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diagnose-flow

This skill performs deep analysis of failed flow runs by gathering execution details, tracing action dependencies, and identifying root causes.

by MicrosoftOfficial publisherNot reviewed

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Agents
Claude Code
License
MIT (permissive)
Pin
ca144d2pinned Oct 9, 2026
Context cost
about 660 tokenswhen the skill loads
GitHub stars
978on microsoft/power-platform-skills
Scripts
None found

What it does

“Deep autonomous diagnosis of a failed flow run. Provide environment, flow, and run IDs. Use when the user asks to diagnose or deeply investigate a specific failed flow run.”
The author's description, from SKILL.md

Generated summary from the skill's own text

This skill performs deep analysis of failed flow runs by gathering execution details, tracing action dependencies, and identifying root causes. It examines run status, action traces, connection issues, and expression errors to produce a diagnosis with specific fixes. The skill uses FlowAgent MCP tools to access flow definitions and execution history.

When to use it

  • A flow run failed and you need detailed root cause analysis
  • Troubleshooting why specific actions didn't succeed in a run
  • Cascading failures where you need to identify the initial failure point
  • Understanding timeout, authorization, or expression evaluation errors in flows

When not to

  • Quick status check without deep investigation needed
  • Debugging issues in flow definition logic before running
  • Analyzing completed runs that succeeded

Install

These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.

skills CLI

npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills --skill diagnose-flow

Installs from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.

GitHub CLI 2.90 or later

gh skill install microsoft/power-platform-skills diagnose-flow@ca144d29c1665a329ab4b8e14946b2105e7622fa

Installs the commit we checked (ca144d2).

Copy by hand

Download the folder at ca144d2 and put it in .claude/skills/diagnose-flow for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/diagnose-flow for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

Skill folder on GitHub at ca144d2

Claude Code plugin

/plugin install azure-cosmos-db-assistant@claude-plugins-official

The publisher's plugin in Claude's official marketplace. It may hold more than this skill, and we have not pinned it.

Claude Code plugin

/plugin install azure@claude-plugins-official

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Claude Code plugin

/plugin install azure-sql-developer@claude-plugins-official

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Copy for your agent

A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.

Prompt

Install the agent skill "diagnose-flow" by Microsoft.

Source, pinned to commit ca144d29c1665a329ab4b8e14946b2105e7622fa:
https://github.com/microsoft/power-platform-skills/tree/ca144d29c1665a329ab4b8e14946b2105e7622fa/plugins/power-automate/skills/diagnose-flow

1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch.
2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/diagnose-flow/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/diagnose-flow/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist.
3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to.
4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them.

Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/microsoft/diagnose-flow

SKILL.md at the pin

---
name: diagnose-flow
description: Deep autonomous diagnosis of a failed flow run. Provide environment, flow, and run IDs. Use when the user asks to diagnose or deeply investigate a specific failed flow run.
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "<env-id> <flow-id> <run-id>"
context: fork
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob, Grep, mcp__flowagent__list_environments, mcp__flowagent__set_current_env, mcp__flowagent__get_current_env, mcp__flowagent__resolve_environment, mcp__flowagent__list_flows, mcp__flowagent__get_flow, mcp__flowagent__create_flow, mcp__flowagent__update_flow, mcp__flowagent__edit_flow, mcp__flowagent__copy_flow, mcp__flowagent__publish_flow, mcp__flowagent__disable_flow, mcp__flowagent__delete_flow, mcp__flowagent__run_flow, mcp__flowagent__get_run_history, mcp__flowagent__get_run_details, mcp__flowagent__get_run_actions, mcp__flowagent__get_run_action_content, mcp__flowagent__get_run_action_repetitions, mcp__flowagent__cancel_run, mcp__flowagent__cancel_all_runs, mcp__flowagent__resubmit_run, mcp__flowagent__diagnose_run, mcp__flowagent__list_connections, mcp__flowagent__list_connectors, mcp__flowagent__get_connector, mcp__flowagent__search_operations, mcp__flowagent__get_operation_details, mcp__flowagent__pick_or_create_connection, mcp__flowagent__resolve_refs, mcp__flowagent__resolve_params, mcp__flowagent__scaffold_flow, mcp__flowagent__list_templates, mcp__flowagent__validate_flow, mcp__flowagent__preflight_flow, mcp__flowagent__smoke_test, mcp__flowagent__get_expression_help, mcp__flowagent__list_desktop_flows, mcp__flowagent__list_machine_groups, mcp__flowagent__run_desktop_flow, mcp__flowagent__get_flow_context, mcp__flowagent__set_current_flow, mcp__flowagent__clear_current_flow, mcp__flowagent__invoke_operation, mcp__flowagent__get_past_trigger_inputs, mcp__flowagent__test_connection, mcp__flowagent__fix_connection, mcp__flowagent__delete_connection, mcp__flowagent__preview_update, mcp__flowagent__get_backup, mcp__flowagent__list_backups, mcp__flowagent__restore_backup, mcp__flowagent__list_trigger_emulators, mcp__flowagent__resolve_entity, mcp__flowagent__list_datasets, mcp__flowagent__list_tables, mcp__flowagent__whoami, mcp__flowagent__doctor, mcp__flowagent__reconnect, mcp__flowagent__list_accounts, mcp__flowagent__switch_account
model: opus
---

# Deep Flow Diagnostic Agent

You are an autonomous diagnostic agent. Given environment, flow, and run IDs, perform a comprehensive failure analysis.

## Input

Parse `$ARGUMENTS` for: environment ID, flow ID, run ID.

## 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). If no MCP tools are present, the plugin is not wired up — run the `setup` skill.

## Workflow

1. **Triage with `diagnose_run`**, then gather full context in parallel:
   - `diagnose_run` — classified failed/timed-out actions with a remediation each (start here)
   - `get_run_details` for overall run status
   - `get_run_actions` for the full action-level execution trace
   - `get_flow` for definition context
   - For a failed loop, `get_run_action_repetitions` on an action **inside** the loop (the container returns none) to find the failing iteration
   - Repetition results are `{ action, count, truncated, repetitions }`; `count` is the returned count, not the total. Treat `truncated: true` as incomplete evidence.
   - If payload evidence is needed, request `get_run_actions` with `includeSizes: true`, then `get_run_action_content` for one action with `which: "inputs"` or `"outputs"`. The default cap is 256000 bytes; oversized content is reported rather than dumped. Fetch only necessary payloads and omit sensitive values from the report.

2. **Build execution graph**: Map each action's `runAfter` dependencies. Identify parallel branches.

3. **Identify failed actions**: Filter for status != Succeeded. Classify each as:
   - **Root failure**: dependencies all Succeeded but this action failed
   - **Cascading skip**: skipped because a dependency failed

4. **Analyze each root failure** against common patterns:
   - Authorization/Connection errors
   - Expression evaluation failures
   - HTTP 4xx/5xx from external services
   - Timeout errors
   - Parameter validation failures (empty required fields, wrong enum values)
   - Action type mismatches (OpenApiConnection vs OpenApiConnectionWebhook)

5. **Cross-reference with definition**: Check if the action's parameters, connection references, or expressions have issues visible in the definition.

6. **Write diagnosis report** with:
   - Execution timeline
   - Root cause identification
   - Specific fix with code changes
   - Confidence level (high/medium/low)

7. **Optionally generate fixed definition**: If the fix is a definition change, apply it with `edit_flow` (surgical, one action/parameter) — fall back to `update_flow` only for large rewrites.

From microsoft/power-platform-skills at ca144d2, shown as plain text under its license: MIT (permissive). The license text is in LICENSE.

View SKILL.md on GitHub at ca144d2

Files

1 file, 5.0 KB in total. Each file has a sha256 in the pin's manifest; the first 12 characters are shown.

Skill folder on GitHub at ca144d2
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