create-app Skill
Creates Microsoft Apps using React and Vite. Use when scaffolding a new app with ms app create and ending on local dev with ms app dev. Published by microsoft in Managed-Apps.
What is create-app Skill?
Creates Microsoft Apps using React and Vite. Use when scaffolding a new app with ms app create and ending on local dev with ms app dev. Published by microsoft in Managed-Apps. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.
Automated repository signals based on public metadata such as recency, license, installation evidence, and adoption. These are not a security audit or endorsement.
Key capabilities
- Includes SKILL.md support
- Reusable instructions support
- Deployment
- Data analysis
- Design and media
- Deployment use cases
- Data analysis use cases
Technical details
- Install or run with Copy skill directory
When to use create-app Skill
- Use it for deployment.
- Use it for data analysis.
- Use it for design and media.
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Source
- Creator: microsoft
- Repository: microsoft/Managed-Apps
- Skill file: plugins/microsoft-managed-apps/skills/create-app/SKILL.md
What it does
Creates Microsoft Apps using React and Vite. Use when scaffolding a new app with ms app create and ending on local dev with ms app dev.
Skill instructions
📋 Shared Instructions: shared-instructions.md — Cross-cutting concerns. References: - prerequisites-reference.md — Node, git, CLI install, allowedPrompts. - troubleshooting.md — First-run Git Credential Manager trap, common ms app create failures. Create a Microsoft App This skill scaffolds a new Microsoft App end-to-end using @microsoft/managed-apps-cli (binary ms). The default outcome is a running local dev server, not a deployed cloud app. Deploying is a separate, explicit user choice via /deploy. Workflow 1. Memory Bank → 2. Prerequisites → 3. Gather Requirements → 4. Plan → 5. Auth → 6. Environment → 7. Scaffold → 8. Add Data Sources → 9. Implement App → 10. Local Dev → 11. Summary → 12. Memory Bank Update Critical principle: when this skill ends and the user opens the local URL, they must see a functional app — connectors wired, screens implemented per the approved plan — not a bare template. Adding data sources and implementing the UI happen inside this skill, before ms app dev
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Frequently asked questions
What is create-app?
create-app is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Creates Microsoft Apps using React and Vite. Use when scaffolding a new app with ms app create and ending on local dev with ms app dev.
Who is create-app best for?
create-app is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, deployment workflows, data analysis workflows, design and media workflows.
How do I install create-app?
Install or run create-app using Copy skill directory. Check create-app for the latest setup command.
Is create-app actively maintained?
create-app may need a closer maintenance check before production use.
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