microsoft/add-workiq

📋 Shared Instructions: shared-instructions.md - Cross-cutting concerns.

Add Work IQ (M365 Copilot Search)

Work IQ is accessed through the dedicated Work IQ Copilot MCP connector (shared_a365copilotchatmcp; shown as "Work IQ Copilot MCP (Preview)" in the maker portal). It exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint whose CopilotChat tool performs AI-powered, knowledge-grounded search and conversation over Microsoft 365 content.

This is the purpose-built Work IQ connector and generates a WorkIQCopilotMCPService with a single mcp_m365copilot operation. Every command and code reference in this skill is specific to shared_a365copilotchatmcp (connection commands, and the generated WorkIQCopilotMCPService / WorkIQCopilotMCPModel files). Do not run this skill for a different connector. If you instead need the broader shared_a365mcpservers "Microsoft 365 MCP Servers" bundle (Mail/Teams/SharePoint MCP servers), add it via /add-connector — its generated service is MicrosoftMCPServersService, so you must adjust the Step 2 commands and the wrapper imports accordingly.

⚠️ Work IQ uses MCP. A JSON-RPC initialize handshake runs before the first tools/call. This connector's server (Microsoft.MCPPlatform.WebApi) is stateless-tolerant — do NOT send an Mcp-Session-Id on initialize (the server treats it as a session lookup and returns -32001 Session not found). Drive the connector through the McpSession wrapper below, which runs the handshake, sends no session id by default, sequences JSON-RPC ids, auto-retries on Session not found, and parses the nested response for you.

Workflow

1. Check Memory Bank → 2. Add Connector → 3. Inspect Generated Service → 4. Create McpSession Wrapper → 5. Use Work IQ → 6. Build → 7. Update Memory Bank

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Step 1: Check Memory Bank

Check for memory-bank.md per shared-instructions.md.

Step 2: Add Connector

The Power Apps code-app CLI (@microsoft/power-apps-cli, invoked as npx power-apps) creates the connection and generates the typed service itself. Make sure the CLI is installed (npm install) and you are signed in (npx power-apps auth-status; it shares the same auth as the rest of the code-app skills).

Find or Create the Connection

Check for an existing connection first:

npx power-apps list-connections

Look for a Work IQ Copilot MCP (Preview) connection (api id shared_a365copilotchatmcp) in the output. If one is listed, note its Connection ID and skip to "Add the Data Source" below.

Otherwise create one with the native create-connection verb:

npx power-apps create-connection --api-id shared_a365copilotchatmcp

• The environment is read automatically from the app's power.config.json — you do not need to pass an environment id.
• This connector requires OAuth, so the CLI opens a browser to complete sign-in/consent (SSO-only connectors complete silently with no browser).
• On success it prints the Connection ID — save it for the next step.

STOP HERE — interactive sign-in required:

1. Tell the user the browser has opened (or share the URL the CLI prints).
2. Ask them to sign in with their Microsoft 365 account and grant consent to the Work IQ Copilot MCP connector.
3. Wait for the user to confirm the browser shows success before continuing.

If create-connection fails:

• "not signed in" / auth error → run npx power-apps auth-status (sign in if needed) and retry.
• "Connection creation was cancelled." → the browser flow was closed early; re-run and complete it.
• Any other non-zero exit → report the exact error and STOP.

As a fallback, the user can create the connection manually in the maker portal: https://make.powerapps.com/environments/<environment-id>/connections → + New connection → search for "Work IQ Copilot MCP" → Create, then re-run list-connections.

Add the Data Source

Once the connection exists, add it to the code app (this is what generates the typed service + model):

npx power-apps add-data-source -a shared_a365copilotchatmcp -c <connection-id>

This is a non-tabular connector — only -a (api id) and -c (connection id) are needed.

Step 3: Inspect Generated Service

After adding the connector, confirm the generated service is present. This is a small, single-operation service, so you can read it directly or grep it:

Grep pattern="async \w+" path="src/generated/services/WorkIQCopilotMCPService.ts"

The WorkIQCopilotMCPService exposes exactly one operation — mcp_m365copilot ("Work IQ Copilot (Preview)"), plus a Getmcp_m365copilot GET variant used only for connection verification. Work IQ / CopilotChat is driven through mcp_m365copilot.

Its generated signature is:

public static async mcp_m365copilot(
  Mcp_Session_Id?: string,
  queryRequest?: QueryRequest
): Promise<IOperationResult<void>>

• First argument is the MCP session id (the connector's Mcp-Session-Id parameter). Leave it undefined — this server assigns/needs no client session id, and sending one on initialize returns -32001 (see below).
• Second argument is the JSON-RPC body, typed as QueryRequest ({ jsonrpc?, id?, method?, params?, result?, error? }) — exported from src/generated/models/WorkIQCopilotMCPModel.ts.
• Return type is IOperationResult<void>; the actual JSON-RPC / SSE body arrives in result.data at runtime.

Facts you can rely on (do not try to discover them at runtime):

• The tool name is CopilotChat (case-sensitive). Do not substitute query, search, or find.
• The argument key is message — not query, prompt, or question.
• Do NOT send an Mcp-Session-Id on the initialize handshake. This connector's server treats an incoming id as an existing-session lookup and returns -32001 Session not found. The server is stateless-tolerant: initialize and tools/call both succeed with no session id, so the McpSession wrapper below tracks none by default.

Session-id handling (verified during testing). This connector's MCP server is stateless-tolerant. initialize with no Mcp-Session-Id returns 200 with server capabilities, and a subsequent tools/call with no id returns the Copilot reply — no session id needs to be tracked or echoed. Do not generate a client id and send it on initialize: the server treats it as a lookup and returns 404 / -32001 Session not found (this was a real bug in an earlier version of this wrapper). Note that the code-apps data layer's IOperationResult<TResponse> exposes only { success, data, error, skipToken, count, fileName } — it does not surface response headers — so if a future MCP server returns a session id only in the Mcp-Session-Id response header, it would be unreadable here. The wrapper still defensively adopts a server id if one ever appears inside result.data.

Step 4: Create McpSession Wrapper

⚠️ CRITICAL: MCP session handling and response parsing are intricate. Copy the production-ready McpSession class below exactly. It runs the initialize handshake (sending no session id), sequences JSON-RPC ids, auto-retries on "Session not found", persists the conversation id, and parses the deeply nested response.

Create src/connectors/mcpClient.ts:

// src/connectors/mcpClient.ts
import type { IOperationResult } from '@microsoft/power-apps/data'
import { WorkIQCopilotMCPService } from '../generated/services/WorkIQCopilotMCPService'
import type { QueryRequest } from '../generated/models/WorkIQCopilotMCPModel'

export interface JsonRpcRequest {
  jsonrpc: '2.0'
  id?: string
  method: string
  params?: Record<string, unknown>
}

export interface JsonRpcResponse {
  jsonrpc?: string
  id?: string
  result?: Record<string, unknown>
  error?: { code?: number; message?: string; data?: unknown }
}

type CopilotConversationMessage = {
  text?: string
  attributions?: Array<{
    attributionType?: string
    providerDisplayName?: string
    seeMoreWebUrl?: string
  }>
}

type CopilotConversation = {
  messages?: CopilotConversationMessage[]
}

function parseRpc(result: IOperationResult<unknown>): JsonRpcResponse {
  if (!result.success && result.error) {
    return { error: { message: result.error.message } }
  }

  const data: unknown = result.data
  if (data == null) return {}
  if (typeof data === 'object') return data as JsonRpcResponse
  if (typeof data === 'string') {
    // Handle SSE framing: "event: message\ndata: {JSON}"
    const dataLines = data
      .split(/\r?\n/)
      .filter((line) => line.startsWith('data:'))
      .map((line) => line.slice(5).trim())
    // Per the SSE spec, multiple `data:` lines are joined with newlines — a single
    // JSON object can be split across lines, so joining with '' would corrupt it.
    const payload = dataLines.length ? dataLines.join('\n') : data
    try {
      return JSON.parse(payload) as JsonRpcResponse
    } catch {
      return { result: { raw: data } }
    }
  }

  return { result: { raw: data } }
}

export class McpSession {
  private nextId = 1
  // MCP Streamable HTTP: the client must NOT send a session id on `initialize` —
  // the server assigns one. Sending a client-generated id makes this connector's
  // server return `404 / -32001 Session not found`. This server is stateless-
  // tolerant, so we send no id at all; `extractSessionId` still adopts a server
  // id if one ever surfaces in the response body.
  private sessionId: string | undefined = undefined
  private conversationId: string | undefined
  private initialized = false

  private extractSessionId(raw: IOperationResult<unknown>): string | undefined {
    const container = raw as unknown as Record<string, unknown>
    const dataObj =
      raw.data && typeof raw.data === 'object'
        ? (raw.data as Record<string, unknown>)
        : undefined
    const resultObj =
      dataObj?.result && typeof dataObj.result === 'object'
        ? (dataObj.result as Record<string, unknown>)
        : undefined

    const candidates: Array<unknown> = [
      dataObj?.['Mcp-Session-Id'],
      dataObj?.mcpSessionId,
      dataObj?.sessionId,
      resultObj?.['Mcp-Session-Id'],
      resultObj?.mcpSessionId,
      resultObj?.sessionId,
      container['Mcp-Session-Id'],
      container.mcpSessionId,
      container.sessionId,
    ]

    const found = candidates.find((value) => typeof value === 'string' && value.length > 0)
    return typeof found === 'string' ? found : undefined
  }

  private isSessionNotFound(res: JsonRpcResponse): boolean {
    const message = (res.error?.message ?? '').toLowerCase()
    return message.includes('session not found') || res.error?.code === -32001
  }

  private resetSession(): void {
    // Drop any session id and re-handshake from scratch (no id on `initialize`).
    this.sessionId = undefined
    this.initialized = false
  }

  private async send(
    method: string,
    params?: Record<string, unknown>,
    allowRetry = true
  ): Promise<JsonRpcResponse> {
    const req: JsonRpcRequest = { jsonrpc: '2.0', id: String(this.nextId++), method, params }

    // Send no session id on `initialize` (server treats any id as existing-session lookup).
    const sessionId = method === 'initialize' ? undefined : this.sessionId
    const raw = (await WorkIQCopilotMCPService.mcp_m365copilot(
      sessionId,
      req as unknown as QueryRequest
    )) as unknown as IOperationResult<unknown>

    const negotiatedSessionId = this.extractSessionId(raw)
    if (negotiatedSessionId) {
      this.sessionId = negotiatedSessionId
    }

    const parsed = parseRpc(raw)

    if (allowRetry && method !== 'initialize' && this.isSessionNotFound(parsed)) {
      this.resetSession()
      await this.initialize()
      return this.send(method, params, false)
    }

    return parsed
  }

  async initialize(): Promise<JsonRpcResponse> {
    const res = await this.send('initialize', {
      protocolVersion: '2025-06-18',
      capabilities: {},
      clientInfo: { name: 'Power Apps Code App', version: '1.0.0' },
    })
    // Fail fast: surface a failed handshake instead of continuing to `tools/call`.
    if (res.error) {
      throw new Error(`MCP initialize failed: ${res.error.message ?? JSON.stringify(res.error)}`)
    }
    this.initialized = true
    return res
  }

  /** Discover the available MCP tools (optional; the tool name is fixed as `CopilotChat`). */
  async listTools(): Promise<JsonRpcResponse> {
    if (!this.initialized) await this.initialize()
    return this.send('tools/list', {})
  }

  async callCopilotChat(message: string): Promise<{ text: string; conversationId?: string }> {
    if (!this.initialized) await this.initialize()
    const raw = await this.send('tools/call', {
      name: 'CopilotChat',
      arguments: {
        message,
        ...(this.conversationId ? { conversationId: this.conversationId } : {}),
      },
    })

    // Surface MCP/connector errors as thrown exceptions so callers can `try/catch`
    // instead of string-matching the returned text.
    if (raw.error) {
      throw new Error(raw.error.message ?? JSON.stringify(raw.error))
    }

    const parsed = extractCopilotText(raw)
    if (parsed.conversationId) {
      this.conversationId = parsed.conversationId
    }

    return { text: parsed.text, conversationId: parsed.conversationId }
  }
}

function extractContentText(res: JsonRpcResponse): string | undefined {
  const content = res.result?.content as Array<{ type?: string; text?: string }> | undefined
  if (!Array.isArray(content)) {
    return undefined
  }

  const textBlocks = content
    .filter((c) => c.type === 'text' && typeof c.text === 'string')
    .map((c) => c.text!.trim())
    .filter((value) => value.length > 0)

  if (textBlocks.length === 0) {
    return undefined
  }

  // Prefer the JSON payload block. Some responses append metadata text blocks
  // such as "CorrelationId: ..." that should not be concatenated.
  const jsonBlock = textBlocks.find(
    (block) => block.startsWith('{') && /"conversationId"|"rawResponse"|"reply"/.test(block)
  )
  if (jsonBlock) {
    return jsonBlock
  }

  const nonMetadata = textBlocks.find((block) => !/^CorrelationId\s*:/i.test(block))
  return nonMetadata ?? textBlocks[0]
}

export function extractCopilotText(res: JsonRpcResponse): {
  text: string
  conversationId?: string
} {
  const rawText = extractContentText(res)
  if (!rawText) {
    return { text: res.result ? JSON.stringify(res.result, null, 2) : '(no content returned)' }
  }

  try {
    const inner = JSON.parse(rawText) as {
      conversationId?: string
      reply?: string
      message?: string
      rawResponse?: string
    }

    if (typeof inner.rawResponse === 'string') {
      try {
        const convo = JSON.parse(inner.rawResponse) as CopilotConversation
        const messages = Array.isArray(convo.messages) ? convo.messages : []
        // messages[0] echoes the user query; the AI reply is the one carrying
        // attributions (citations). Fall back to index 1, then the last message.
        const attributed = messages.find(
          (m) => Array.isArray(m.attributions) && m.attributions.length > 0
        )
        const selected = attributed ?? messages[1] ?? messages[messages.length - 1]
        const replyText = selected?.text?.trim()
        if (replyText) {
          return { text: replyText, conversationId: inner.conversationId }
        }
      } catch {
        // Fall through to simple reply extraction.
      }
    }

    const fallbackText = inner.reply?.trim() || inner.message?.trim() || rawText
    return { text: fallbackText, conversationId: inner.conversationId }
  } catch {
    return { text: rawText }
  }
}

Session-id note (verified during testing). McpSession starts with no session id and sends none on the initialize handshake. Testing against shared_a365copilotchatmcp (server Microsoft.MCPPlatform.WebApi) confirmed it is stateless-tolerant: initialize with no id returns 200 + capabilities, and tools/call with no id returns the Copilot reply. Sending a client-generated id on initialize instead makes the server return 404 / -32001 Session not found — that was the original bug. IOperationResult exposes only { success, data, error, skipToken, count, fileName } (no response headers), so a header-only session id would be unreadable here; extractSessionId still adopts a server id if one ever appears inside result.data, and the handshake auto-retries on Session not found for resilience.

If you ever bind a different MCP connector that is genuinely stateful and returns its session id only in the Mcp-Session-Id response header, this SDK cannot read it — capture one raw mcp_m365copilot result in the debugger to confirm where the id surfaces, and if it appears inside result.data, add that path to extractSessionId.

Step 5: Use Work IQ

Initialize once per app (e.g., in a React useEffect on boot or a module singleton) and reuse for all Work IQ calls:

import { McpSession } from './connectors/mcpClient'

// Initialize once per app session and reuse across calls.
const workIqSession = new McpSession()

export async function queryWorkIQ(userPrompt: string): Promise<string> {
  try {
    const { text } = await workIqSession.callCopilotChat(userPrompt)
    return text
  } catch (error) {
    const msg = error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'Work IQ query failed'
    console.error('Work IQ Error:', msg)
    throw error
  }
}

Key patterns:

• ✅ Initialize once, reuse across multiple calls (never new McpSession() per request)
• ✅ Pass context-specific prompts to callCopilotChat()
• ✅ The session auto-reinitializes if a "Session not found" error occurs
• ✅ conversationId is automatically persisted across calls for multi-turn chats

Prompt Structure

Work IQ responds well to context-rich, structured prompts. Adapt this pattern for your scenario:

const prompt = `
You are [role/expert description].

**Context:**
- [Relevant data or background information]
- [Additional context as needed]

**Task:** [Clear, specific instruction]

**Format:**
- Use markdown with clear section headings (## Summary, ## Action Items, etc.)
- Specify limits (word count, number of items, etc.)
`.trim()

const { text } = await workIqSession.callCopilotChat(prompt)

Adaptable scenarios: meeting summaries with action items, prioritized daily action items from email, project risk analysis from documents, team performance insights, or any knowledge-grounded analysis over M365 data.

Response Parsing

callCopilotChat() already unwraps the nested JSON-RPC / SSE response and returns clean text. Parse that text according to the format you requested.

For structured markdown output (when you asked for ## sections):

function extractSection(text: string, sectionName: string): string[] {
  const regex = new RegExp(`##\\s*${sectionName}\\s*([\\s\\S]*?)(?=##|$)`)
  const match = text.match(regex)
  if (!match) return []

  return match[1]
    .split('\n')
    .filter((line) => line.trim().startsWith('-'))
    .map((line) => line.replace(/^-\s*/, '').trim())
    .filter(Boolean)
}

const { text } = await workIqSession.callCopilotChat(prompt)
const summary = extractSection(text, 'Summary')
const actionItems = extractSection(text, 'Action Items')

For unstructured output — use text directly (display as-is or format for your UI).

Why the McpSession Pattern Is Required

Work IQ uses MCP (Model Context Protocol). Driving it correctly requires:

1. Session initialization before the first call (handshake to exchange capabilities)
2. Session handling — this connector is stateless-tolerant, so the wrapper sends no session id (sending one on initialize triggers -32001 Session not found); it defensively adopts a server id only if one ever surfaces in the response body (see the session-id note above)
3. JSON-RPC id sequencing (each request needs a unique incrementing id)
4. Multi-turn conversation support via conversation-id persistence
5. Nested response parsing (JSON-RPC → text content → inner JSON → Graph conversation)
6. Automatic recovery on session timeouts (-32001 / "Session not found")

McpSession handles all of this. Bypassing it (ad-hoc per-call ids or direct calls without the handshake) leads to "Session not found" errors and failed integrations.

Step 6: Build

npm run build

Fix TypeScript errors before proceeding. Do NOT deploy yet.

Step 7: Update Memory Bank

Update memory-bank.md with: connector added (shared_a365copilotchatmcp), McpSession wrapper created at src/connectors/mcpClient.ts, Work IQ usage wired up, build status.

IMPORTANT — Do NOT save sensitive information:

• ❌ OAuth URLs or consent links
• ❌ Connection IDs
• ❌ Session IDs or tokens
• ❌ Environment IDs
• ❌ Any authentication credentials

Only save high-level progress like "Work IQ Copilot MCP connector configured" or "Work IQ CopilotChat integration implemented via McpSession".