Update Check — ONCE PER SESSION (mandatory for live migration runs) The first time this skill is used in a session, run the check-updates skill before proceeding.

• GitHub Copilot CLI / VS Code: invoke the check-updates skill.
• Claude Code / Cowork / Cursor / Windsurf / Codex: compare local vs remote package.json version.
• Skip if the check was already performed earlier in this session.
• Skip in eval / guidance-only mode: if the user's prompt explicitly forbids tool/API calls (e.g. "Do not call any APIs or create any resources") or the skill is being invoked for offline JSON translation / eval, do not run the update check — answer the prompt directly. The check is only required for live-migration runs that will call Fabric or Synapse APIs.

CRITICAL NOTES

1. To find workspace details (including its ID) from a workspace name: list all workspaces, then use JMESPath filtering
2. To find item details (including its ID) from workspace ID, item type, and item name: list all items of that type in that workspace, then use JMESPath filtering
3. Fabric does NOT have a "Dataset" item type — all dataset properties are inlined into activity typeProperties
4. Linked Services map to Fabric Connections — in pipeline activity JSON, referenceName on the activity's linkedService block uses the Fabric connection display name (not the connection GUID); the connection GUID is used only on Fabric REST API calls
5. Notebook activities change from SynapseNotebook to TridentNotebook and reference notebooks by GUID, not by name
6. Synapse global parameters become a Variable Library item in Fabric, referenced as @pipeline().libraryVariables.<name>. Variable Library Number types are not consumable in pipelines — Synapse Float/Double are mapped to String for runtime compatibility
7. The Validation activity type does not exist in Fabric — it must be rewritten as GetMetadata + IfCondition
8. Triggers are intentionally excluded from this skill — recreate schedules manually in Fabric after migration
9. SSIS package execution, SHIR-exclusive connectors, and Databricks activities are parked — see pipeline-gotchas.md

Synapse Pipelines → Microsoft Fabric Data Factory Migration