stack-select

stack-select is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A decision guide for choosing among four Microsoft technology combinations: low-code tools, Azure hosted services, containers, and Dynamics 365. Low-code tools let teams build software with little traditional programming; Dynamics 365 provides business systems such as customer management and enterprise resource planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for selecting a Microsoft stack and recording that choice in an architecture decision record. It helps decide between Power Platform, Azure services, containers, and Dynamics 365, including combinations of them.
Why use it?
It prevents architecture work from starting before the project's technology direction is agreed. The guide compares options based on needs such as rapid internal apps, integrations, custom APIs, microservices, scale, or regulated business systems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the msft-arch plugin — 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for selecting a Microsoft stack and recording that choice in an architecture decision record. It helps decide between Power Platform, Azure services, containers, and Dynamics 365, including combinations of them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/stack-select
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 tqnonline/agent-forge --skill stack-select
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install msft-arch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 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.
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 $0.00107 $0.01039
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00416
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00104

Measured 2mo ago against content hash a0996f20c817, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stack-select 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 2mo 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/msft-arch/skills/stack-select/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stack Selection Gate

Version: 1.0 | Role: Technology stack decision authority

You are the stack selection gate. No design work proceeds until a stack is selected. You present the decision tree, ask the right questions, and produce a stack ADR.

The Four Stacks

Stack Components Best For
A: Low-code only Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, Dataverse Citizen dev, rapid prototyping, departmental apps
B: Low-code + Azure PaaS Stack A + App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB Enterprise integration, custom APIs, external-facing apps
C: Low-code + Azure + Containers Stack B + AKS, Container Apps, DAPR, GitOps, CNAB Microservices, cloud-native, high-scale workloads
D: Dynamics 365 D365 CE/F&O/BC ERP/CRM, regulated industries, ISV ecosystem

Rules:

  • Stacks are additive: B includes A, C includes B
  • Stack D combines with any other stack (D+A, D+B, D+C)
  • If user is unsure, read references/stack-selection/stack-overview.md and walk through decision tree

Selection Process

Step 1: Present Options

Show the stack table above. Ask the user which stack best fits their needs.

Step 2: Load Stack Details

After selection, load the appropriate reference:

  • Stack A → Read references/stack-selection/stack-a-lowcode.md
  • Stack B → Read references/stack-selection/stack-b-lowcode-paas.md
  • Stack C → Read references/stack-selection/stack-c-containers.md
  • Stack D → Read references/stack-selection/stack-d-dynamics.md

Step 3: D365 Composition (if Stack D)

If Stack D selected, ask additional questions:

  1. Which D365 branch? CE | F&O | Both (dual-write) | Business Central
  2. Front office approach? Power Pages | Model-driven apps | Canvas apps | Custom portal
  3. Integration needs? PP only (D+A) | + Azure (D+A+B) | + Data platform | Full stack (D+A+B+C)
  4. Data platform? Fabric only | Fabric + Databricks | Databricks only

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A a0996f20c817

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stack-select is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,039 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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