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add-sample-data

Populates Dataverse tables with sample records for testing and demoing a Power Pages site. Use when the user wants to add sample data, seed data, generate test records, or insert demo data into their tables.

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Content

82%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, highly actionable workflow skill: executable commands in every phase, user gates at the right decision points, and batch-insert verification. The main improvable areas are redundant restatement of the core principles across sections and the absence of any retry/recovery loop for failed inserts.

Suggestions

State each core principle (insertion order, fail-gracefully, task tracking) once — in Core Principles — and drop the restatements in Important Notes and Phase 5.5 to reclaim tokens.

Add a bounded retry hint for transient insert failures (e.g., one retry on 429/401 after token refresh) before falling back to the log-and-continue policy, closing the workflow_clarity feedback-loop gap.

Normalize reference paths to the ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/... form everywhere, including the two bare 'references/odata-record-patterns.md' mentions in 4.1 and Phase 5.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is largely lean and command-driven with no explanations of concepts Claude already knows, but key principles are repeated three to four times: 'Respect insertion order' appears in Core Principles, 3.3, 5.3, and Important Notes; 'Fail gracefully / never rollback' in Core Principles, 5.5, and Important Notes; TaskCreate/TaskUpdate guidance in Core Principles, Phase 1, 5.5, Important Notes, and the Progress Tracking section. This matches 'Efficient; minor instances of over-explanation that could be trimmed' rather than the mostly-tight 5 anchor, and it is too disciplined overall for the 3 anchor's unnecessary explanations.

4 / 5

Actionability

Every phase provides copy-paste-ready commands with full query strings, e.g. the OData discovery call, the POST with --body '{"cr123_name":"Sample Record",...}' --include-headers, and the @odata.bind lookup syntax in 5.4 — including how to parse the OData-EntityId GUID. Placeholders (<envUrl>, <table>) are clear and the picklist OptionSet query is fully specified, matching 'Fully executable; copy-paste ready code or commands'.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Six phases are clearly sequenced with explicit goals, outputs, user gates at decision points, a preview-approval checkpoint before insertion, a per-record failure log, and a Phase 6 count verification — so the batch-operation validation cap at 3 does not apply. However the failure policy is 'log and continue' with no validate→fix→retry feedback loop for failed inserts, which is exactly the minor gap separating the 4 anchor ('most checkpoints present; minor validation gaps') from the 5 anchor's 'feedback loops for error recovery'.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The SKILL.md is a well-signaled overview that pushes detail to references (dataverse-prerequisites.md, datamodel-manifest-schema.md, skill-tracking-reference.md, odata-record-patterns.md — verified to exist and be relevant), keeping only workflow-level commands inline. Minor gaps keep it at 4 rather than 5: the path style is inconsistent ('references/odata-record-patterns.md' vs '${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/...'), and odata-record-patterns.md itself defers to a further shared file (odata-common.md), adding a second hop.

4 / 5

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17

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20

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Description

90%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: third-person, concise, with an explicit 'Use when' clause and multiple natural trigger synonyms. Its only weakness is that it names a single capability (populating tables) without hinting at richer behaviors like relationship-aware insertion, which limits specificity.

Suggestions

Add one or two more concrete capabilities to the what-clause, e.g. 'Populates Dataverse tables with sample records (including lookup relationships and valid picklist values) for testing and demoing a Power Pages site.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

"Populates Dataverse tables with sample records for testing and demoing a Power Pages site" names the domain and one concrete action, matching the anchor 'Names domain and 1-2 concrete actions, but not comprehensive'. It does not list several specific actions (e.g., handling lookup relationships or picklist values), so it does not reach 4; it is far more concrete than the domain-only anchor at 2.

3 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both: what ("Populates Dataverse tables with sample records for testing and demoing a Power Pages site") and when ("Use when the user wants to add sample data, seed data, generate test records, or insert demo data"), with concrete trigger phrases — a direct match for the 5-anchor example. Not 4, because the 'when' clause is fully explicit rather than improvable.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"Use when the user wants to add sample data, seed data, generate test records, or insert demo data into their tables" covers natural synonyms comprehensively — add, seed, generate, insert, sample/test/demo data. These are exactly the phrases a user would say; not the 4-anchor case of 'a few natural terms missing' since the core action's variations are all covered (no file extensions apply to this domain).

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"Dataverse tables" and "Power Pages site" establish a clear niche, and the triggers (sample/seed/test/demo data into their tables) are distinct from neighboring skills like site creation or deployment. It is not the 4-anchor case of minor overlap with closely related skills, since the platform-specific vocabulary makes mis-triggering unlikely.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

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Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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'allowed-tools' contains unusual tool name(s)

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Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository

microsoft/power-platform-skills

Path

plugins/power-pages/skills/add-sample-data/SKILL.md

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