plan-alm

plan-alm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/power-platform-skills. It costs 185 tokens per session (24,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool for ALM, or Application Lifecycle Management: the process of moving a site through environments such as development, testing, and production. It gathers the promotion strategy and creates an HTML deployment plan for approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan Power Pages solution promotion through Power Platform Pipelines or manual export and import.
Why use it?
It makes the intended deployment sequence and approval requirements clear before anyone runs the deployment steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the power-pages plugin — 29 skills, 5 agents 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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install power-pages, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 5 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for plan-alm

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/plan-alm.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/plan-alm)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/plan-alm"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/power-platform-skills/plan-alm.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 185 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 24,896 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00185 $0.24896
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.12448
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.04979
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.02490

Measured yesterday against content hash f2e479821541, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-alm scanned grade A 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/render-alm-plan.js, scripts/validate-plan-alm.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

> **Why no Node wrapper.** The earlier `node -e "spawn('powershell.exe', [...])"` chain hits the agent's sandbox classifier (Node spawning a process that spawns another process is the textbook pattern the classifier bloc
plugins/power-pages/skills/plan-alm/SKILL.md · 1,134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,134 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.

plan-alm

A 4-phase planner that gathers ALM strategy from the user, generates an HTML deployment plan, and gets approval. It does not execute anything — execution is delegated to the individual ALM skills, which the user runs afterward.

Overview

This skill detects the current project state (existing solution, pipeline), asks targeted questions about the desired promotion strategy (Power Platform Pipelines or Manual export/import), generates a visual docs/alm-plan.html, and gets user approval. The four phases are: Phase 1 — Detect, Phase 2 — Gather strategy, Phase 3 — Generate plan, Phase 4 — Approve & save.

plan-alm never deploys. The plan's steps[] array records the recommended execution sequence. After approval, the user invokes the individual skills — setup-solution, setup-pipeline (or export-solution), and deploy-pipeline (or import-solution) — in that order. Each of those skills detects the approved plan via its Phase 0 gate, proceeds without re-nagging, and refreshes the plan on completion. This separation is deliberate: it keeps plan-alm safe to run unattended (e.g. under autopilot) because no single answer can trigger an irreversible deployment.

Do NOT create tasks at the start — strategy is unknown until Phase 2 completes. Create both tasks in Phase 3 once the strategy is determined.


Phase 1 — Detect Project State

Do NOT create tasks yet. Use natural language progress reporting only during this phase.

Steps:

  1. Detect prior ALM deferral for this project. Before any discovery work, check whether the project root contains a .alm-deferred marker file. The marker is written by users who explicitly opted ALM-skill validators out of "missing artifacts" warnings (e.g. "this site is handled separately" or "ni-dev — no ALM"). If a user is now invoking plan-alm, we should surface that the marker is present and ask what to do, rather than silently proceeding (which would build a plan the user previously decided not to maintain) or silently removing the marker (which would re-enable nags on every other ALM skill).

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,134 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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. yesterday First seen · 1,134 lines · 185 tokens per session scan A f2e479821541

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-alm is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/power-platform-skills (825 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 185 tokens to every session and 24,896 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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