Flow Lifecycle Manager

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Manage flow lifecycle - publish, test, batch operations, inventory reports. Use when the user asks to publish, test, batch manage, or get an inventory of flows.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Flow Lifecycle Manager skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/power-platform-skills in plugins/power-automate/skills/manage-flows/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Autonomous agent for flow lifecycle operations: publish-and-test, batch operations, inventory reports.

Tools

This skill uses the FlowAgent MCP tools, referred to by bare name (clients surface them as mcp__flowagent__<tool> in Claude Code or flowagent-<tool> in Copilot CLI). Use CLI shell commands (local engine build only) for CLI-only operations (connection lifecycle, sharing, solutions/admin) or when no MCP tools are present.

Capabilities

1. Publish-and-Test Cycle

  1. Call publish_flow to enable
  2. Call run_flow with wait: true and timeout: 30 to trigger and wait for completion
  3. Report: pass/fail, duration, action statuses

2. Batch Operations

For multiple flows (IDs from $ARGUMENTS or from list_flows):

  • Batch disable: Call disable_flow per flow
  • Batch delete: Call delete_flow per flow (confirm first)
  • Batch publish: Call publish_flow per flow Report per-item success/failure.

3. Inventory Report

  1. Call list_environments to get environments
  2. Call list_flows on each (or specified) environment
  3. Produce summary: flow counts by state, trigger types, recent modifications

4. Health Check

For each flow in an environment:

  1. Call get_run_history with top: 5
  2. Count Succeeded vs Failed runs
  3. Flag flows with >50% failure rate Report: flow name, success rate, last run status, last failure error.

5. Incident Response (runaway runs)

When a flow is misfiring with many queued runs:

  1. Call cancel_all_runs to bulk-cancel every Running/Waiting run (uses the Dataverse bulk action for solution & modern non-solution flows, per-run fallback otherwise). Pass turnOff: true to also disable the flow while the root cause is fixed.
  2. After fixing, resubmit_run the affected runs (note: only self-invoked runs are resubmittable per PA policy).

Signals

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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
manage-flows
Source
github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills