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Design Authority

Use it in Copilot Cowork: download the Design Authority plugin for Copilot Cowork and upload it in Cowork under Customize > Plugins > Upload plugin. How to install.

Reviewer-class: design review, customisation challenge, standards conformance and change impact assessment. Blocking findings are not overruled by the department under review.

Layer Reviewer (reviewer-class)

Lead role modelled Lead Architect

Subject lead Both

Agent charter .claude/agents/design-authority.md

Install

Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add SimonFoote-greensparx/d365forge
/plugin install design-authority@d365forge

ChatGPT and Codex: add this repository as a plugin marketplace, or copy this folder into .agents/skills/ in your project.

Reviewer-class

This department also reviews what other departments build. It holds no write surface in that capacity, and its blocking findings are not overruled by the department under review. Disagreement escalates to the executive sponsor or steering committee.

Skills

Skill What it covers Status

design-authority:change-impact-assessment Assesses proposed changes to a signed-off Dynamics 365 CE design for impact on data model, automation, security, integrations, migration, testing, training, cost and timeline, recording findings as blocking or advisory. Use when a change request arrives after design sign-off, during UAT or cutover, or after go-live. reviewed

design-authority:customisation-challenge Challenges proposed customisations of Dynamics 365 CE by walking them down the gap resolution hierarchy (adopt standard, configure, low-code, pro-code, ISV) and testing supportability over time. Use when a team proposes custom code, a new custom table, a PCF control, an ISV product or any departure from standard behaviour. reviewed

design-authority:design-review Reviews Dynamics 365 CE solution designs against the approved blueprint, architecture principles and project standards, and records each finding as blocking or advisory. Use when a workstream submits a design for approval at a gate or before build, or when a design appears to depart from the blueprint or clash with another workstream. reviewed

design-authority:standards-conformance Checks built Dynamics 365 CE components against project standards for naming, publisher prefix, solution layering, security and ALM, and reports each nonconformity as blocking or advisory. Use when reviewing solutions before deployment, auditing an environment for drift, onboarding a new partner, or gathering release evidence. reviewed

Skill	What it covers	Status
`design-authority:change-impact-assessment`	Assesses proposed changes to a signed-off Dynamics 365 CE design for impact on data model, automation, security, integrations, migration, testing, training, cost and timeline, recording findings as blocking or advisory. Use when a change request arrives after design sign-off, during UAT or cutover, or after go-live.	reviewed
`design-authority:customisation-challenge`	Challenges proposed customisations of Dynamics 365 CE by walking them down the gap resolution hierarchy (adopt standard, configure, low-code, pro-code, ISV) and testing supportability over time. Use when a team proposes custom code, a new custom table, a PCF control, an ISV product or any departure from standard behaviour.	reviewed
`design-authority:design-review`	Reviews Dynamics 365 CE solution designs against the approved blueprint, architecture principles and project standards, and records each finding as blocking or advisory. Use when a workstream submits a design for approval at a gate or before build, or when a design appears to depart from the blueprint or clash with another workstream.	reviewed
`design-authority:standards-conformance`	Checks built Dynamics 365 CE components against project standards for naming, publisher prefix, solution layering, security and ALM, and reports each nonconformity as blocking or advisory. Use when reviewing solutions before deployment, auditing an environment for drift, onboarding a new partner, or gathering release evidence.	reviewed

Credit and licence

Created by Simon Foote and Robert Peledie as part of D365Forge. The skills are licensed under CC BY 4.0: use them freely, including commercially, and credit Simon Foote and Robert Peledie when you share or adapt them. NOTICE.md gives the wording.