I have previously written about Power Platform turning into an all-code development platform. My main argument is that the concrete benefits from AI have largely materialized on the side of the platform where code-first development has been well supported. Whereas anything in these Microsoft products that had made a big bet on the GUI was struggling to match LLM capabilities with user expectations.

If the maker portals are something you should ditch, how does one approach the Power Platform without logging into those? The official path built by Microsoft is the Power Platform Skills repo. It’s described as “a plugin marketplace for Claude Code/GitHub Copilot that provides Power Platform development plugins, including reusable skills, agents, and commands for building and deploying solutions.”

Yeah, I know. This is hardly the most citizen developer friendly front door into the world of AI-driven Power Platform solution development. I didn’t find any alternative landing page from Microsoft. While I’d expect the Power CAT team to generate something eventually, there’s a bit of a conflict with the fact that the CATs have their own skills repo. And let’s not even talk about how the PP skills are actually plugins that contain skills…

The interesting part is that the power-platform-skills repo really does represent more than just a community template — which was the way CoE Starter Kit was presented, for example. These are “Official agent skills/plugins for Power Platform development by Microsoft”. That sounds more authoritative and product-like, even though we have no idea yet what kind of support policy these kinds of artifacts and development approaches will be getting.

Unlike the traditional product surfaces for low-code, this Power Platform Skills repo is MIT licensed and wide open for exploration. Which is great news for someone like me who always likes to look behind the marketing facade and understand what the true capabilities and limitations of Microsoft’s software products are. Which is precisely what I’m about to do today.

At the moment, we have seven plugins available in the repo. While these don’t cover nearly everything you could build via the graphical UI of maker portals, the list has grown to be pretty extensive. With Power Pages making the debut in January 2026 and Generative Pages (under model-apps) in February, the set of skills now reads more like an intentional project to give AI coding agents guidance for all the main ingredients of Power Platform. Where it is feasible, that is.

I have cloned the repo on my local PC and pointed my LLM buddy Claude Code at the files to make more sense of what is in there and what it’s good for. As a reminder, skills are really just Markdown files that contain natural language instructions for the agent. As an example, here’s what the create-site SKILL.md for Power Pages looks like:

You’re not meant to read that, though. It’s meant for the coding agent to read. Also, I’m pretty confident that the majority of those skill files are written by a similar coding agent, rather than a Microsoft employee. We’ve reached a point where AI writes the instructions for AI and us humans just click “accept” in the chat window. Welcome to software development in 2026 where no one understands what’s being built anymore. Except for Claude, of course.