&app-id=...).

Make sure coauthoring is enabled in the app (Settings → Updates → Coauthoring).

Keep this browser tab open for the entire session. The MCP server communicates with Power Apps through the coauthoring session tied to that tab. Closing the tab ends the coauthoring session, which prevents compile_canvas and sync_canvas from working and means you can't see or save generated changes.

2. Extract parameters from the URL

Parse the following from the studio URL:

  • ENV_ID: the path segment between /e/ and the next / (e.g. Default-91bee3d9-0c15-4f17-8624-c92bb8b36ead).
  • APP_ID: URL-decode the app-id query parameter value, then take the last segment after the final / (e.g. 6fc3e3d1-292b-4281-8826-577f78512e56)
  • MAKER_HOSTNAME: the hostname of the URL (e.g. make.powerapps.com)
  • ENVIRONMENT_CATEGORY: determined from MAKER_HOSTNAME (see table below)

Determine ENVIRONMENT_CATEGORY from MAKER_HOSTNAME:

MAKER_HOSTNAME ENVIRONMENT_CATEGORY
make.powerapps.com prod
make.preview.powerapps.com prod
make.preprod.powerapps.com preprod
make.gov.powerapps.us gov
make.high.powerapps.us high
make.apps.appsplatform.us dod
make.powerapps.cn china
Any other hostname test

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 11d ago First seen · 108 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 08628c983d06

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configure-canvas-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (859 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,686 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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