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--- before +++ after @@ -1,149 +1,149 @@ ---- -name: dv-security -description: Security-role assignment, user access, application users, business units, and admin self-elevation in Dataverse environments. Use when the user wants to give someone access, grant a role, become an admin, or add a service principal. ---- - -# Skill: Security — Role Assignment and Self-Elevation - -**This skill uses first-party CLIs — PAC CLI for role changes, Dataverse CLI to verify.** Do NOT write Python scripts for role operations. - -## Preview Before Running - -Role grants and self-elevate are destructive (they change security posture and are logged to Purview). Before running, preview the action in plain prose — target user, role, environment(s) — using placeholders (`<ENV_URL>`, `<USER_EMAIL>`) for anything unknown, and ask for confirmation and missing values in the same turn. Skip the raw `pac admin` block; the user shouldn't have to read CLI syntax to approve a security change. - -**Key principle:** the user should be able to evaluate what's about to happen from your first response. A bare *"which environment?"* fails that test; a one-line prose preview passes it. - -### Examples - -**Assign role (user given, env missing):** -- ❌ "Which environment should I target?" -- ✅ "I'll assign **System Administrator** to `user@contoso.com` on `<ENV_URL>`. Confirm to proceed and provide the target environment URL (or 'all' to list and batch)." - -**Admin access across all environments:** -- ❌ "Please provide your email address." -- ✅ "I'll list your environments, then assign **System Administrator** in parallel on each one for `<YOUR_UPN>`. If `assign-user` fails on any environment, I'll fall back to self-elevate (logged to Purview) for that one. Confirm to proceed and provide your UPN." - -## Skill boundaries - -| Need | Use instead | -|---|---| -| Create or modify tables, columns, relationships | **dv-metadata** | -| Manage org settings, audit, bulk delete, retention | **dv-admin** | -| Query or read records | **dv-query** | -| Write, update, or delete records | **dv-data** | -| Tenant-level governance (DLP, env lifecycle) | `pac admin --help` | - -## Prerequisites - -- PAC CLI installed and authenticated (`pac auth create`) -- System Administrator role in target environment (or Global/PP/D365 Admin for self-elevate) -- Active auth profile: `pac auth list` -- **Headless / restricted-egress hosts**: SDK handles role / user / business-unit ops; service principal for PAC-only ops; verify egress with `python scripts/auth.py --check`. See `dv-connect/references/headless-hosts.md`. - ---- - -## Assign a Security Role to a User - -```bash -pac admin assign-user --user <email-or-object-id> --role "System Administrator" --environment <url> -``` - -### Arguments - -| Argument | Alias | Required | Description | -|----------|-------|----------|-------------| -| `--user` | `-u` | Yes | User email (UPN) or Azure AD object ID | -| `--role` | `-r` | Yes | Security role name (e.g., `System Administrator`, `Basic User`) | -| `--environment` | `-env` | Yes | Target environment URL or ID | -| `--application-user` | `-au` | No | Treat user as an application user (service principal) | -| `--business-unit` | `-bu` | No | Business unit ID. Defaults to the caller's business unit | - ---- - -## Verify the assignment — exit code 0 is not proof - -`pac admin assign-user` **exits 0 even when it fails** (unresolved environment, wrong role name, unknown user). Never treat a clean exit as success. - -1. **Read the output, not just the exit code.** A failed run still exits 0 but prints an error (`environment ... not found`, `role ... does not exist`). Stop if the output contains an error. -2. **Confirm against the exact `--environment` you used** — do not re-resolve or shorten it; a different id silently "succeeds" on the wrong org. Query the user's roles with a Dataverse CLI read: - -```bash -# Resolve the user's systemuserid, then list their assigned roles. -# --context carries plugin/skill/agent attribution on the managed CLI call. -dataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \ - --path "/api/data/v9.2/systemusers?%24select=systemuserid&%24filter=internalemailaddress eq 'user@contoso.com'" \ - --environment <same-url-as-assign> \ - --context "app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>" -dataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \ - --path "/api/data/v9.2/systemusers(<systemuserid>)/systemuserroles_association?%24select=name" \ - --environment <same-url-as-assign> \ - --context "app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>" -``` - -If the first query returns no row, the sign-in identity may live on `domainname` (the AAD UPN) rather than `internalemailaddress` (Primary Email) — retry with `%24filter=domainname eq '<upn>'`, or `azureactivedirectoryobjectid eq '<objectid>'` when you assigned by object id. A missing row is not proof the grant failed. - -If the target role is absent, the assignment did not take — re-run, read the output, or fall back to self-elevate. - ---- - -## Batch Workflow: Assign Role Across Multiple Environments - -Run in parallel — never sequentially: - -``` -Step 1: pac admin list -> Get all environments -Step 2: Filter by type if needed (e.g., Developer, Sandbox) -> Identify targets -Step 3: Confirm with user — show list of target environments -Step 4: Run ALL assignments in a single bash call: -``` - -```bash -pac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role "System Administrator" --environment https://dev1.crm.dynamics.com & -pac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role "System Administrator" --environment https://dev2.crm.dynamics.com & -pac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role "System Administrator" --environment https://dev3.crm.dynamics.com & -wait -``` - -``` -Step 5: Verify each landed (exit 0 is not proof — see above), then report ("Assigned + verified on 3/3 environments") -``` - -**Important**: Always confirm which environments will be affected before assigning roles, and verify each assignment landed — a clean exit code does not prove success. - ---- - -## Tenant Admin Self-Elevation (Fallback) - -**Self-elevation is materially different from assigning a role to another user.** `pac admin assign-user <other>` grants privilege *to someone else*; `pac admin self-elevate` grants privilege *to the caller*. The risk profile and audit posture are different, so the confirmation protocol is stricter. - -If `pac admin assign-user` fails with "user has not been assigned any roles", use: - -```bash -pac admin self-elevate --environment https://myorg.crm.dynamics.com -``` - -- Requires Global Admin, Power Platform Admin, or Dynamics 365 Admin -- All elevations are logged to Microsoft Purview -- Uses the active auth profile if `--environment` is omitted - -### Self-elevation confirmation protocol (stricter than assign-user) - -Before running `pac admin self-elevate`, the agent MUST: - -1. **State the risk explicitly.** Include this wording (or equivalent) in the pre-run summary: - > "This grants YOU System Administrator on `<env>`. The action is logged to Microsoft Purview with your identity and timestamp." -2. **Capture a reason.** Ask for a one-line reason — ticket ID, incident number, or a free-form note such as `"dev sandbox access — no ticket"`. Echo the reason back in the pre-run summary so the user sees what will be on the record. -3. **Wait for an explicit confirmation AFTER the user has seen both (1) and (2).** Do NOT accept a bare "yes" given before the risk statement and reason are on screen. -4. **Do NOT silently fall back.** If `pac admin assign-user` fails, surface the failure first, then offer `self-elevate` with this protocol — never chain them automatically. - -**Flow**: Always try `pac admin assign-user` first. `admin self-elevate` is the documented fallback, gated by the protocol above. - -**CLI fallback**: If `pac admin self-elevate` errors out, self-elevate manually via **Power Platform Admin Center** → select the environment → **Access** → **System Administrator role**. All elevations are still logged to Purview. (In PAC CLI 2.6.4 the command fails with `bolt.authentication.http.AuthenticatedClientException` / `ApiVersionInvalid` because the CLI sends an empty `api-version=` to the backend.) - ---- - -## Safety Rules - -- **Always confirm** before assigning System Administrator role -- Show the list of target environments before batch operations -- Self-elevation is logged and auditable — warn the user +--- +name: dv-security +description: Security-role assignment, user access, application users, business units, and admin self-elevation in Dataverse environments. Use when the user wants to give someone access, grant a role, become an admin, or add a service principal. +--- + +# Skill: Security — Role Assignment and Self-Elevation + +**This skill uses first-party CLIs — PAC CLI for role changes, Dataverse CLI to verify.** Do NOT write Python scripts for role operations. + +## Preview Before Running + +Role grants and self-elevate are destructive (they change security posture and are logged to Purview). Before running, preview the action in plain prose — target user, role, environment(s) — using placeholders (`<ENV_URL>`, `<USER_EMAIL>`) for anything unknown, and ask for confirmation and missing values in the same turn. Skip the raw `pac admin` block; the user shouldn't have to read CLI syntax to approve a security change. + +**Key principle:** the user should be able to evaluate what's about to happen from your first response. A bare *"which environment?"* fails that test; a one-line prose preview passes it. + +### Examples + +**Assign role (user given, env missing):** +- ❌ "Which environment should I target?" +- ✅ "I'll assign **System Administrator** to `user@contoso.com` on `<ENV_URL>`. Confirm to proceed and provide the target environment URL (or 'all' to list and batch)." + +**Admin access across all environments:** +- ❌ "Please provide your email address." +- ✅ "I'll list your environments, then assign **System Administrator** in parallel on each one for `<YOUR_UPN>`. If `assign-user` fails on any environment, I'll fall back to self-elevate (logged to Purview) for that one. Confirm to proceed and provide your UPN." + +## Skill boundaries + +| Need | Use instead | +|---|---| +| Create or modify tables, columns, relationships | **dv-metadata** | +| Manage org settings, audit, bulk delete, retention | **dv-admin** | +| Query or read records | **dv-query** | +| Write, update, or delete records | **dv-data** | +| Tenant-level governance (DLP, env lifecycle) | `pac admin --help` | + +## Prerequisites + +- PAC CLI installed and authenticated (`pac auth create`) +- System Administrator role in target environment (or Global/PP/D365 Admin for self-elevate) +- Active auth profile: `pac auth list` +- **Headless / restricted-egress hosts**: SDK handles role / user / business-unit ops; service principal for PAC-only ops; verify egress with `python scripts/auth.py --check`. See `dv-connect/references/headless-hosts.md`. + +--- + +## Assign a Security Role to a User + +```bash +pac admin assign-user --user <email-or-object-id> --role "System Administrator" --environment <url> +``` + +### Arguments + +| Argument | Alias | Required | Description | +|----------|-------|----------|-------------| +| `--user` | `-u` | Yes | User email (UPN) or Azure AD object ID | +| `--role` | `-r` | Yes | Security role name (e.g., `System Administrator`, `Basic User`) | +| `--environment` | `-env` | Yes | Target environment URL or ID | +| `--application-user` | `-au` | No | Treat user as an application user (service principal) | +| `--business-unit` | `-bu` | No | Business unit ID. Defaults to the caller's business unit | + +--- + +## Verify the assignment — exit code 0 is not proof + +`pac admin assign-user` **exits 0 even when it fails** (unresolved environment, wrong role name, unknown user). Never treat a clean exit as success. + +1. **Read the output, not just the exit code.** A failed run still exits 0 but prints an error (`environment ... not found`, `role ... does not exist`). Stop if the output contains an error. +2. **Confirm against the exact `--environment` you used** — do not re-resolve or shorten it; a different id silently "succeeds" on the wrong org. Query the user's roles with a Dataverse CLI read: + +```bash +# Resolve the user's systemuserid, then list their assigned roles. +# --context carries plugin/skill/agent attribution on the managed CLI call. +dataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \ + --path "/api/data/v9.2/systemusers?%24select=systemuserid&%24filter=internalemailaddress eq 'user@contoso.com'" \ + --environment <same-url-as-assign> \ + --context "app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>" +dataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \ + --path "/api/data/v9.2/systemusers(<systemuserid>)/systemuserroles_association?%24select=name" \ + --environment <same-url-as-assign> \ + --context "app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>" +``` + +If the first query returns no row, the sign-in identity may live on `domainname` (the AAD UPN) rather than `internalemailaddress` (Primary Email) — retry with `%24filter=domainname eq '<upn>'`, or `azureactivedirectoryobjectid eq '<objectid>'` when you assigned by object id. A missing row is not proof the grant failed. + +If the target role is absent, the assignment did not take — re-run, read the output, or fall back to self-elevate. + +--- + +## Batch Workflow: Assign Role Across Multiple Environments + +Run in parallel — never sequentially: + +``` +Step 1: pac admin list -> Get all environments +Step 2: Filter by type if needed (e.g., Developer, Sandbox) -> Identify targets +Step 3: Confirm with user — show list of target environments +Step 4: Run ALL assignments in a single bash call: +``` + +```bash +pac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role "System Administrator" --environment https://dev1.crm.dynamics.com & +pac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role "System Administrator" --environment https://dev2.crm.dynamics.com & +pac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role "System Administrator" --environment https://dev3.crm.dynamics.com & +wait +``` + +``` +Step 5: Verify each landed (exit 0 is not proof — see above), then report ("Assigned + verified on 3/3 environments") +``` + +**Important**: Always confirm which environments will be affected before assigning roles, and verify each assignment landed — a clean exit code does not prove success. + +--- + +## Tenant Admin Self-Elevation (Fallback) + +**Self-elevation is materially different from assigning a role to another user.** `pac admin assign-user <other>` grants privilege *to someone else*; `pac admin self-elevate` grants privilege *to the caller*. The risk profile and audit posture are different, so the confirmation protocol is stricter. + +If `pac admin assign-user` fails with "user has not been assigned any roles", use: + +```bash +pac admin self-elevate --environment https://myorg.crm.dynamics.com +``` + +- Requires Global Admin, Power Platform Admin, or Dynamics 365 Admin +- All elevations are logged to Microsoft Purview +- Uses the active auth profile if `--environment` is omitted + +### Self-elevation confirmation protocol (stricter than assign-user) + +Before running `pac admin self-elevate`, the agent MUST: + +1. **State the risk explicitly.** Include this wording (or equivalent) in the pre-run summary: + > "This grants YOU System Administrator on `<env>`. The action is logged to Microsoft Purview with your identity and timestamp." +2. **Capture a reason.** Ask for a one-line reason — ticket ID, incident number, or a free-form note such as `"dev sandbox access — no ticket"`. Echo the reason back in the pre-run summary so the user sees what will be on the record. +3. **Wait for an explicit confirmation AFTER the user has seen both (1) and (2).** Do NOT accept a bare "yes" given before the risk statement and reason are on screen. +4. **Do NOT silently fall back.** If `pac admin assign-user` fails, surface the failure first, then offer `self-elevate` with this protocol — never chain them automatically. + +**Flow**: Always try `pac admin assign-user` first. `admin self-elevate` is the documented fallback, gated by the protocol above. + +**CLI fallback**: If `pac admin self-elevate` errors out, self-elevate manually via **Power Platform Admin Center** → select the environment → **Access** → **System Administrator role**. All elevations are still logged to Purview. (In PAC CLI 2.6.4 the command fails with `bolt.authentication.http.AuthenticatedClientException` / `ApiVersionInvalid` because the CLI sends an empty `api-version=` to the backend.) + +--- + +## Safety Rules + +- **Always confirm** before assigning System Administrator role +- Show the list of target environments before batch operations +- Self-elevation is logged and auditable — warn the user
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"---\r\nname: dv-security\r\ndescription: Security-role assignment, user access, application users, business units, and admin self-elevation in Dataverse environments. Use when the user wants to give someone access, grant a role, become an admin, or add a service principal.\r\n---\r\n\r\n# Skill: Security — Role Assignment and Self-Elevation\r\n\r\n**This skill uses first-party CLIs — PAC CLI for role changes, Dataverse CLI to verify.** Do NOT write Python scripts for role operations.\r\n\r\n## Preview Before Running\r\n\r\nRole grants and self-elevate are destructive (they change security posture and are logged to Purview). Before running, preview the action in plain prose — target user, role, environment(s) — using placeholders (`<ENV_URL>`, `<USER_EMAIL>`) for anything unknown, and ask for confirmation and missing values in the same turn. Skip the raw `pac admin` block; the user shouldn't have to read CLI syntax to approve a security change.\r\n\r\n**Key principle:** the user should be able to evaluate what's about to happen from your first response. A bare *\"which environment?\"* fails that test; a one-line prose preview passes it.\r\n\r\n### Examples\r\n\r\n**Assign role (user given, env missing):**\r\n- ❌ \"Which environment should I target?\"\r\n- ✅ \"I'll assign **System Administrator** to `user@contoso.com` on `<ENV_URL>`. Confirm to proceed and provide the target environment URL (or 'all' to list and batch).\"\r\n\r\n**Admin access across all environments:**\r\n- ❌ \"Please provide your email address.\"\r\n- ✅ \"I'll list your environments, then assign **System Administrator** in parallel on each one for `<YOUR_UPN>`. If `assign-user` fails on any environment, I'll fall back to self-elevate (logged to Purview) for that one. Confirm to proceed and provide your UPN.\"\r\n\r\n## Skill boundaries\r\n\r\n| Need | Use instead |\r\n|---|---|\r\n| Create or modify tables, columns, relationships | **dv-metadata** |\r\n| Manage org settings, audit, bulk delete, retention | **dv-admin** |\r\n| Query or read records | **dv-query** |\r\n| Write, update, or delete records | **dv-data** |\r\n| Tenant-level governance (DLP, env lifecycle) | `pac admin --help` |\r\n\r\n## Prerequisites\r\n\r\n- PAC CLI installed and authenticated (`pac auth create`)\r\n- System Administrator role in target environment (or Global/PP/D365 Admin for self-elevate)\r\n- Active auth profile: `pac auth list`\r\n- **Headless / restricted-egress hosts**: SDK handles role / user / business-unit ops; service principal for PAC-only ops; verify egress with `python scripts/auth.py --check`. See `dv-connect/references/headless-hosts.md`.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## Assign a Security Role to a User\r\n\r\n```bash\r\npac admin assign-user --user <email-or-object-id> --role \"System Administrator\" --environment <url>\r\n```\r\n\r\n### Arguments\r\n\r\n| Argument | Alias | Required | Description |\r\n|----------|-------|----------|-------------|\r\n| `--user` | `-u` | Yes | User email (UPN) or Azure AD object ID |\r\n| `--role` | `-r` | Yes | Security role name (e.g., `System Administrator`, `Basic User`) |\r\n| `--environment` | `-env` | Yes | Target environment URL or ID |\r\n| `--application-user` | `-au` | No | Treat user as an application user (service principal) |\r\n| `--business-unit` | `-bu` | No | Business unit ID. Defaults to the caller's business unit |\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## Verify the assignment — exit code 0 is not proof\r\n\r\n`pac admin assign-user` **exits 0 even when it fails** (unresolved environment, wrong role name, unknown user). Never treat a clean exit as success.\r\n\r\n1. **Read the output, not just the exit code.** A failed run still exits 0 but prints an error (`environment ... not found`, `role ... does not exist`). Stop if the output contains an error.\r\n2. **Confirm against the exact `--environment` you used** — do not re-resolve or shorten it; a different id silently \"succeeds\" on the wrong org. Query the user's roles with a Dataverse CLI read:\r\n\r\n```bash\r\n# Resolve the user's systemuserid, then list their assigned roles.\r\n# --context carries plugin/skill/agent attribution on the managed CLI call.\r\ndataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \\\r\n --path \"/api/data/v9.2/systemusers?%24select=systemuserid&%24filter=internalemailaddress eq 'user@contoso.com'\" \\\r\n --environment <same-url-as-assign> \\\r\n --context \"app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>\"\r\ndataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \\\r\n --path \"/api/data/v9.2/systemusers(<systemuserid>)/systemuserroles_association?%24select=name\" \\\r\n --environment <same-url-as-assign> \\\r\n --context \"app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>\"\r\n```\r\n\r\nIf the first query returns no row, the sign-in identity may live on `domainname` (the AAD UPN) rather than `internalemailaddress` (Primary Email) — retry with `%24filter=domainname eq '<upn>'`, or `azureactivedirectoryobjectid eq '<objectid>'` when you assigned by object id. A missing row is not proof the grant failed.\r\n\r\nIf the target role is absent, the assignment did not take — re-run, read the output, or fall back to self-elevate.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## Batch Workflow: Assign Role Across Multiple Environments\r\n\r\nRun in parallel — never sequentially:\r\n\r\n```\r\nStep 1: pac admin list -> Get all environments\r\nStep 2: Filter by type if needed (e.g., Developer, Sandbox) -> Identify targets\r\nStep 3: Confirm with user — show list of target environments\r\nStep 4: Run ALL assignments in a single bash call:\r\n```\r\n\r\n```bash\r\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev1.crm.dynamics.com &\r\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev2.crm.dynamics.com &\r\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev3.crm.dynamics.com &\r\nwait\r\n```\r\n\r\n```\r\nStep 5: Verify each landed (exit 0 is not proof — see above), then report (\"Assigned + verified on 3/3 environments\")\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Important**: Always confirm which environments will be affected before assigning roles, and verify each assignment landed — a clean exit code does not prove success.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## Tenant Admin Self-Elevation (Fallback)\r\n\r\n**Self-elevation is materially different from assigning a role to another user.** `pac admin assign-user <other>` grants privilege *to someone else*; `pac admin self-elevate` grants privilege *to the caller*. The risk profile and audit posture are different, so the confirmation protocol is stricter.\r\n\r\nIf `pac admin assign-user` fails with \"user has not been assigned any roles\", use:\r\n\r\n```bash\r\npac admin self-elevate --environment https://myorg.crm.dynamics.com\r\n```\r\n\r\n- Requires Global Admin, Power Platform Admin, or Dynamics 365 Admin\r\n- All elevations are logged to Microsoft Purview\r\n- Uses the active auth profile if `--environment` is omitted\r\n\r\n### Self-elevation confirmation protocol (stricter than assign-user)\r\n\r\nBefore running `pac admin self-elevate`, the agent MUST:\r\n\r\n1. **State the risk explicitly.** Include this wording (or equivalent) in the pre-run summary:\r\n > \"This grants YOU System Administrator on `<env>`. The action is logged to Microsoft Purview with your identity and timestamp.\"\r\n2. **Capture a reason.** Ask for a one-line reason — ticket ID, incident number, or a free-form note such as `\"dev sandbox access — no ticket\"`. Echo the reason back in the pre-run summary so the user sees what will be on the record.\r\n3. **Wait for an explicit confirmation AFTER the user has seen both (1) and (2).** Do NOT accept a bare \"yes\" given before the risk statement and reason are on screen.\r\n4. **Do NOT silently fall back.** If `pac admin assign-user` fails, surface the failure first, then offer `self-elevate` with this protocol — never chain them automatically.\r\n\r\n**Flow**: Always try `pac admin assign-user` first. `admin self-elevate` is the documented fallback, gated by the protocol above.\r\n\r\n**CLI fallback**: If `pac admin self-elevate` errors out, self-elevate manually via **Power Platform Admin Center** → select the environment → **Access** → **System Administrator role**. All elevations are still logged to Purview. (In PAC CLI 2.6.4 the command fails with `bolt.authentication.http.AuthenticatedClientException` / `ApiVersionInvalid` because the CLI sends an empty `api-version=` to the backend.)\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n## Safety Rules\r\n\r\n- **Always confirm** before assigning System Administrator role\r\n- Show the list of target environments before batch operations\r\n- Self-elevation is logged and auditable — warn the user\r\n"
"---\nname: dv-security\ndescription: Security-role assignment, user access, application users, business units, and admin self-elevation in Dataverse environments. Use when the user wants to give someone access, grant a role, become an admin, or add a service principal.\n---\n\n# Skill: Security — Role Assignment and Self-Elevation\n\n**This skill uses first-party CLIs — PAC CLI for role changes, Dataverse CLI to verify.** Do NOT write Python scripts for role operations.\n\n## Preview Before Running\n\nRole grants and self-elevate are destructive (they change security posture and are logged to Purview). Before running, preview the action in plain prose — target user, role, environment(s) — using placeholders (`<ENV_URL>`, `<USER_EMAIL>`) for anything unknown, and ask for confirmation and missing values in the same turn. Skip the raw `pac admin` block; the user shouldn't have to read CLI syntax to approve a security change.\n\n**Key principle:** the user should be able to evaluate what's about to happen from your first response. A bare *\"which environment?\"* fails that test; a one-line prose preview passes it.\n\n### Examples\n\n**Assign role (user given, env missing):**\n- ❌ \"Which environment should I target?\"\n- ✅ \"I'll assign **System Administrator** to `user@contoso.com` on `<ENV_URL>`. Confirm to proceed and provide the target environment URL (or 'all' to list and batch).\"\n\n**Admin access across all environments:**\n- ❌ \"Please provide your email address.\"\n- ✅ \"I'll list your environments, then assign **System Administrator** in parallel on each one for `<YOUR_UPN>`. If `assign-user` fails on any environment, I'll fall back to self-elevate (logged to Purview) for that one. Confirm to proceed and provide your UPN.\"\n\n## Skill boundaries\n\n| Need | Use instead |\n|---|---|\n| Create or modify tables, columns, relationships | **dv-metadata** |\n| Manage org settings, audit, bulk delete, retention | **dv-admin** |\n| Query or read records | **dv-query** |\n| Write, update, or delete records | **dv-data** |\n| Tenant-level governance (DLP, env lifecycle) | `pac admin --help` |\n\n## Prerequisites\n\n- PAC CLI installed and authenticated (`pac auth create`)\n- System Administrator role in target environment (or Global/PP/D365 Admin for self-elevate)\n- Active auth profile: `pac auth list`\n- **Headless / restricted-egress hosts**: SDK handles role / user / business-unit ops; service principal for PAC-only ops; verify egress with `python scripts/auth.py --check`. See `dv-connect/references/headless-hosts.md`.\n\n---\n\n## Assign a Security Role to a User\n\n```bash\npac admin assign-user --user <email-or-object-id> --role \"System Administrator\" --environment <url>\n```\n\n### Arguments\n\n| Argument | Alias | Required | Description |\n|----------|-------|----------|-------------|\n| `--user` | `-u` | Yes | User email (UPN) or Azure AD object ID |\n| `--role` | `-r` | Yes | Security role name (e.g., `System Administrator`, `Basic User`) |\n| `--environment` | `-env` | Yes | Target environment URL or ID |\n| `--application-user` | `-au` | No | Treat user as an application user (service principal) |\n| `--business-unit` | `-bu` | No | Business unit ID. Defaults to the caller's business unit |\n\n---\n\n## Verify the assignment — exit code 0 is not proof\n\n`pac admin assign-user` **exits 0 even when it fails** (unresolved environment, wrong role name, unknown user). Never treat a clean exit as success.\n\n1. **Read the output, not just the exit code.** A failed run still exits 0 but prints an error (`environment ... not found`, `role ... does not exist`). Stop if the output contains an error.\n2. **Confirm against the exact `--environment` you used** — do not re-resolve or shorten it; a different id silently \"succeeds\" on the wrong org. Query the user's roles with a Dataverse CLI read:\n\n```bash\n# Resolve the user's systemuserid, then list their assigned roles.\n# --context carries plugin/skill/agent attribution on the managed CLI call.\ndataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \\\n --path \"/api/data/v9.2/systemusers?%24select=systemuserid&%24filter=internalemailaddress eq 'user@contoso.com'\" \\\n --environment <same-url-as-assign> \\\n --context \"app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>\"\ndataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \\\n --path \"/api/data/v9.2/systemusers(<systemuserid>)/systemuserroles_association?%24select=name\" \\\n --environment <same-url-as-assign> \\\n --context \"app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>\"\n```\n\nIf the first query returns no row, the sign-in identity may live on `domainname` (the AAD UPN) rather than `internalemailaddress` (Primary Email) — retry with `%24filter=domainname eq '<upn>'`, or `azureactivedirectoryobjectid eq '<objectid>'` when you assigned by object id. A missing row is not proof the grant failed.\n\nIf the target role is absent, the assignment did not take — re-run, read the output, or fall back to self-elevate.\n\n---\n\n## Batch Workflow: Assign Role Across Multiple Environments\n\nRun in parallel — never sequentially:\n\n```\nStep 1: pac admin list -> Get all environments\nStep 2: Filter by type if needed (e.g., Developer, Sandbox) -> Identify targets\nStep 3: Confirm with user — show list of target environments\nStep 4: Run ALL assignments in a single bash call:\n```\n\n```bash\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev1.crm.dynamics.com &\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev2.crm.dynamics.com &\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev3.crm.dynamics.com &\nwait\n```\n\n```\nStep 5: Verify each landed (exit 0 is not proof — see above), then report (\"Assigned + verified on 3/3 environments\")\n```\n\n**Important**: Always confirm which environments will be affected before assigning roles, and verify each assignment landed — a clean exit code does not prove success.\n\n---\n\n## Tenant Admin Self-Elevation (Fallback)\n\n**Self-elevation is materially different from assigning a role to another user.** `pac admin assign-user <other>` grants privilege *to someone else*; `pac admin self-elevate` grants privilege *to the caller*. The risk profile and audit posture are different, so the confirmation protocol is stricter.\n\nIf `pac admin assign-user` fails with \"user has not been assigned any roles\", use:\n\n```bash\npac admin self-elevate --environment https://myorg.crm.dynamics.com\n```\n\n- Requires Global Admin, Power Platform Admin, or Dynamics 365 Admin\n- All elevations are logged to Microsoft Purview\n- Uses the active auth profile if `--environment` is omitted\n\n### Self-elevation confirmation protocol (stricter than assign-user)\n\nBefore running `pac admin self-elevate`, the agent MUST:\n\n1. **State the risk explicitly.** Include this wording (or equivalent) in the pre-run summary:\n > \"This grants YOU System Administrator on `<env>`. The action is logged to Microsoft Purview with your identity and timestamp.\"\n2. **Capture a reason.** Ask for a one-line reason — ticket ID, incident number, or a free-form note such as `\"dev sandbox access — no ticket\"`. Echo the reason back in the pre-run summary so the user sees what will be on the record.\n3. **Wait for an explicit confirmation AFTER the user has seen both (1) and (2).** Do NOT accept a bare \"yes\" given before the risk statement and reason are on screen.\n4. **Do NOT silently fall back.** If `pac admin assign-user` fails, surface the failure first, then offer `self-elevate` with this protocol — never chain them automatically.\n\n**Flow**: Always try `pac admin assign-user` first. `admin self-elevate` is the documented fallback, gated by the protocol above.\n\n**CLI fallback**: If `pac admin self-elevate` errors out, self-elevate manually via **Power Platform Admin Center** → select the environment → **Access** → **System Administrator role**. All elevations are still logged to Purview. (In PAC CLI 2.6.4 the command fails with `bolt.authentication.http.AuthenticatedClientException` / `ApiVersionInvalid` because the CLI sends an empty `api-version=` to the backend.)\n\n---\n\n## Safety Rules\n\n- **Always confirm** before assigning System Administrator role\n- Show the list of target environments before batch operations\n- Self-elevation is logged and auditable — warn the user\n"
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"skill_md_contents": "---\nname: dv-security\ndescription: Security-role assignment, user access, application users, business units, and admin self-elevation in Dataverse environments. Use when the user wants to give someone access, grant a role, become an admin, or add a service principal.\n---\n\n# Skill: Security — Role Assignment and Self-Elevation\n\n**This skill uses first-party CLIs — PAC CLI for role changes, Dataverse CLI to verify.** Do NOT write Python scripts for role operations.\n\n## Preview Before Running\n\nRole grants and self-elevate are destructive (they change security posture and are logged to Purview). Before running, preview the action in plain prose — target user, role, environment(s) — using placeholders (`<ENV_URL>`, `<USER_EMAIL>`) for anything unknown, and ask for confirmation and missing values in the same turn. Skip the raw `pac admin` block; the user shouldn't have to read CLI syntax to approve a security change.\n\n**Key principle:** the user should be able to evaluate what's about to happen from your first response. A bare *\"which environment?\"* fails that test; a one-line prose preview passes it.\n\n### Examples\n\n**Assign role (user given, env missing):**\n- ❌ \"Which environment should I target?\"\n- ✅ \"I'll assign **System Administrator** to `user@contoso.com` on `<ENV_URL>`. Confirm to proceed and provide the target environment URL (or 'all' to list and batch).\"\n\n**Admin access across all environments:**\n- ❌ \"Please provide your email address.\"\n- ✅ \"I'll list your environments, then assign **System Administrator** in parallel on each one for `<YOUR_UPN>`. If `assign-user` fails on any environment, I'll fall back to self-elevate (logged to Purview) for that one. Confirm to proceed and provide your UPN.\"\n\n## Skill boundaries\n\n| Need | Use instead |\n|---|---|\n| Create or modify tables, columns, relationships | **dv-metadata** |\n| Manage org settings, audit, bulk delete, retention | **dv-admin** |\n| Query or read records | **dv-query** |\n| Write, update, or delete records | **dv-data** |\n| Tenant-level governance (DLP, env lifecycle) | `pac admin --help` |\n\n## Prerequisites\n\n- PAC CLI installed and authenticated (`pac auth create`)\n- System Administrator role in target environment (or Global/PP/D365 Admin for self-elevate)\n- Active auth profile: `pac auth list`\n- **Headless / restricted-egress hosts**: SDK handles role / user / business-unit ops; service principal for PAC-only ops; verify egress with `python scripts/auth.py --check`. See `dv-connect/references/headless-hosts.md`.\n\n---\n\n## Assign a Security Role to a User\n\n```bash\npac admin assign-user --user <email-or-object-id> --role \"System Administrator\" --environment <url>\n```\n\n### Arguments\n\n| Argument | Alias | Required | Description |\n|----------|-------|----------|-------------|\n| `--user` | `-u` | Yes | User email (UPN) or Azure AD object ID |\n| `--role` | `-r` | Yes | Security role name (e.g., `System Administrator`, `Basic User`) |\n| `--environment` | `-env` | Yes | Target environment URL or ID |\n| `--application-user` | `-au` | No | Treat user as an application user (service principal) |\n| `--business-unit` | `-bu` | No | Business unit ID. Defaults to the caller's business unit |\n\n---\n\n## Verify the assignment — exit code 0 is not proof\n\n`pac admin assign-user` **exits 0 even when it fails** (unresolved environment, wrong role name, unknown user). Never treat a clean exit as success.\n\n1. **Read the output, not just the exit code.** A failed run still exits 0 but prints an error (`environment ... not found`, `role ... does not exist`). Stop if the output contains an error.\n2. **Confirm against the exact `--environment` you used** — do not re-resolve or shorten it; a different id silently \"succeeds\" on the wrong org. Query the user's roles with a Dataverse CLI read:\n\n```bash\n# Resolve the user's systemuserid, then list their assigned roles.\n# --context carries plugin/skill/agent attribution on the managed CLI call.\ndataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \\\n --path \"/api/data/v9.2/systemusers?%24select=systemuserid&%24filter=internalemailaddress eq 'user@contoso.com'\" \\\n --environment <same-url-as-assign> \\\n --context \"app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>\"\ndataverse api request --target dataverse --method GET \\\n --path \"/api/data/v9.2/systemusers(<systemuserid>)/systemuserroles_association?%24select=name\" \\\n --environment <same-url-as-assign> \\\n --context \"app=dataverse-skills/<ver>;skill=dv-security;agent=<agent>\"\n```\n\nIf the first query returns no row, the sign-in identity may live on `domainname` (the AAD UPN) rather than `internalemailaddress` (Primary Email) — retry with `%24filter=domainname eq '<upn>'`, or `azureactivedirectoryobjectid eq '<objectid>'` when you assigned by object id. A missing row is not proof the grant failed.\n\nIf the target role is absent, the assignment did not take — re-run, read the output, or fall back to self-elevate.\n\n---\n\n## Batch Workflow: Assign Role Across Multiple Environments\n\nRun in parallel — never sequentially:\n\n```\nStep 1: pac admin list -> Get all environments\nStep 2: Filter by type if needed (e.g., Developer, Sandbox) -> Identify targets\nStep 3: Confirm with user — show list of target environments\nStep 4: Run ALL assignments in a single bash call:\n```\n\n```bash\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev1.crm.dynamics.com &\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev2.crm.dynamics.com &\npac admin assign-user --user user@contoso.com --role \"System Administrator\" --environment https://dev3.crm.dynamics.com &\nwait\n```\n\n```\nStep 5: Verify each landed (exit 0 is not proof — see above), then report (\"Assigned + verified on 3/3 environments\")\n```\n\n**Important**: Always confirm which environments will be affected before assigning roles, and verify each assignment landed — a clean exit code does not prove success.\n\n---\n\n## Tenant Admin Self-Elevation (Fallback)\n\n**Self-elevation is materially different from assigning a role to another user.** `pac admin assign-user <other>` grants privilege *to someone else*; `pac admin self-elevate` grants privilege *to the caller*. The risk profile and audit posture are different, so the confirmation protocol is stricter.\n\nIf `pac admin assign-user` fails with \"user has not been assigned any roles\", use:\n\n```bash\npac admin self-elevate --environment https://myorg.crm.dynamics.com\n```\n\n- Requires Global Admin, Power Platform Admin, or Dynamics 365 Admin\n- All elevations are logged to Microsoft Purview\n- Uses the active auth profile if `--environment` is omitted\n\n### Self-elevation confirmation protocol (stricter than assign-user)\n\nBefore running `pac admin self-elevate`, the agent MUST:\n\n1. **State the risk explicitly.** Include this wording (or equivalent) in the pre-run summary:\n > \"This grants YOU System Administrator on `<env>`. The action is logged to Microsoft Purview with your identity and timestamp.\"\n2. **Capture a reason.** Ask for a one-line reason — ticket ID, incident number, or a free-form note such as `\"dev sandbox access — no ticket\"`. Echo the reason back in the pre-run summary so the user sees what will be on the record.\n3. **Wait for an explicit confirmation AFTER the user has seen both (1) and (2).** Do NOT accept a bare \"yes\" given before the risk statement and reason are on screen.\n4. **Do NOT silently fall back.** If `pac admin assign-user` fails, surface the failure first, then offer `self-elevate` with this protocol — never chain them automatically.\n\n**Flow**: Always try `pac admin assign-user` first. `admin self-elevate` is the documented fallback, gated by the protocol above.\n\n**CLI fallback**: If `pac admin self-elevate` errors out, self-elevate manually via **Power Platform Admin Center** → select the environment → **Access** → **System Administrator role**. All elevations are still logged to Purview. (In PAC CLI 2.6.4 the command fails with `bolt.authentication.http.AuthenticatedClientException` / `ApiVersionInvalid` because the CLI sends an empty `api-version=` to the backend.)\n\n---\n\n## Safety Rules\n\n- **Always confirm** before assigning System Administrator role\n- Show the list of target environments before batch operations\n- Self-elevation is logged and auditable — warn the user\n"
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