dv-metadata SKILL.md skillA
dv-metadata from microsoft/dataverse-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-metadata@git:20261012.1966192Pins git:20261012.1966192 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/dataverse-skills
- Path
.github/plugins/dataverse/skills/dv-metadata/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261012.1966192, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 21,634 bytes
- Repository stars
- 254
- License
- MIT
Dataverse schema authoring and inspection — tables, columns, relationships, forms, and views. Use when the user wants to define, evolve, or inspect the data model — add a column, create a table, set up a lookup, customize a form, build a view, or list existing columns and relationships.
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
# Skill: Metadata — Making Changes
**Before the first metadata change in a session:**
1. **Confirm the target environment** with the user — see the Multi-Environment Rule in dv-overview.
2. **Confirm the solution** — ask "What solution should these components go into?" If `SOLUTION_NAME` is in `.env`, confirm it. If no solution exists yet, **you MUST ask the user** for the solution name and publisher prefix before creating anything. The publisher prefix is **permanent** — it cannot be changed after components are created with it.
**STOP and ask the user:**
> "What solution name and publisher prefix should I use? The prefix (e.g., `contoso`, `lit`, `soc`) is permanent on every table and column."
Then query existing publishers and show them — the user may want to reuse one:
```python
# Publisher discovery + solution creation — use SDK (never raw Web API).
# See dv-solution for the full publisher discovery flow.
publishers = client.records.list("publisher",
filter="customizationprefix ne 'none' and uniquename ne 'MicrosoftCorporation'",
select=["publisherid", "uniquename", "friendlyname", "customizationprefix"], top=10)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-metadata@sha256:3abebbd2068b6794The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.1966192, 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 Jul 22, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261012.1966192 latest | 2026-10-12 | 1966192 | 21,634 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.669e715 | 2026-09-18 | 669e715 | 21,708 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.a2bddb8 | 2026-08-21 | a2bddb8 | 21,657 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.e61db16 | 2026-07-29 | e61db16 | 21,724 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.a521f78 | 2026-07-22 | a521f78 | 21,689 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 (21634 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
microsoft/dataverse-skills · 254 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gfm4ulmc32z6m5t4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/dataverse-skills/dv-metadata GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3abebbd2068b67941da00db2c931dd772b3cf7218bf10bfb4a1f4c590416b41a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.