Configure Canvas Authoring MCP

Configure Canvas Authoring MCP is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in power-platform-skills.

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Install Configure Canvas Authoring MCP

Copy Configure Canvas Authoring MCP 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/configure-canvas-mcp ~/.claude/skills/configure-canvas-mcp

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/configure-canvas-mcp/SKILL.md in microsoft/power-platform-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/configure-canvas-mcp
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Configure Canvas Authoring MCP does

Configure Canvas Authoring MCP connects the server to a specific Power Apps canvas app coauthoring session. Use it when the MCP server is not connected, so Canvas App skills can create or edit the app.

Configure Canvas Authoring MCP is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Configure Canvas Authoring MCP comes from a repository tagged claude-code-plugin, claude-code-skills, code-apps, github-copilot-plugin and power-apps.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Configure the Canvas Authoring MCP Server

This skill configures the Canvas Authoring MCP server for the user's current Power Apps coauthoring session. The MCP server is auto-registered by the plugin — this skill connects it to a specific app session.

Instructions

1. Ask for the studio URL

Ask the user:

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

Commands Configure Canvas Authoring MCP provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/canvas-app

Frequently asked about Configure Canvas Authoring MCP

What else does microsoft publish alongside Configure Canvas Authoring MCP?
Configure Canvas Authoring MCP 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 Configure Canvas Authoring MCP 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 Configure Canvas Authoring MCP compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Configure Canvas Authoring MCP ranks #1680 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Configure Canvas Authoring MCP against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.