[External Plugin]: Microsoft Canvas Authoring Toolkit

[paulyuk]

Plugin name

canvas-authoring

Short description

Toolkit setup and Azure or counter starters for the host’s native create-canvas skill; skill-only, not a canvas extension. Includes prebuilt packages and guidance for styles, sign in, subscriptions, telemetry, and more.

GitHub repository

microsoft/azure-dev-tools

Plugin path inside the repository

plugins/canvas-authoring

Ref to review

No response

Commit SHA to review

a6d394bbaa6fb1dc0151257a85cbac0de772b138

Version

0.1.1

License identifier

MIT

Author name

Alex Weininger

Author URL

No response

Homepage URL

No response

Keywords

canvas-authoring, toolkit, skills, development, azure, scaffolding, build

Additional notes for reviewers

This is part of a wave of official Azure Canvases and related toolkit from the native Azure Cloud Foundation team (paulyuk, Bilal Alam sponsor, co-maintained by the Azure Tools team under TimBo). Coordinated with Shayne Boyer and Pierce Boggan.

Submission checklist

• The plugin lives in a public GitHub repository.
• The ref and/or sha I provided is immutable (release tag and/or full 40-character commit SHA), not a branch.
• This submission follows this repository's contribution, security, and responsible AI policies.
• This plugin is not already listed in the Awesome Copilot marketplace.

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✅ External plugin intake passed

This submission passed automated intake validation and quality checks and is ready for maintainer review.

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• Plugin: canvas-authoring

• Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-dev-tools

• SHA: a6d394bbaa6fb1dc0151257a85cbac0de772b138

Reviewer signals

These are non-blocking heuristics for maintainer review; they are not evidence of misconduct or low quality.

Signal	Result
Repository age	6 day(s)
Repository activity	repository is 6 day(s) old; 0 stars; 0 watchers; 0 forks
Repository counts	0 stars · 0 watchers · 0 forks · 1 open issues/PRs

Quality gate summary

Legend: ✅ pass · ⚠️ warning · 🛑 fail

Gate	Status
spec compliance (non-blocking)	✅ pass
vally lint	✅ pass
install smoke test	✅ pass
version match	✅ pass
ref/sha consistency	⚪ not_run
canvas structure	⚪ not_run

• spec compliance: pass
• vally lint: pass
• install smoke test: pass
• version match: pass
• ref/sha consistency: not_run
• canvas structure: not_run
• overall: pass

spec compliance output (✅ pass)

Agent Plugins v1.0.0 manifest checks passed for plugin.json.

vally lint output (✅ pass)

✅ create-canvas-app (2/2 checks passed)
    ✓ [spec-compliance] All 1 skill(s) are spec-compliant.
        ✓ spec-compliance: All spec checks passed.
    ✓ [valid-refs] All file references across 1 skill(s) are valid.
        ✓ valid-refs: All file references resolve to existing files within the skill directory.

1 skill(s) linted, 1 passed

install smoke test output (✅ pass)

Install smoke test succeeded. Verified /tmp/external-plugin-quality-GYQ81v/copilot-home/.copilot/installed-plugins/external-plugin-intake/canvas-authoring/plugin.json.

Version match output

- a6d394bbaa6fb1dc0151257a85cbac0de772b138: matched version "0.1.1" at "plugins/canvas-authoring/plugin.json".

Ref/SHA consistency output

Ref/SHA consistency gate skipped because one of source.ref or source.sha was not provided.

Canvas structure output

Canvas structure gate skipped because plugin is not tagged with "canvas".

Canonical external.json payload

{
  "name": "canvas-authoring",
  "description": "Toolkit setup and Azure or counter starters for the host’s native `create-canvas` skill; skill-only, not a canvas extension.  Includes prebuilt packages and guidance for styles, sign in, subscriptions, telemetry, and more.",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "author": {
    "name": "Alex Weininger"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/azure-dev-tools",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "canvas-authoring",
    "toolkit",
    "skills",
    "development",
    "azure",
    "scaffolding",
    "build"
  ],
  "source": {
    "source": "github",
    "repo": "microsoft/azure-dev-tools",
    "path": "plugins/canvas-authoring",
    "sha": "a6d394bbaa6fb1dc0151257a85cbac0de772b138"
  }
}