Reviews and migrates deprecated wildcard (*) values in Power Pages Web API fields site settings to least-privilege explicit Dataverse columns. Use whenever a user mentions Web API wildcard or select-all remediation, fields settings containing *, data-exposure review, wildcard deprecation readiness, or Web API failures after wildcard retirement. Applies to both traditional sites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Liquid, and downloaded YAML, and SPA sites using React, Vue, Angular, Astro, or TypeScr...
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---
name: migrate-webapi-selectall
description: >-
Reviews and migrates deprecated wildcard (*) values in Power Pages Web API
fields site settings to least-privilege explicit Dataverse columns.
Use whenever a user mentions Web API wildcard or select-all remediation,
fields settings containing *, data-exposure review, wildcard deprecation
readiness, or Web API failures after wildcard retirement. Applies to both
traditional sites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Liquid, and downloaded YAML,
and SPA sites using React, Vue, Angular, Astro, or TypeScript. The agent must
inspect every source Web API call and consumer, report exact fixes for every
wildcard, report every already-explicit configuration, apply approved edits,
and verify no wildcard remains.
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: Optional Power Pages project path
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList
model: opus
---
> **Plugin check**: Run `node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js"` — if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.
# Migrate Power Pages Web API Wildcards
Replace every deprecated `Webapi/<table>/fields = *` value with the smallest
explicit column set proven by the site's actual Web API behavior.
The LLM owns source discovery, call-chain reasoning, field decisions, report
writing, and edits. Use the bundled script only to retrieve authoritative
Dataverse table schema; it must not decide which columns the code needs.
Support both:
- traditional sites with HTML, JavaScript, Liquid, web templates, and
aggregate YAML;
- SPA sites with React, Vue, Angular, Astro, TypeScript, downloaded
deployment YAML, or mixed custom JavaScript.
**Initial request:** $ARGUMENTS
## Non-negotiable rules
1. Review every discovered source table Web API call, including shared
wrappers, dynamic builders, and response consumers.
2. Review every configuration scope and deployment-profile copy.
3. Map request `EntitySetName` values to setting logical names using table
schema. Never singularize, pluralize, or guess.
4. Treat `*` as unsupported for reads, writes, aggregates, FetchXML, files,
and images.
5. Give every wildcard an exact proposed replacement before editing anything.
6. Report every already-explicit fields setting, including missing and
potentially unnecessary columns.
7. Never apply a partial wildcard plan. Resolve all wildcards and call-site
rows first.
8. Keep reports free of absolute local paths, tokens, URLs, data values,
filter literals, request bodies, response bodies, and source snippets, and
build them only by rendering the bundled template with the bundled script.
9. Preserve unrelated YAML structure and values.
10. Verify with a fresh discovery pass, not remembered inventory.
11. Leave only the rendered report and its icon in the migration output
directory.
12. Never download or upload site content until the user has explicitly
confirmed the environment, website, site type, data model, and deployment
profile. Neither transfer can be reverted.
13. Run smoke tests only after explicit approval, and never issue POST, PATCH,
PUT, or DELETE Web API calls against a deployed site. Testing a write
destroys real record data.
Read [references/column-analysis.md](references/column-analysis.md) before
analyzing calls. Read
[references/configuration-and-reporting.md](references/configuration-and-reporting.md)
before inventorying settings or writing the report. Read
[references/site-transfer.md](references/site-transfer.md) before any download
or upload.
## Phase 1: Prepare
**Goal:** Resolve the project, confirm the site, and protect existing work.
1. Create all seven tasks from [Progress tracking](#progress-tracking).
2. Resolve `PROJECT_ROOT` from `$ARGUMENTS` or the current directory.
3. Detect site markers independently:
- `powerpages.config.json` indicates an SPA site;
- root `website.yml`, root `sitesetting.yml`, or `.powerpages-site/`
indicates downloaded declarative artifacts;
- when both appear, scan both layouts.
4. Read `.solution-manifest.json` when present. This migration changes existing
settings; do not create or select another solution.
5. Inspect git status. Never discard, hide, or include unrelated user changes.
6. Run `node --version`.
7. Confirm `assets/migration-report-template.html` and
`scripts/render-migration-report.js` are readable, and stop if either is
missing.
8. Read [references/site-transfer.md](references/site-transfer.md), then
confirm the environment, website name and `WebSiteId`, site type, data
model, deployment profile, and target path with the user. Check each
against `pac auth who`, `pac env who`, and `pac pages list`, and stop on
any mismatch. Never infer one from a folder name or an active default.
Analyzing the wrong site produces confident, wrong fixes, so settle identity
before reading any setting. Download only when the user wants a fresh copy or
`PROJECT_ROOT` holds no site content; downloading replaces local files and
cannot be reverted.
<!-- gate: migrate-webapi-selectall:1.download-site | category=consent | cancel-leaves=nothing -->
> 🚦 **Gate (consent · migrate-webapi-selectall:1.download-site):** Approve the download only after displaying the confirmed environment, website name and ID, site type, data model, target path, and the exact command. Canceling leaves local content untouched and continues against the existing copy.
Use `AskUserQuestion`: `Download the confirmed site` or `Use the local copy`.
Repeat step 3 after any download.
**Output:** Project root, site layouts, solution context, git state, confirmed
site identity, and a downloaded copy when approved.
## Phase 2: Build the complete inventory
**Goal:** Find every configuration and candidate source Web API call before
reasoning about columns.
### 2.1 Inventory configuration scopes
Use `Glob`, `Grep`, and `Read` to inspect:
- every `sitesetting.yml`;
- every `*.sitesetting.yml`;
- `.powerpages-site/site-settings/`;
- deployment-profile and environment-specific copies.
Record every `Webapi/<table>/fields` and `Webapi/<table>/enabled` entry with
its relative file, line, scope, key style, and current value. Classify fields
settings as:
- `wildcard`;
- `explicit`;
- `missing` for an enabled table;
- `duplicate` only within the same configuration scope.
Do not treat identical settings in different deployment profiles as
duplicates. Record every profile name and which settings it overrides. Never
assume the `default` profile is the intended deployment profile.
Query Dataverse once per unique table, never once per configuration.
### 2.2 Inventory source calls
Analyze only authoritative, editable source files. Never inspect compiled or
generated code.
For SPA sites:
1. Read `powerpages.config.json`, `package.json`, and present framework or
bundler configuration before searching calls.
2. Treat `compiledPath` and every configured build-output directory as a hard
exclusion.
3. Exclude `.powerpages-site/web-files/`, `node_modules/`, coverage and cache
directories, source maps, minified bundles, framework output directories,
and content-hashed assets matching
`<entry-name>-<content-hash>.<extension>`.
4. Use `.powerpages-site/site-settings/` only for configuration inventory,
never for source analysis.
5. Search editable roots such as configured source directories and framework
application directories.
For traditional sites, search editable JavaScript, Liquid, web templates, web
files, and other authored source. Do not exclude an authored traditional web
file merely because it is deployed as a web file.
Search source extensions including `.js`, `.jsx`, `.ts`, `.tsx`, `.vue`,
`.html`, `.htm`, `.liquid`, `.aspx`, `.ascx`, `.cshtml`, and XML web
templates. If a call exists only in compiled, minified, generated, or
content-hashed output, record a `missing-source` blocker and stop the
migration. Do not infer columns from that output.
Search for:
- `/_api/`, encoded variants, split URL fragments, and API base constants;
- `fetch`, Axios, `XMLHttpRequest`, jQuery AJAX, `webapi.safeAjax`,
`shell.ajaxSafePost`, and custom request wrappers;
- entity-set constants, query builders, FetchXML builders, and body builders;
- callers and consumers imported from other files.
For each source candidate, record relative path, line, method, endpoint
expression, and wrapper chain. A comment, example, or non-table endpoint still
needs an explicit disposition. Excluded build outputs are never recorded.
Write the settings inventory to
`docs/webapi-selectall-migration/migration-report.json` and render the draft
report as described in
[references/configuration-and-reporting.md](references/configuration-and-reporting.md).
Do not propose fields yet.
Stop if any in-scope source or configuration file cannot be read.
<!-- gate: migrate-webapi-selectall:2.confirm-scope | category=plan | cancel-leaves=draft-migration-report -->
> 🚦 **Gate (plan · migrate-webapi-selectall:2.confirm-scope):** Confirm the project, configuration scopes and profiles, wildcard count, explicit-setting count, and source inventory before schema retrieval. Canceling leaves only the read-only draft report.
Use `AskUserQuestion` to confirm or cancel. Expand the inventory and repeat this
phase if the user identifies another source or deployment scope.
## Phase 3: Retrieve schema and resolve columns
**Goal:** Use authoritative names while letting the LLM determine actual usage.
### 3.1 Retrieve only relevant table schema
Build the initial unique list containing:
- logical table names from all Web API settings;
- entity-set names from all candidate table calls;
- entity-set names directly present in bind targets or related-table calls.
Do not treat a navigation-property name as a table identifier. Its target
logical name is authoritative only after relationship metadata resolves it.
Resolve the environment URL from confirmed project context or `pac env who`.
If unavailable, ask for the URL as data gathering; never ask for or accept an
access token.
<!-- not-a-gate: environment URL supplies read-only metadata query input only -->
Write every deduplicated identifier, one per line, to
`docs/webapi-selectall-migration/table-identifiers.txt`. Run:
```bash
node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/migrate-webapi-selectall/scripts/query-table-schema.js" --project-root "<PROJECT_ROOT>" --environment-url "<ENVIRONMENT_URL>" --tables-file "<PROJECT_ROOT>/docs/webapi-selectall-migration/table-identifiers.txt" --output "<PROJECT_ROOT>/docs/webapi-selectall-migration/table-schema.json"
```
If an identifier does not resolve, trace the code or obtain the correct
contract; do not guess.
After the initial snapshot:
1. Match every used `$expand` navigation property against its source table's
returned relationship metadata.
2. Collect only target logical names absent from all existing snapshots.
3. Write those names to
`table-identifiers-pass-<N>.txt` and query them to
`table-schema.pass-<N>.json`.
4. Repeat for nested expansion paths until every used navigation segment is
resolved.
Treat `table-schema.json` and all numbered snapshots as one schema package.
Never requery a logical table already present in that package, and never
launch concurrent schema queries.
Identifier lists and schema snapshots are working files. Keep them until
verification finishes, then delete them in Phase 7.
### 3.2 Analyze every call and consumer
For every source inventory row:
1. Read the complete enclosing function or template block.
2. Trace imported wrappers, URL variables, query builders, body builders,
response mappers, types, components, templates, and every caller.
3. Follow conditional branches, spreads, dynamic arrays, and runtime
configuration.
4. Map the entity set to its logical table using the schema package.
5. Apply every rule in
[references/column-analysis.md](references/column-analysis.md).
6. Record requirements per owning logical table, not merely per request.
7. Classify the row as `mapped`, `non-table`, or `not-a-call`.
8. Leave the row unresolved if any runtime branch or consumer remains unknown.
One logical table is normally reached from several places. Collect every call
site for a table before proposing its fields: duplicated or competing
wrappers, per-page scripts, different query shapes, and repeated calls in the
same file. A later call site for an already-analyzed table can still add
columns, so never stop at the first one.
For normal record GETs without `$select`, derive output fields from every
consumer and propose a source edit adding the smallest explicit projection.
Filters, ordering, and other query fields still belong in the fields setting,
even when they should not be added to the output projection.
Keep the response projection and fields-setting allowlist as separate sets.
Never add a filter-only, order-only, grouping-only, or write-only column to an
existing `$select` unless a response consumer also reads it.
### 3.3 Build configuration proposals
For each wildcard setting:
1. Union the proven requirements from every call site that reaches that
logical table within the applicable site behavior.
2. Validate each proposed name against the schema package.
3. Link every proposed column to source path and line or a user-confirmed
external contract.
4. Produce the exact replacement:
```text
Webapi/<table>/fields = <column-name-1>,<column-name-2>,<column-name-3>
```
5. Keep the proposal unresolved if it is empty or any evidence is incomplete.
For each already-explicit setting:
- compare configured columns with proven required columns;
- classify it as exact, missing required columns, potentially overbroad, or
externally justified;
- include an exact proposed fix for every gap;
- do not silently change it.
Update the report. Resolve all wildcard and call-site rows before continuing.
**Output:** Evidence-complete report with exact wildcard replacements and all
already-explicit configurations.
## Phase 4: Review the complete plan
**Goal:** Present the full exposure reduction before edits.
Show:
- wildcard issues found and the exact replacement for each;
- evidence for every proposed column;
- source GETs requiring `$select`;
- already-explicit settings and any missing or excess columns;
- any missing or duplicate settings found during inventory;
- zero unresolved call sites.
<!-- gate: migrate-webapi-selectall:4.apply-plan | category=consent | cancel-leaves=reviewed-migration-report -->
> 🚦 **Gate (consent · migrate-webapi-selectall:4.apply-plan):** Approve all wildcard replacements, required source projections, optional explicit-setting hardening, and local edits. Canceling preserves only the report.
Use `AskUserQuestion` with:
- `Apply all wildcard fixes and approved explicit fixes`;
- `Apply all wildcard fixes only`;
- `Cancel`.
Never offer a subset of wildcard fixes.
## Phase 5: Apply approved edits
**Goal:** Update source projections and every wildcard setting.
1. Use `Edit` to add approved `$select` projections. Preserve methods, filters,
ordering, expansion, pagination, encoding, Liquid expressions, and error
handling.
2. Use `Edit` to replace every wildcard value in every scope and profile.
Preserve identifiers, key names, quoting, indentation, comments, and
unrelated values.
3. Apply already-explicit changes only when included in the selected approval.
4. Re-read every changed block immediately and update report status.
If any edit fails or a file changed since review, stop. Do not continue with a
partial configuration set and do not perform a broad rollback over user work.
**Output:** All approved local edits and updated report.
## Phase 6: Verify independently
**Goal:** Prove the migration without trusting prior notes.
1. Repeat Phase 2 discovery from scratch.
2. Confirm every configuration scope contains zero
`Webapi/<table>/fields` wildcard values.
3. Compare each migrated value with its approved exact replacement.
4. Reopen every call site and replay the coverage analysis:
- mapped table and method remain correct;
- required setting columns are present;
- normal record GETs use explicit `$select`;
- expanded, lookup, write, FetchXML, file, and image columns remain covered.
5. Run the existing project build for SPA sites. For traditional sites,
inspect edited JavaScript and Liquid syntax and use existing site tests when
available.
6. Finalize the report status and every entry status, then delete the previous
`migration-report.html` and re-render it from the updated data file.
Do not claim full hardening while explicit configuration gaps remain. Use the
partial status defined in the reporting contract when applicable.
**Output:** Final report and verified local migration.
## Phase 7: Deploy and summarize
**Goal:** Publish only verified changes.
Re-confirm every identity detail in
[references/site-transfer.md](references/site-transfer.md) with the user
immediately before uploading, and display the exact command. Select the
deployment profile the user reviewed, and use `default` only when they name
it. Any change of environment, website, data model, or profile requires a
separate deployment approval.
<!-- gate: migrate-webapi-selectall:7.deploy | category=final | cancel-leaves=local-migration -->
> 🚦 **Gate (final · migrate-webapi-selectall:7.deploy):** Approve the verified migration for the displayed environment, website, site type, data model, and deployment profile. Canceling preserves local edits and the final report without changing the live site.
Use `AskUserQuestion`: `Deploy now` or `Keep local only`.
- Re-run `pac auth who` and `pac env who`, and stop on any mismatch.
`pac pages upload-code-site` accepts no `--environment` and targets whatever
the active authentication profile reports.
- For SPA sites, confirm `.powerpages-site` contains the approved
configuration edits, run the existing production build, then run
`pac pages upload-code-site --rootPath "<PROJECT_ROOT>" --siteName
"<SITE_NAME>"`.
- For traditional sites, run `pac pages upload --path "<PROJECT_ROOT>"
--environment "<ENVIRONMENT>" --modelVersion "<Standard|Enhanced>"
--deploymentProfile "<PROFILE>"`.
Never substitute one upload command for the other. Each corrupts the other
site type, and the damage cannot be reverted.
After deployment, list the read paths a smoke test would exercise: GET calls,
`$select` projections, `$expand`, FetchXML, and aggregates. Never run one
unprompted.
<!-- gate: migrate-webapi-selectall:7.smoke-test | category=progress | cancel-leaves=deployed-migration-unverified -->
> 🚦 **Gate (progress · migrate-webapi-selectall:7.smoke-test):** Approve the listed read-path smoke test against the deployed site. Canceling skips it and reports the deployed migration as unverified.
Use `AskUserQuestion`: `Run the read-path smoke test` or `Skip verification`.
Never issue write, file, or image requests. Ask the user to exercise those
paths themselves against disposable records.
Treat HTTP 403 responses as evidence to investigate and never restore `*`. Do
not add a column under the prior approval. Return to Phase 3, update the exact
plan and report, repeat the Phase 4 approval, independently verify in Phase 6,
and obtain a new Phase 7 deployment approval.
Delete every working file created during the migration, keeping only
`docs/webapi-selectall-migration/migration-report.html` and the
`power-pages-icon.png` the renderer places beside it:
- `table-identifiers.txt` and `table-identifiers-pass-<N>.txt`;
- `table-schema.json` and `table-schema.pass-<N>.json`;
- `migration-report.json`.
Delete only files this migration created, and confirm the directory holds the
report and its icon alone. Skip cleanup while returning to an earlier phase,
and delete the regenerated files once that pass finishes.
Record usage by following
`${PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/skill-tracking-reference.md` with
`--skillName "MigrateWebapiSelectall"`.
Summarize wildcard counts, explicit reviews, source edits, report path,
verification, deployment, and every path left unverified.
## Progress tracking
Create these tasks before Phase 1:
| Task subject | activeForm | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Prepare migration project | Preparing migration project | Confirm the site, then resolve layouts and git state |
| Inventory Web API usage | Inventorying Web API usage | Find every configuration and source call |
| Resolve actual columns | Resolving actual columns | Retrieve schema and trace every consumer |
| Review migration plan | Reviewing migration plan | Present exact fixes and evidence |
| Apply approved migration | Applying approved migration | Edit projections and configurations |
| Verify migration results | Verifying migration results | Repeat discovery, build, and finalize report |
| Deploy and summarize | Deploying and summarizing | Publish after approval and report outcome |
Mark each task `in_progress` when starting and `completed` when finished.
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