add-channel

Add an MCS Agent Channel

Add requested channels in local settings.mcs.yml only. This is not msagent deployment channel, which manages CodeAgent channels, not MCS channels. Only Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot are supported for this harness.

Initial request: $ARGUMENTS

1. Resolve the workspace and request

Use the supplied authored workspace, or discover **/settings.mcs.yml in the current project. If multiple workspaces match, ask which to use. If no workspace matches, direct the user to clone-agent or create-agent and stop; never clone or scaffold implicitly. The authored child workspace, not the MSAGENT registration root, holds the settings.

Read the selected settings. Verify it is a CLI-authored MCS agent using the GitHub harness: a versioned cliagent- template plus configuration.authoringModel: CliCopilot or configuration.recognizer.kind: CLICopilotRecognizer. If the harness is unknown, ask for clarification before editing; if another harness is identified, stop rather than apply this schema.

Resolve Teams, Copilot, or both from the request. Ask if the channel is missing or ambiguous. Reject unsupported requested channels before any edit. Do not partially implement a mixed supported/unsupported request; explain the limitation and ask for a supported selection. Never infer that every available channel should be added.

2. Load the contract and edit

Read the channel schema and merge rules completely before writing. Resolve the reference from this skill's own directory. If it cannot be read, stop and report the missing path.

Follow its validation and additive merge rules. Preserve existing settings and channel metadata; adding an already-configured channel is a no-op, not permission to normalize or replace it. Do not create a channel component, manifest, topic, or trigger file.

3. Verify and report

Re-read and parse the resulting YAML with an available local YAML parser, and review the diff. Verify that each requested channel appears exactly once with the canonical fields, all unrelated content is preserved, and only the selected settings.mcs.yml changed. Report validation failures explicitly; do not claim success if validation cannot be completed.

Report the settings path, channels added versus already present, and that changes remain local. Do not claim the agent is published, installed, accessible in Teams/Copilot, or runtime-tested from local channel entries alone.

Never pull, deploy, publish, retarget connections, or run cloud channel commands as part of this skill. Leave .config/, .mcs/, and agent.sync.yaml untouched. If upload or publication is requested, hand off separately to deploy-agent or publish-agent with exact deployment selection and that workflow's consent requirements; do not treat adding a channel as publication consent.