tools-agentbox

A ready environment for coding agents doing Power Platform and Dataverse work: the tools they need, kept current, and Claude Code and GitHub Copilot set up with the TALXIS/skills plugin. Wherever the agent runs, it gets the same tools.

Don't run coding agents directly on your own workstation. They run arbitrary commands. Give them a sandbox: About cloud and local sandboxes.

Pick your sandbox

Codespaces or any devcontainer tool. Your .devcontainer/devcontainer.json needs only the image:

{ "name": "Power Platform", "image": "ghcr.io/talxis/tools-agentbox/image:latest" }

Composing your own instead? Each tool is a Feature; add agentbox to keep them current. On Windows, use Dev Containers: Clone Repository in Container Volume rather than opening a Windows folder: Linux line endings and file modes, and much faster.

GitHub Copilot cloud agent. Add a step to your .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml:

      - name: Set up AgentBox
        run: curl -fsSL https://talxis.com/agentbox-setup | bash

Claude Code cloud environment. In an org-shared cloud environment:

• Setup script: curl -fsSL https://talxis.com/agentbox-setup | bash
• Environment variable: CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_SEED_DIR=/usr/local/claude-plugin-seed
• Network access: Custom, with the defaults, plus cli.github.com and talxis.com. With a stricter list, setup also needs ghcr.io, pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com, api.nuget.org, registry.npmjs.org, packages.microsoft.com, releases.hashicorp.com, and dot.net with builds.dotnet.microsoft.com when the machine lacks .NET 10.
• The setup script fails when a tool didn't make it, so a broken environment shows in its log.
• Optional: to update the tools as sessions start, merge the hook in session-start-hook.json into managed settings.

Keeping current

Tools that follow their latest release update on every container start. Mid-session:

agentbox prerequisite update

The agentbox CLI also checks a machine (prerequisite validate, harness validate). The contract lists what stays stable. The tools are listed in agentbox-features.json.