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create-flow

Guided flow creation wizard. Use when the user wants to create a new flow interactively.

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Set up

Skills are installed by placing their folder where your agent loads skills.

Download ZIP from GitHub Open the skill folder

The download comes from github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills itself, not from our server, so what you get is exactly what its author published. The ZIP holds the whole collection; take the folder plugins/power-automate/skills/create-flow out of it for create-flow.

Part of the collection microsoft/power-platform-skills.

npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill create-flow

Or by hand: Copy the folder plugins/power-automate/skills/create-flow from github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills into ~/.claude/skills/create-flow/ (Claude Code) or your agent's skills folder. Check the collection's own README for other agents.

README

synced Oct 14, 2026

Guided Flow Creation Wizard

Walk the user through creating a Power Automate flow step by step.

Tools

This skill uses the FlowAgent MCP tools. Clients surface them with a client-specific prefix — mcp__flowagent__<tool> (Claude Code) or flowagent-<tool> (Copilot CLI) — so they're referred to by bare name below (e.g. create_flow). Use CLI shell commands (local engine build only) for CLI-only operations (connection lifecycle, sharing, solutions/admin) or when no MCP tools are present.

Steps

  1. Gather requirements: Ask what the flow should do. Identify triggers, actions, connectors.

  2. Select environment: Call list_environments (use query to filter). Let user pick or auto-select.

  3. Check for templates: Call list_templates. If a template matches (approval, digest, webhook, etc.), offer to use scaffold_flow as a starting point.

  4. Discover connectors: For each connector, call get_connector with query to find the operation, then get_operation_details for exact parameters. Never guess parameter names or types.

  5. Verify connections: Call list_connections filtered by each connector. Confirm Connected status.

  6. Resolve dynamic values: For params with dynamicValues/dynamicTree annotations, call invoke_operation to get actual values (Teams channels, SharePoint sites, etc.).

  7. Review with user: Present the flow design. Use AskUserQuestion to confirm trigger, actions, and connections before creating.

  8. Generate definition: Build following all rules:

    • Always declare $authentication (SecureObject) and $connections (Object) parameters
    • Use correct action type: OpenApiConnection or OpenApiConnectionWebhook (from get_operation_details)
    • Do NOT include authentication in action inputs
    • Use Embedded source in connection references
    • HTTP Request triggers require Premium; prefer Button kind

  9. Validate: Call validate_flow (and optionally preflight_flow) to pre-check. For expressions, look up syntax with get_expression_help.

  10. Create: Call create_flow in Stopped state. Report ID and name.

  11. Optionally publish: Ask if user wants to enable. If yes, call publish_flow. For later one-off tweaks, use edit_flow (surgical) rather than resending the whole definition.

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