Configure the Canvas Authoring MCP Server

This skill configures the Canvas Authoring MCP server for the user's current Power Apps coauthoring session. The MCP server is auto-registered by the plugin — this skill connects it to a specific app session.

Instructions

1. Ask for the studio URL

Ask the user:

What is the URL of your canvas app studio session?

Copy the URL from the browser address bar while your app is open in Power Apps Designer (it should look like https://make.powerapps.com/e/Default-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/canvas/?action=edit&app-id=...).

Make sure coauthoring is enabled in the app (Settings → Updates → Coauthoring).

Keep this browser tab open for the entire session. The MCP server communicates with Power Apps through the coauthoring session tied to that tab. Closing the tab ends the coauthoring session, which prevents compile_canvas and sync_canvas from working and means you can't see or save generated changes.

2. Extract parameters from the URL