Add dataverse Copilot skills

[Evannoshy]

Adds Dataverse Copilot skills for Power Apps Code Apps (prompts + SKILL metadata). Source of truth in templates/github; .github contains symlinked discovery entries. Includes dataverse-query (sanitization, pagination cap, 429 handling, AbortController) and deploy (pre-flight, build checks, safe push). Ready for review against develop.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds two new GitHub template “skills” for Power Apps Code Apps: one to scaffold typed Dataverse query hooks using generated services, and one to build/validate/deploy Code Apps via the @microsoft/power-apps CLI. It extends the existing templates/github/{skills,prompts} system with new SKILL metadata + prompt playbooks.

Changes:

• Added codeapp-deploy skill metadata and a deployment prompt with pre-flight checks, build gating, and controlled retry/confirmation behavior.
• Added codeapp-dataverse-query skill metadata and a hook-generation prompt with guidance for sanitization, pagination caps, and throttling handling.
• Linked the two skills to form a “query then deploy” workflow.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 8 out of 8 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

File	Description
templates/github/skills/codeapp-deploy/SKILL.md	New skill metadata/README for Code App deployment, including usage and related-skill linkage.
templates/github/skills/codeapp-dataverse-query/SKILL.md	New skill metadata/README for scaffolding typed Dataverse query hooks via generated services.
templates/github/prompts/codeapp-deploy.prompt.md	New deployment prompt defining phased validation/build/deploy/report rules and safety constraints.
templates/github/prompts/codeapp-dataverse-query.prompt.md	New Dataverse hook generator prompt defining service-only access patterns, sanitization, pagination, and retry behavior.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (6)

templates/github/skills/codeapp-deploy/SKILL.md:10

• metadata.generatedBy is inconsistent with the rest of the skill templates in this repo (most existing skills use generatedBy: "1.3.1", e.g. templates/github/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md:9). If generatedBy is meant to reflect the generator version, update it here to match the current template set (or document why this skill differs).

metadata:
  author: powerplatform-skills
  version: "1.0"
  generatedBy: "1.0.0"
---

templates/github/skills/codeapp-deploy/SKILL.md:46

• Skill invocation examples use a --environment flag, but the prompt's Input section describes the post-command argument as a positional environment identifier. Align the public interface so users don’t have to guess whether to call /codeapp:deploy <env> vs /codeapp:deploy --environment <env>.

**Usage**:

/codeapp:deploy
/codeapp:deploy --environment https://org123.crm.dynamics.com

templates/github/skills/codeapp-dataverse-query/SKILL.md:10

• metadata.generatedBy is inconsistent with the rest of the skill templates in this repo (most existing skills use generatedBy: "1.3.1", e.g. templates/github/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md:9). If this field is used for auditing or tooling, update it here to match the current generator version (or document the divergence).

metadata:
  author: powerplatform-skills
  version: "1.0"
  generatedBy: "1.0.0"
---

templates/github/prompts/codeapp-deploy.prompt.md:85

• The build output validation and size checks use POSIX-only shell commands (test, du). If this skill is intended to work for Windows users too, add PowerShell equivalents or use a cross-platform Node script approach; otherwise, explicitly state that these steps assume a Unix-like shell (Codespaces/Linux runner).

8. **Validate build output**:
   ```bash
   test -d dist && test -f dist/index.html

• If missing → stop. Build produced no output.

9. Check bundle size:

   du -sh dist/

   • If > 30 MB → warn: "Bundle exceeds the ~30 MB Code Apps upload limit. Consider code-splitting, removing unused dependencies, or optimizing assets."

**templates/github/prompts/codeapp-dataverse-query.prompt.md:97**
* The 429 retry snippet increments `retryCount` but never resets it after a successful request/page. This can cause later pages to stop retrying early (or break) due to retries consumed by previous pages. Make retry counting scoped per request/page, or reset `retryCount` on success.

```typescript
const delay = (ms: number) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
let retryCount = 0;

// Inside pagination or retry logic:
if (result.error?.message?.includes('Rate limit') || result.error?.message?.includes('429')) {
  const backoff = Math.min(2000 * Math.pow(2, retryCount), 8000);
  await delay(backoff);
  retryCount++;
  if (retryCount >= 3) break; // Max 3 retries
  continue; // Retry the same page
}
```
Maximum 3 retries with exponential backoff (2s, 4s, 8s), then stop and return partial data with a warning.

**templates/github/prompts/codeapp-dataverse-query.prompt.md:207**
* The AbortController example calls `controller.abort()`, but the controller’s `signal` is never passed into `ContactsService.getAll(...)`. As written, this does not abort the underlying request—only prevents state updates after completion. Either pass the signal if the generated services support it, or reword the guidance/comments to reflect “ignore stale responses” rather than “abort request”.

    // Abort previous in-flight request
    abortRef.current?.abort();
    const controller = new AbortController();
    abortRef.current = controller;

    const load = async () => {
      setLoading(true);
      setError(null);
      try {
        const result = await ContactsService.getAll({
          select: ['contactid', 'fullname', 'emailaddress1'],
          filter: `statecode eq 0 and contains(fullname,'${sanitize(searchTerm)}')`,
          top: 50,
        });
        if (controller.signal.aborted) return; // Stale response
        if (result.data) {

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Lets test it out in develop branch