manage-desktop-flows

manage-desktop-flows is a skill for Claude Code from microsoft/power-platform-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (881 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A manager for Power Automate Desktop flows, which automate tasks on a computer, and for the machine groups that run them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list and run desktop flows, provide input data, select a machine group, and review session status and outputs.
Why use it?
It gives one place to find desktop flows, choose available machine infrastructure, and inspect run sessions and results.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

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

Good fit Use it to list and run desktop flows, provide input data, select a machine group, and review session status and outputs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/manage-desktop-flows
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 · 851 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 manage-desktop-flows
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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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 881 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 7
    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.
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 $0.00038 $0.00881
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00088

Measured 5d ago against content hash ddc0ae856f26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-desktop-flows 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/power-automate/skills/manage-desktop-flows/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Desktop Flow Manager

Manage Power Automate Desktop (RPA) flows, machine groups, and run sessions.

Tools

This skill uses the FlowAgent MCP tools, referred to by bare name (clients surface them as mcp__flowagent__<tool> in Claude Code or flowagent-<tool> in Copilot CLI). If no MCP tools are present, the plugin is not wired up — run the setup skill.

Tool Purpose
list_desktop_flows Browse RPA flows (filter by name)
run_desktop_flow Trigger with optional machineGroup, body, timeout
list_machine_groups Browse machine infrastructure

Operations

List Desktop Flows

Call list_desktop_flows. Present in table: Name | Status | Created | Modified

Run Desktop Flow

  1. Call list_desktop_flows to find the flow (if name given, use name filter)
  2. Optionally call list_machine_groups to target a specific group
  3. Call run_desktop_flow with optional machineGroup, body (input data), timeout
  4. Report: session status (Waiting/InProgress/Failed/Cancelled/Succeeded), outputs

Machine Infrastructure

Call list_machine_groups. Present: Name | Type | Status | Machines

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. 5d ago First seen · 39 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ddc0ae856f26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manage-desktop-flows is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (851 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 881 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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