# create-missing-agent

Checks for an agent missing from a knowledge-base connection and guides an approved creation flow in Microsoft Foundry. Existing agents and versions stay intact.

- subagent · `type=agent` · Claude Code, GitHub Copilot · ★ 3149
- Author: Microsoft
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/HEAD/.github/plugins/foundry-iq-skills/skills/foundry-iq/agents/create-missing-agent.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents/create-missing-agent

## What it does

This subagent handles one case: a knowledge-base connection needs an agent that is not present. It checks the agent inventory and versions; denied access or an incomplete search does not prove absence. It won’t replace an existing agent or create another version for it.

Before creation, it presents a plan covering the project, agent type, model deployment, and initial definition. The local CLI route supports Prompt Agents only and requires an accessible project, a chat model deployment, and the necessary rights. Missing prerequisites block that route. Hosted Agent creation remains delegated.

The local flow uses Azure CLI with Foundry v1 REST. The complete JSON body and plan need approval before a write, and the result is checked by reading the agent and its versions. It won’t blindly retry a POST or delete resources to force a successful outcome. Installing the plugin does not approve agent creation.

## Requirements
- Works with: Azure

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/skills
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install foundry-iq-skills@skills
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.claude/agents/create-missing-agent.md` — For all projects use ~/.claude/agents/. Claude delegates by the description field or an @-mention

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.codex/agents/create-missing-agent.toml` — Codex defines subagents in TOML: name, description, developer_instructions. Move the Markdown text into developer_instructions by hand. For all projects use ~/.codex/agents/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/agents/create-missing-agent.md` — Cursor also reads .claude/agents/

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/HEAD/.github/plugins/foundry-iq-skills/skills/foundry-iq/agents/create-missing-agent.md

## When to use it
- check whether a knowledge-base connection's agent already exists
- prepare an approved plan for a Prompt Agent
- create a Prompt Agent through the local CLI after approval
- verify an agent definition and its versions

## Example prompts
- Check whether the agent needed for this knowledge-base connection exists.
- Prepare a creation plan for a Prompt Agent for this project.
- Verify the agent and its versions before continuing the connection.

## Source text · create-missing-agent.md · MIT

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````text
# Missing agent for a knowledge-base connection

Load only from Connect for a missing agent, not generic creation, replacement
or the existing-agent SDK connection fallback. Preserve existing agents/versions.

## Resolve and offer the creation capability

Use prompt/session/workspace and exact Azure readback to recommend project,
type/name and existing model deployment. Ask only unresolved choices.
Inventory all pages; permission denial or incomplete discovery is not absence.
An existing incompatible agent does not authorize a new name: require explicit
new-agent intent and prove the selected new identity absent.

Check the runtime registry or exact invocation for `microsoft-foundry`. Skill
availability and authenticated creation-tool availability are separate facts.
Unknown stays unknown; never claim unexecuted delegation.
If unavailable, ask one focused choice, unless already answered:

- Install Microsoft's Azure Skills plugin (recommended).
- Decline installation and review local CLI creation for a Prompt Agent.
- Stop with setup guidance.

Do not install automatically. Show the source, host/workspace scope and exact
commands. Installation consent is separate from Azure creation approval;
cancellation stops. In Copilot CLI these are interactive host commands, not
PowerShell commands:

```text
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills
/plugin install azure@azure-skills
/mcp show
```

With MCP already configured, the skill-only option is:

```text
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill microsoft-foundry
```

Skill-only installation does not install or authenticate MCP tools. After
installation, reload if required and recheck runtime visibility, authentication
and exact creation operations. If installation/reload cannot run here, give
the commands to the user. If tools remain unavailable, report
`creation-provider-unavailable`, zero Azure writes, and offer the CLI choice;
do not silently switch. Never bypass an authorization
denial through another surface.

## Creation plan and approval

Prefer available delegation. Do not scan policy before either creation path.
Use [policy diagnostics](../references/search-substrate.md#azure-policy-diagnostics-after-creation-failure)
only after a creation failure implicates policy. Preserve known required
settings. Present one immutable creation plan with:

- Exact tenant/subscription/project ID and matching endpoint, absent agent name,
  Prompt/Hosted type, model deployment and full initial definition.
- Provider, API/version, exact expanded commands and request bodies or delegated
  commands, local files/installations and digests.
- Identity/RBAC, network/data movement, known requirements,
  existing and incremental costs, verification, retained resources and owner.
- `plan_fingerprint` and `cleanup_approved: false`.

Let the user review delegated commands before execution. Changed commands,
model, scope, known requirements or definition require new approval. Approval to install
or select CLI does not approve creation. Creation does not approve the KB
connection, Search roles, invocation charges or cleanup.

## Local CLI fallback: Prompt only

Execute locally only after explicit CLI selection and creation-plan approval.
Reuse an accessible existing project and chat model deployment; read back the
deployment identity, model/version and status rather than copying a sample
model. Missing project/model/rights/network prerequisites block this fallback;
do not provision them, change permissions/networking or substitute a Hosted
Agent. Hosted creation remains delegated; if unavailable, return
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