import-solution

Plugin check: Run node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js" — if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.

import-solution

Imports a solution zip into a target Dataverse environment via ImportSolutionAsync. Supports optional staged import via StageSolution to check for missing dependencies before committing.

Prerequisites

• PAC CLI installed and authenticated to the target environment
• Azure CLI installed and logged in
• Solution zip file exists on disk (produced by export-solution)

Phases

Phase 0 — ALM plan gate

plan-alm is the front door. When the user expresses an ALM intent (promote / ship / deploy / set up CI-CD / move to staging / push to prod), the orchestrator (/power-pages:plan-alm) should run first. This Phase 0 enforces that and is meant to fail closed when there's no plan, not to be a one-time check the user can dismiss forever.

Skip rule. If this skill was invoked as part of an active plan-alm orchestration, skip Phase 0 entirely and proceed to Phase 1. The gate helper exposes this via its inExecution block — pass through silently to Phase 1 when:

inExecution.status === "active"

The helper computes this from docs/.alm-plan-data.json — PLAN_STATUS === "In Execution" AND LAST_INVOCATION_AT within the last 60 minutes. check-alm-plan.js refreshes LAST_INVOCATION_AT automatically on every invocation that finds the plan in execution, so each in-chain skill keeps the chain alive for the next one — even multi-hour deploys (deploy-pipeline alone can take 60 min per stage) survive the window without the chain incorrectly de-classifying. Stalled chains (no heartbeat for > 60 min) reclassify as stale-heartbeat and Phase 0 gates fire normally so an abandoned plan doesn't silently bypass user confirmation.

When inExecution.status is anything other than "active" ("not-running", "stale-heartbeat", "no-plan"), run the Phase 0 gate flow below. Branch on the remaining helper fields:

Step 1 — Run the gate helper.

node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/lib/check-alm-plan.js" --projectRoot "."

The helper returns JSON with { exists, deferred, stale, staleness: { reason, detail }, generatedAt, planStatus, ... }. Pass --envUrl, --token, --solutionId once Phase 1 has acquired them if you also want a freshness check; otherwise the helper does an existence-only check, which is sufficient for the gate decision below.

Step 2 — Branch on the result.

Result	Behavior
deferred: true	The user has explicitly deferred ALM for this project (.alm-deferred marker present). Pass through silently to Phase 1 — do not nag.
exists: false	The user hasn't run plan-alm yet. See Step 3.
exists: true, stale: false	Plan is current. Pass through silently to Phase 1.
exists: true, stale: true (reason: solution-modified)	The solution changed after the plan was generated. See Step 4.

Step 3 — No plan. Tell the user:

"No ALM plan exists for this project. /power-pages:plan-alm builds one — it detects the project state, asks about your promotion strategy (PP Pipelines vs Manual export/import), and orchestrates the right skills (including this one) in the right order. Want me to run plan-alm now?"

🚦 Gate (intent · import-solution:0.no-plan): Fail-closed entry gate when check-alm-plan.js returns exists:false. Helper-script-backed.

AskUserQuestion:

Question	Header	Options
Run /power-pages:plan-alm first?	ALM plan gate	Yes — run /power-pages:plan-alm now (Recommended), Continue without a plan (advanced — I know what I'm doing), Cancel

• Yes (Recommended) → invoke /power-pages:plan-alm. It builds the plan and returns — plan-alm is a planner and does not deploy. This skill then re-runs the Phase 0 check (now exists:true) and proceeds to Phase 1.
• Continue without a plan → set BYPASSED_PLAN_GATE = true and proceed to Phase 1.
• Cancel → exit cleanly.

Step 4 — Stale plan. Tell the user:

"ALM plan exists from {generatedAt} but the source solution has been modified since (at {solution.modifiedon}). Components may have changed. Re-running plan-alm will refresh the analysis and the rendered HTML."

🚦 Gate (intent · import-solution:0.stale-plan): Fail-closed entry gate when check-alm-plan.js returns stale:true. Helper-script-backed.

AskUserQuestion:

Question	Header	Options
Refresh the plan first?	ALM plan freshness	Refresh — re-run /power-pages:plan-alm (Recommended), Continue with the existing plan, Cancel

• Refresh (Recommended) → invoke /power-pages:plan-alm. After completion, re-run the Phase 0 helper once to confirm freshness; if still stale, surface the detail and proceed to Phase 1 anyway (don't infinite-loop).
• Continue → set STALE_PLAN_ACK = true and proceed to Phase 1.
• Cancel → exit cleanly.

Why this gate exists. Direct invocation of import-solution deploys a zip into a target environment without the orchestrator's deployment-strategy selection or post-import validation steps. Users running this skill standalone often skip the staged-import dependency check, miss env var override values for the target environment, and have no plan-tracked record of which environment received which artifact version. The gate ensures plan-alm either ran (so the strategy was selected, per-stage values were captured in deployment-settings.json, and the deployment is reproducible) or the user explicitly chose to bypass it.

Phase 1 — Verify Prerequisites

Create all tasks upfront at the start of this phase.

Tasks to create:

1. "Verify prerequisites"
2. "Locate solution file"
3. "Configure import"
4. "Stage solution (dependency check)"
5. "Import solution"
6. "Verify import"
7. "Detect cloud flows"
8. "Present summary"

Note: If the import fails with an AttachmentBlocked error, a Phase 5b remediation flow runs inline — no additional task is needed (it continues within the "Import solution" task). The "Detect cloud flows" task is skipped automatically if no Workflows/*.json files are present in the solution zip.

Steps:

1. Run pac env who — extract environmentUrl (verify this is the target environment)
2. Run az account get-access-token --resource "{environmentUrl}" --query accessToken -o tsv — capture token
3. Verify API access: GET {environmentUrl}/api/data/v9.2/WhoAmI
4. Present target environment URL and ask user to confirm this is correct before proceeding.

Important: Confirm the target environment with the user — importing to the wrong environment can be disruptive.

If any check fails, stop (reference ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/dataverse-prerequisites.md).

Phase 1.5 — Ground in current ALM documentation

Reference: ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/alm-docs-grounding.md

Cap this step at ~30 seconds. If MCP search / fetch errors out, log a one-line note and continue — this skill must remain runnable offline.

1. Run microsoft_docs_search with the query: Power Pages solution import staging missing dependencies ImportSolutionAsync ALM.
2. Fetch https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/solution-concepts-alm (and at most one sister page on staged imports or dependency handling) in parallel via microsoft_docs_fetch.
3. Extract a one-paragraph summary of what Microsoft Learn currently says about staging vs direct import, dependency resolution, and component-level error handling. Compare against ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/solution-api-patterns.md and flag any divergence in ImportSolutionAsync / StageSolution signatures.
4. Use the summary to inform Phase 2+ decisions. Do not silently change skill behavior — surface any divergence to the user as a soft warning before Phase 4 (the actual import).

Phase 2 — Locate Solution File

1. If a zip path was provided as an argument, use it directly

2. Otherwise, search for solution zips: glob('**/*.zip', { ignore: ['**/node_modules/**'] })

3. For each found zip, verify it contains solution.xml:

   • Use Bash: unzip -l "{zipPath}" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi solution.xml

4. If multiple valid zips found, ask user to choose:

   🚦 Gate (plan · import-solution:2.multiple-zips): More than one valid solution zip was discovered under the project root. User picks which one to import. Cancel exits before any target-env interaction.

   Use AskUserQuestion with one option per valid zip — show filename + size + modified date so the user can identify the right one (most-recent export is usually the intended target).

5. If no valid zip found: stop and explain — run export-solution first or provide the zip path

Step 5a — Pre-import content inspection (run after zip is confirmed, before presenting to user):

Inspect the zip to surface post-import manual requirements. Run all checks in sequence:

# 1. Connection references (require user-binding post-import)
unzip -p "{zipPath}" customizations.xml 2>/dev/null | grep -c '<connectionreference '

# 2. Bots (require republishing in target environment)
unzip -l "{zipPath}" 2>/dev/null | grep -qi "bots/" && echo "found" || echo "none"

# 3. Cloud flows with hardcoded environment URLs (will silently fail in target)
unzip -p "{zipPath}" "Workflows/*.json" 2>/dev/null | grep -o '"organization":\s*"https://[^"]*"' | head -5

Build a postImportWarnings list from the results:

Finding	Warning to surface
connectionreference count > 0	"⚠️ Connection references: This solution includes N connection(s) (e.g. Dataverse connector). After import, you must bind each connection reference to a live connection in the target environment, or cloud flows that depend on them will be disabled."
bots/ folder present	"⚠️ Copilot Studio bot: This solution includes a bot. After import, the bot must be republished in the target environment to complete provisioning."
Hardcoded org URL found	"⚠️ Hardcoded environment URL: The cloud flow contains a hardcoded environment URL ({foundUrl}). This will cause the flow to call the source environment after import. Edit the flow in the target environment to update the URL."

If postImportWarnings is non-empty, display all warnings inline (not via AskUserQuestion) before presenting the zip details. The user should see these before confirming.

Present the selected zip file details (name, size, path), any pre-import warnings, and confirm with user.

Phase 3 — Configure Import

Step 3.0 — Version-skew advisory (read-only check before any prompt).

Before asking the user about staged/direct import, query the target environment for the solution unique name carried in the zip and compare the installed version against the zip's version. The goal is to surface "you're about to import the same version that's already installed" before the user clicks through — this is the most common silent-failure pattern for the manual export/import path, because the source-side bump is what produces an unambiguously promotable artifact.

1. Extract the zip's uniqueName + version from solution.xml inside the zip:

   unzip -p "{zipPath}" solution.xml 2>/dev/null | head -50
   

   Parse <UniqueName> and <Version> from the XML. Store as ZIP_SOLUTION_NAME and ZIP_SOLUTION_VERSION.

2. Query the target for the installed solution:

   GET {envUrl}/api/data/v9.2/solutions?$filter=uniquename eq '{ZIP_SOLUTION_NAME}'&$select=solutionid,uniquename,version,ismanaged
   

   Store the result as INSTALLED (or null if the filter returns an empty value array).

3. Compare versions via the shared helper, then branch on the result.

   Precondition — skip this entire step when INSTALLED is null. That's the first-time-install case: there's nothing on the target to compare against. Do NOT call the helper with null substituted into '{INSTALLED.version}' — it would throw "version is required" and leave the agent without a branch. Jump straight to the staged/direct prompt below and treat the import as a fresh install.

   Otherwise (INSTALLED is non-null), compare versions:

   Critical: do not compare version strings with raw > / < / === — Dataverse versions are 4-segment integer tuples (1.0.0.9 vs 1.0.0.10) and lexical comparison reports 1.0.0.10 as lower than 1.0.0.9, flipping the skew gate on the 10th deploy of the day. Use the canonical helper instead:

   node -e "console.log(require('${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/lib/bump-solution-version').compareVersions('{ZIP_SOLUTION_VERSION}', '{INSTALLED.version}'))"
   

   The helper returns -1 when ZIP < INSTALLED, 0 when equal, 1 when ZIP > INSTALLED. Same segment-wise integer rules as bumpPatchSegment (pad-with-zero, max-4-segments, reject non-integer). Capture stdout, trim, and store the integer as VERSION_CMP. If the helper throws (malformed version on either side), surface the stderr to the user and stop — the version comparison is a precondition for safe import.

   INSTALLED	VERSION_CMP	Behavior
   null	(helper not called — see precondition above)	First-time install. Continue silently to the staged/direct prompt below.
   not null	1 (zip is strictly greater)	Normal upgrade. Report: "Target has v{INSTALLED.version} installed; this zip is v{ZIP_SOLUTION_VERSION}. Importing will upgrade."
   not null	0 (zip equals installed)	Surface the warning below (same-version skew — applies to both managed and unmanaged).
   not null	-1 (zip is strictly less)	Surface the warning below (downgrade — applies to both managed and unmanaged).

   🚦 Gate (consent · import-solution:3.0.version-skew): Zip version is equal-to or lower-than the installed solution's version on the target. Importing produces unpredictable upgrade semantics; the source export-solution is supposed to bump the version on every export. Re-export with bumped version, force the import anyway, or cancel.

   Warning prompt — AskUserQuestion:

   "The target environment already has {ZIP_SOLUTION_NAME} v{INSTALLED.version} installed ({INSTALLED.ismanaged ? 'managed' : 'unmanaged'}). The zip you are about to import carries version {ZIP_SOLUTION_VERSION}.

   Importing the same or a lower version is unreliable:

   • Managed: no upgrade lineage; the platform may apply or reject the import depending on internal heuristics.
   • Unmanaged: behavior depends entirely on OverwriteUnmanagedCustomizations: true, and any in-target edits that happen to match the zip's component IDs get silently overwritten without a version change to point to.

   /power-pages:export-solution always bumps the source version before producing a zip (since 2026-05-25). If this zip was produced before that change, re-exporting will give you a clean, strictly-greater version.

   How would you like to proceed?"

   Question	Header	Options
   What to do?	Version skew	Re-export with a bumped version (Recommended — invokes /power-pages:export-solution), Import anyway (proceed at your own risk), Cancel

   • Re-export: invoke /power-pages:export-solution. After it completes, restart this skill from Phase 2 with the freshly-produced zip.
   • Import anyway: set SKEW_ACK = true and proceed to the staged/direct prompt below. Record the acknowledged skew in docs/alm/last-import.json under versionSkew: { zipVersion, installedVersion, isManaged, acknowledged: true } for the audit trail.
   • Cancel: stop the skill cleanly. No target-env writes happened in Step 3.0 — it was read-only.

4. If the comparison is the normal upgrade case (or the zip's solution isn't installed yet), continue silently — do not present a prompt, just record the version delta in the eventual docs/alm/last-import.json for the summary.

🚦 Gate (plan · import-solution:3.config): Staged vs Direct import, overwrite options. Cancel exits before any target-env mutation.

Ask user (via AskUserQuestion):

Key Decision Point: Staged vs Direct import

• Staged (Recommended for managed solutions): Runs StageSolution first to check for missing dependencies. Shows issues before committing the import. Safer — the stage step is fully reversible.
• Direct: Skips staging and imports immediately. Faster but may fail mid-import if dependencies are missing.

Also ask:

• Overwrite unmanaged customizations? (default: Yes) — needed when target has customized the same components
• Publish workflows after import? (default: Yes)

Phase 4 — Stage Solution (Conditional)

Only run this phase if the user chose staged import in Phase 3.

Refer to ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/solution-api-patterns.md Section 5a.

1. Base64-encode the zip file:

   node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/encode-solution-file.js" --zipPath "{zipPath}"
   

2. POST {envUrl}/api/data/v9.2/StageSolution with CustomizationFile: {base64}
3. Parse StageSolutionResults:
   • Extract StageSolutionUploadId (used in Phase 5 instead of re-encoding the file)
   • Check MissingDependencies array
4. If MissingDependencies is non-empty:
   • List each missing dependency with its type and name
   • Ask user: "These dependencies are missing in the target environment. Proceed anyway (may fail) or cancel to install dependencies first?"
   • If cancel: stop and advise installing missing dependencies
5. If MissingDependencies is empty: report "No missing dependencies found. Ready to import."

Phase 5 — Import Solution

Refer to ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/solution-api-patterns.md Section 5b.

1. Prepare request body (always use CustomizationFile — ImportSolutionAsync does not accept StageSolutionUploadId):

   • Encode the zip: node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/encode-solution-file.js" --zipPath "{zipPath}"
   • Use { CustomizationFile: "{base64}", OverwriteUnmanagedCustomizations: {choice}, PublishWorkflows: {choice} }

2. POST {envUrl}/api/data/v9.2/ImportSolutionAsync

3. Extract AsyncOperationId and ImportJobKey (note: field is ImportJobKey, not ImportJobId)

4. Report: "Import job started: {AsyncOperationId}. Polling for completion..."

Run scripts/poll-async-operation.js:

node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/poll-async-operation.js" \
  --asyncJobId "{AsyncOperationId}" \
  --envUrl "{envUrl}" \
  --token "{token}" \
  --intervalMs 8000 \
  --maxAttempts 75

Handle poll result:

• Succeeded: proceed to Phase 6
• Failed with AttachmentBlocked / error code -2147188706: proceed to Phase 5b below
• Failed (other): show error message, query import job for component-level errors, stop
• Timeout: inform user, advise checking admin center

Phase 5b — Resolve Attachment Restrictions (conditional)

Only run this phase if Phase 5 poll failed with AttachmentBlocked (-2147188706 or message contains AttachmentBlocked or not a valid type).

5b.1 Identify Blocked Extensions in the Solution Zip

List all files in the zip and extract unique extensions:

unzip -l "{zipPath}" | awk '{print $4}' | grep '\.' | sed 's/.*\.//' | sort -u

Get the current blocked attachments list from the environment:

pac env list-settings

Find the blockedattachments row in the output — it contains a semicolon-separated list (e.g., ade;adp;js;zip;...).

Compute the intersection: which extensions from the solution zip appear in the blocked list. These are the types that need to be unblocked.

5b.2 Explain the Issue

Tell the user:

"The solution import failed because the target environment blocks certain file types that are included in this solution. The following file extensions in the solution are currently blocked: {comma-separated list}. This is an environment-level security setting. To import this solution, these restrictions need to be temporarily relaxed."

5b.3 Ask for Permission

🚦 Gate (consent · import-solution:5b.blocked-attachments): Reactive AttachmentBlocked remediation — modify env-level blockedattachments setting (tenant-wide impact). Reversible from PPAC. Fires fresh on every skill invocation that hits the failure. When plan-alm Manual path orchestrates multi-target imports (Staging then Production), it invokes import-solution once per target — if both targets block the same extensions, the gate fires once per target (each is a separate skill invocation against a separate env). Consent for Staging does NOT cover Production.

Invoke AskUserQuestion immediately — do NOT present this as a chat message. The user must answer live before the skill proceeds.

Question	Header	Options
The solution contains file types ({list}) that are blocked by this environment's attachment security settings. Would you like to remove the block for these specific types so the solution can be imported?	Unblock Attachment Types	Yes, unblock {list} for this import (Recommended), No, do not change environment settings

If "No": Stop and tell the user: "The import cannot proceed while these file types are blocked. To unblock manually: Power Platform Admin Center → Environments → {env} → Settings → Product → Features → Blocked Attachments."

If "Yes": Proceed to 5b.4.

5b.4 Update Blocked Attachments

1. Parse the blockedattachments value (semicolon-separated)
2. Remove only the extensions identified in 5b.1 — preserve all others
3. Update the setting:

   pac env update-settings --name blockedattachments --value "{updated-list-with-types-removed}"
   

4. Confirm the update succeeded.

5b.5 Retry Import

Re-encode the zip and retry ImportSolutionAsync (repeat Phase 5 steps 1–4 and poll again).

• If Succeeded: proceed to Phase 6
• If failed again with a different error: show the new error message and stop — do not retry further

Phase 6 — Verify Import

1. Query solution to confirm it exists and version matches:

   GET {envUrl}/api/data/v9.2/solutions?$filter=uniquename eq '{solutionName}'&$select=solutionid,uniquename,version,ismanaged
   

2. Query import job for component results (use ImportJobKey from the import response):

   GET {envUrl}/api/data/v9.2/importjobs({ImportJobKey})?$select=solutionname,completedon,progress,data
   

   • Parse the data XML field for per-component results (look for result="failure" entries)
   • Count: imported successfully / warnings / failures

3. Ensure docs/alm/ exists, then write docs/alm/last-import.json marker (node -e "require('fs').mkdirSync('docs/alm',{recursive:true})"):

   {
     "importedAt": "<ISO timestamp>",
     "solutionName": "<name>",
     "version": "<version>",
     "targetEnvironment": "<envUrl>",
     "asyncOperationId": "<id>",
     "importJobId": "<ImportJobKey value>",
     "status": "<Succeeded|Failed|Partial>",
     "componentResults": { "success": N, "warning": N, "failure": N },
     "versionSkew": null
   }