Add Data Source

by microsoft

Add Data Source is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in power-platform-skills.

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Install Add Data Source

Copy Add Data Source into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills/tree/main/plugins/canvas-apps/skills/add-data-source ~/.claude/skills/add-data-source

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/canvas-apps/skills/add-data-source/SKILL.md in microsoft/power-platform-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/add-data-source
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Add Data Source does

Add Data Source guides users to add a data source, connection, or API connector in Power Apps Studio, then verifies it is available before continuing. Use it when connecting SharePoint, Dataverse, SQL, Excel, OneDrive, Teams, or other app data.

Add Data Source is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Add Data Source comes from a repository tagged claude-code-plugin, claude-code-skills, code-apps, github-copilot-plugin and power-apps.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Data sources, connections, and API connectors cannot be added by the coding agent — they must be added through the Power Apps Studio interface. This skill informs the user, guides them to add the connection in their Studio session, verifies it is available via the MCP server, and then continues with any pending work.

Phase 0 — Identify the Connection Type

From the user's request, determine what they want to add and how to verify it:

Request type	Verify with
Data source (SharePoint list, Dataverse table, SQL table, Excel file, OneDrive, etc.)	`list_data_sources`
API / connector (Office 365 Users, Teams, custom connector, etc.)	`list_apis`
Unclear	Both `list_data_sources` and `list_apis`

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Add Data Source

What else does microsoft publish alongside Add Data Source?
Add Data Source is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/power-platform-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Connector, Add Connector and Add Data Source. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Add Data Source does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/power-platform-skills page.
How does Add Data Source compare to other Automation skills?
Add Data Source ranks #1028 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Add Data Source against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.