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Adds the /provision command that automates end-to-end Power Platform
environment provisioning with ESS base + Workday ISV extension.

What it does

  • Creates or binds a PP environment (PAC CLI with capacity pre-checks)
  • Installs ESS base + Workday ISV via pac application install
  • Creates Workday SOAP + Dataverse connections (Connectivity API)
  • Binds connection references to connections (Dataverse PATCH)
  • Enables flows and outputs manual CPS wiring instructions
  • Configures User Context Setup topic redirect
  • Validates readiness via FlightCheck

Description

Introduces 7 new Python scripts and 6 skill docs that together automate provisioning a Power Platform environment with the ESS agent + Workday ISV. The skill follows the same AI-as-orchestrator pattern used by /connect and /onboarding , markdown step files guide the agent, Python scripts handle the API calls. Flow runtime binding requires a manual Copilot Studio step (PVA API needs legacy permissions not available to custom Entra apps).
Design is ISV-extensible for ServiceNow/SAP in future PRs.

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Refs #

Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
    functionality to not work as expected)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactor / cleanup

Testing

End-to-end tested against Preprod ring.
Final run verified:
env creation, ESS + Workday ISV install, connection creation (Workday SOAP + Dataverse), connection ref binding, flow enablement, topic redirect patch and FlightCheck validation, all passing. Manual CPS wiring confirmed functional post-script.

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  • My code follows the existing style
  • I have added/updated tests where applicable
  • I have updated documentation as needed

 Adds the `/provision` command that automates end-to-end Power Platform
 environment provisioning with ESS base + Workday ISV extension.

 ## What it does
 - Creates or binds a PP environment (PAC CLI with capacity pre-checks)
 - Installs ESS base + Workday ISV via `pac application install`
 - Creates Workday SOAP + Dataverse connections (Connectivity API)
 - Binds connection references to connections (Dataverse PATCH)
 - Enables flows and outputs manual CPS wiring instructions
 - Configures User Context Setup topic redirect
 - Validates readiness via FlightCheck
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@is-goutham is-goutham marked this pull request as draft May 14, 2026 17:14

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Solid work overall. Shell injection defenses (regex allowlists), OData injection guards, HTTPS validation on token-bearing requests, and token cache permission handling are all correctly implemented. Found two issues worth addressing.

if any(p.lower() in name.lower() for p in patterns):
matched.append(f)
if prefix:
if any(name.startswith(p) for p in patterns):

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Case-sensitive prefix matching for Workday flows

The prefix=True path uses name.startswith(p) which is case-sensitive, but the prefix=False path uses case-insensitive matching (p.lower() in name.lower()). The patterns are ('ESS HR Workday', 'ESS IT Workday', 'WorkdayRESTExecution').

If the Power Platform API ever returns a display name with different casing (e.g., 'ESS HR WORKDAY...'), the prefix match silently fails and those flows are not detected, causing flightcheck to incorrectly report 'No Workday flows found' (WD-001 -> NOT_CONFIGURED).

Suggestion: Normalize both sides: if any(name.lower().startswith(p.lower()) for p in patterns):

resp = _SESSION.get(url, headers=self.headers, params=params, timeout=60)
if resp.status_code in (401, 403):
return items
return {"_error": "insufficient_permissions", "_status": resp.status_code}

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_get_all silently discards accumulated data on mid-pagination auth failure

The previous implementation returned the partially-accumulated items list on 401/403 during pagination. The new implementation returns {'_error': ...} instead, discarding any successfully-fetched pages.

If a token expires mid-pagination (e.g., page 1 of get_flows succeeds with 250 flows, page 2 returns 401), all data from page 1 is silently dropped. For environments with hundreds of flows, this could cause confusing false failures.

Suggestion: Return the error dict only when items is empty (first-page failure = real permission problem). When items is non-empty, either return the partial list with a warning, or include the partial data in the error dict: {'_error': 'insufficient_permissions', '_partial': items}.

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Large feature PR (3448 additions, 24 files) adding a /provision skill. High-level observations:

  1. Scope: This adds end-to-end environment provisioning - creating Power Platform environments, connections, flow bindings, and user-context topic wiring. That's a significant new capability. The 4-step structure (step1-step4 + tasks.md) follows the established pattern from /connect.

  2. New scripts: 6 new Python scripts (create_env.py, create_connection.py, bind_connection_refs.py, wire_flow_bindings.py, update_user_context_topic.py, whoami.py, pp_helpers.py). These should have corresponding unit tests - I don't see test files in this PR.

  3. pp_helpers.py (286 lines): This appears to be a shared utility module for Power Platform API operations. Good separation of concerns. Check for overlap with existing pp_admin_client.py in flightcheck - ensure no duplicate functions per the repo's code quality rules.

  4. Auth changes (auth.py): The diff shows 13 additions / 12 deletions - verify the refactoring doesn't break existing scripts that import from auth.py.

  5. FlightCheck integration: Changes to cli.py (75+/26-), environment.py, external_systems.py, workday.py, pp_admin_client.py, and runner.py suggest the provision skill also wires into FlightCheck. Ensure these changes don't regress existing check behavior.

  6. Missing tests: A PR of this size adding new API-calling scripts should include unit tests with mocked responses. Consider adding tests before merge.

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