Plugin check: Run
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js"— if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.
import-solution
Imports a solution zip into a target Dataverse environment via ImportSolutionAsync. Supports optional staged import via StageSolution to check for missing dependencies before committing.
Prerequisites
- PAC CLI installed and authenticated to the target environment
- Azure CLI installed and logged in
- Solution zip file exists on disk (produced by
export-solution)
Phases
Phase 0 — ALM plan gate
plan-almis the front door. When the user expresses an ALM intent (promote / ship / deploy / set up CI-CD / move to staging / push to prod), the orchestrator (/power-pages:plan-alm) should run first. This Phase 0 enforces that and is meant to fail closed when there's no plan, not to be a one-time check the user can dismiss forever.
Skip rule. If this skill was invoked as part of an active plan-alm orchestration, skip Phase 0 entirely and proceed to Phase 1. The gate helper exposes this via its inExecution block — pass through silently to Phase 1 when:
inExecution.status === "active"
The helper computes this from docs/.alm-plan-data.json — PLAN_STATUS === "In Execution" AND LAST_INVOCATION_AT within the last 60 minutes. check-alm-plan.js refreshes LAST_INVOCATION_AT automatically on every invocation that finds the plan in execution, so each in-chain skill keeps the chain alive for the next one — even multi-hour deploys (deploy-pipeline alone can take 60 min per stage) survive the window without the chain incorrectly de-classifying. Stalled chains (no heartbeat for > 60 min) reclassify as stale-heartbeat and Phase 0 gates fire normally so an abandoned plan doesn't silently bypass user confirmation.
When inExecution.status is anything other than "active" ("not-running", "stale-heartbeat", "no-plan"), run the Phase 0 gate flow below. Branch on the remaining helper fields:
Step 1 — Run the gate helper.
node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/lib/check-alm-plan.js" --projectRoot "."
The helper returns JSON with { exists, deferred, stale, staleness: { reason, detail }, generatedAt, planStatus, ... }. Pass --envUrl, --token, --solutionId once Phase 1 has acquired them if you also want a freshness check; otherwise the helper does an existence-only check, which is sufficient for the gate decision below.
Step 2 — Branch on the result.
| Result | Behavior |
|---|---|
deferred: true | The user has explicitly deferred ALM for this project (.alm-deferred marker present). Pass through silently to Phase 1 — do not nag. |
exists: false | The user hasn't run plan-alm yet. See Step 3. |
exists: true, stale: false | Plan is current. Pass through silently to Phase 1. |
exists: true, stale: true (reason: solution-modified) | The solution changed after the plan was generated. See Step 4. |
Step 3 — No plan. Tell the user:
<!-- gate: import-solution:0.no-plan | category=intent | cancel-leaves=nothing -->"No ALM plan exists for this project.
/power-pages:plan-almbuilds one — it detects the project state, asks about your promotion strategy (PP Pipelines vs Manual export/import), and orchestrates the right skills (including this one) in the right order. Want me to run plan-alm now?"
🚦 Gate (intent · import-solution:0.no-plan): Fail-closed entry gate when
check-alm-plan.jsreturnsexists:false. Helper-script-backed.
AskUserQuestion:
| Question | Header | Options |
|---|---|---|
Run /power-pages:plan-alm first? | ALM plan gate | Yes — run /power-pages:plan-alm now (Recommended), Continue without a plan (advanced — I know what I'm doing), Cancel |
- Yes (Recommended) → invoke
/power-pages:plan-alm. plan-alm's Phase 7 dispatches back into this skill at the appropriate stage. - Continue without a plan → set
BYPASSED_PLAN_GATE = trueand proceed to Phase 1. - Cancel → exit cleanly.
Step 4 — Stale plan. Tell the user:
<!-- gate: import-solution:0.stale-plan | category=intent | cancel-leaves=nothing -->"ALM plan exists from
{generatedAt}but the source solution has been modified since (at{solution.modifiedon}). Components may have changed. Re-runningplan-almwill refresh the analysis and the rendered HTML."
🚦 Gate (intent · import-solution:0.stale-plan): Fail-closed entry gate when
check-alm-plan.jsreturnsstale:true. Helper-script-backed.
AskUserQuestion:
| Question | Header | Options |
|---|---|---|
| Refresh the plan first? | ALM plan freshness | Refresh — re-run /power-pages:plan-alm (Recommended), Continue with the existing plan, Cancel |
- Refresh (Recommended) → invoke
/power-pages:plan-alm. After completion, re-run the Phase 0 helper once to confirm freshness; if still stale, surface the detail and proceed to Phase 1 anyway (don't infinite-loop). - Continue → set
STALE_PLAN_ACK = trueand proceed to Phase 1. - Cancel → exit cleanly.
Why this gate exists. Direct invocation of import-solution deploys a zip into a target environment without the orchestrator's deployment-strategy selection or post-import validation steps. Users running this skill standalone often skip the staged-import dependency check, miss env var override values for the target environment, and have no plan-tracked record of which environment received which artifact version. The gate ensures plan-alm either ran (so the strategy was selected, per-stage values were captured in deployment-settings.json, and the deployment is reproducible) or the user explicitly chose to bypass it.
Phase 1 — Verify Prerequisites
Create all tasks upfront at the start of this phase.
Tasks to create:
- "Verify prerequisites"
- "Locate solution file"
- "Configure import"
- "Stage solution (dependency check)"
- "Import solution"
- "Verify import"
- "Detect cloud flows"
- "Present summary"
Note: If the import fails with an
AttachmentBlockederror, a Phase 5b remediation flow runs inline — no additional task is needed (it continues within the "Import solution" task). The "Detect cloud flows" task is skipped automatically if no Workflows/*.json files are present in the solution zip.
Steps:
- Run
pac env who— extractenvironmentUrl(verify this is the target environment) - Run
az account get-access-token --resource "{environmentUrl}" --query accessToken -o tsv— capture token - Verify API access:
GET {environmentUrl}/api/data/v9.2/WhoAmI - Present target environment URL and ask user to confirm this is correct before proceeding.
Important: Confirm the target environment with the user — importing to the wrong environment can be disruptive.
If any check fails, stop (reference ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/dataverse-prerequisites.md).
Phase 1.5 — Ground in current ALM documentation
Reference:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/alm-docs-grounding.md
Cap this step at ~30 seconds. If MCP search / fetch errors out, log a one-line note and continue — this skill must remain runnable offline.
- Run
microsoft_docs_searchwith the query:Power Pages solution import staging missing dependencies ImportSolutionAsync ALM. - Fetch
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/solution-concepts-alm(and at most one sister page on staged imports or dependency handling) in parallel viamicrosoft_docs_fetch. - Extract a one-paragraph summary of what Microsoft Learn currently says about staging vs direct import, dependency resolution, and component-level error handling. Compare against
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/solution-api-patterns.mdand flag any divergence inImportSolutionAsync/StageSolutionsignatures. - Use the summary to inform Phase 2+ decisions. Do not silently change skill behavior — surface any divergence to the user as a soft warning before Phase 4 (the actual