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PPTB Skills Catalog
Specification catalog, not shipped software. This section documents proposed Claude Code skill specifications for the PPTB ecosystem — designs for AI-assistant skills that automate common tool-development and toolbox-development tasks. None of these are implemented yet; each page is a specification a future implementation would follow, describing what the skill should do, when it should trigger, and what it should produce.
Power Platform Toolbox (PPTB) has two distinct audiences, documented separately under Tool Development and ToolBox Development:
- Tool developers build individual tools — sandboxed web apps that run inside the ToolBox host and talk to Dataverse and Power Platform through injected APIs.
- ToolBox contributors build the host application itself — the Electron shell, its main/renderer processes, and the API layer that bridges them.
Each audience repeats the same kinds of setup, wiring, and validation work across projects: scaffolding a manifest, adding an API call, configuring CSP, setting up the Electron build, wiring an IPC channel. This catalog specifies a Claude Code skill for each recurring task, grouped by audience.
Skill groups
| Group | Audience | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tool Skills | Tool developers | Skills that scaffold, wire, and validate an individual PPTB tool — manifest creation, ToolBox/Dataverse/PowerPlatform API integration, CSP configuration, error handling, inter-tool invocation, agent integration, validation, and publishing. |
| ToolBox Skills | ToolBox contributors | Skills that support contributing to the ToolBox host application itself — environment setup, Electron/IPC wiring, and the build/release workflow. |
How these skills fit together
Tool Skills and ToolBox Skills are independent groups aimed at different codebases and different contributors, but they share a common shape: each skill spec names concrete trigger phrases, the inputs it needs from the developer or the repo, the exact files and API calls it produces, and a checklist adapted from the corresponding PPTB reference page. A tool developer would typically reach for create-pptb-tool first, then layer in API and CSP skills as the tool's requirements grow, finishing with validation and publishing. A ToolBox contributor works from a separate set of skills scoped to the host application's own workflow. See each group's index page for the full skill list and links to individual specs.