ppds-core SKILL.md skillA
ppds-core from joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills/ppds-core@git:20261031.4d56055Pins git:20261031.4d56055 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills
- Path
skills/ppds-core/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261031.4d56055, committed Oct 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 16, 2026
- Size
- 7,650 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Install, authenticate, and safely operate the Power Platform Developer Suite (PPDS) CLI and MCP server against Microsoft Dataverse — auth profiles, environment selection, the environment-safety model, and error interpretation. Use when the user wants to connect to Dataverse with PPDS, set up `ppds` or `ppds-mcp-server`, manage auth profiles or environments, decide between the PPDS CLI and MCP surfaces, or interpret a PPDS error or exit code. Load this skill first before any other ppds-* skill.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# PPDS Core — connect, select, stay safe PPDS (Power Platform Developer Suite) is a single .NET global tool giving you a typed CLI, an MCP server, a TUI, and NuGet libraries over Microsoft Dataverse. One install, no Python, no PAC CLI dependency. Docs: https://joshsmithxrm.github.io/ppds-docs/ ```bash dotnet tool install -g PPDS.Cli # CLI: `ppds` (update: dotnet tool update -g PPDS.Cli) dotnet tool install -g PPDS.Mcp # MCP server: `ppds-mcp-server` ``` Verify: `ppds --version`. These skills capture published CLI **1.4.2** and MCP **1.2.2** from independently verified public NuGet packages. If the installed version differs, prefer live `--help`. See [public capture provenance](references/candidate-provenance.json) for package URLs, hashes, the release commit, and the offline capture procedure. ## Surface routing (applies to every ppds-* skill) **The CLI is the primary surface for terminal agents.** Use the MCP server instead when either holds: 1. The host has no shell (an MCP-only client), or 2. You want protocol-level session safety the shell cannot give you — `--read-only` (all DML rejected for the session) and `--allowed-env` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills/ppds-core@sha256:1c00e9ba1f87efd8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.4d56055, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 34 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261031.4d56055 latest | 2026-10-31 | 4d56055 | 7,650 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.026fdad | 2026-06-17 | 026fdad | 7,463 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.8f3b7d6 | 2026-06-17 | 8f3b7d6 | 7,526 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.cf70a32 | 2026-06-17 | cf70a32 | 6,949 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.a1b184d | 2026-06-16 | a1b184d | 6,949 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7650 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5rpk7u3htrciaeqs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=joshsmithxrm/ppds-skills/ppds-core GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1c00e9ba1f87efd8d1bdd8e2d38a199e354e4a2d062e118100be8645bc6294a4
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