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.
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.
npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill ensure-pipelines-hostgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/ensure-pipelines-host"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/ensure-pipelines-host.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 15 findings, up to high
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 →
- high System Prompt Leakage · line 19 Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
- high Prompt Injection · line 26 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 211 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 433 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 589 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 640 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Rogue Agent · line 1005 Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 21 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 263 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 290 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 658 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Data Exfiltration · line 677 Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 430 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.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 645 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.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 1054 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00222 | $0.22965 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00111 | $0.11482 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00044 | $0.04593 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.02296 |
Grade C, and why
ensure-pipelines-host scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection
Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.
<!-- alm-lint-ignore: SKILL-must-read-manifest — this skill manages the Pipelines host environment (deploymentenvironments / deploymentpipelines tables on the host), not the source-env solution. The site's .solution-mani How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,070 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Plugin check: Run
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js"— if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.
ensure-pipelines-host
Scope: When no host is bound to the source env, this skill detects any existing host (Custom or PE) for reuse, or — in
NoHoststate — offers three provisioning paths: a new Platform Host (recommended; idempotent, ~3–5 min); a new Custom Host (admin-only, ~5–10 min); or PPAC manual provisioning (fallback). Implementation details — endpoint names, template names, BAP audience — live in Phase 4.0 / 4.A / 4.C below; user-facing prose stays focused on outcomes.
Power Platform Pipelines need a host environment — a Dataverse environment with the Power Platform Pipelines managed solution installed, where pipelines, stages, run history, and artifacts live. The existing setup-pipeline and deploy-pipeline skills assume a host is already configured. This skill closes that gap.
What we know (sources of truth)
This plan is grounded in three primary sources, in priority order:
useGetOrCreatePlatformEnvironment.v4.ts(Microsoft-internal client source —power-platform-ux/packages/powerapps-appdeployment-ux/src/hooks/v4/). Defines the exact HTTP contract for Platform Environment provisioning: endpoint, body, headers, polling.ProjectHostProvider.tsx(same repo,src/components/ProjectHostProvider/). Defines the exact resolution order the Power Apps UI uses to determine which environment is the project host for a source environment. We mirror that order so this skill agrees with the UI.- eng.ms
createcustompipelineshost(Microsoft-internal). Documents the Custom Host fast-path: aD365_ProjectHostorg template that ships the Pipelines app pre-installed, callable through the standard environment-creation API.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 1,070 lines · 222 tokens per session scan C 454805c6b8dd
ensure-pipelines-host is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (862 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 222 tokens to every session and 22,965 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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