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Dynamics 365 / Dataverse

CLI-powered solution orchestration on top of Microsoft's pac CLI. Deterministic receipts, plan locking, drift detection, and destructive intent gating — without replacing your existing ALM toolchain.

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What You Get

Deterministic Receipts

Every pack apply produces a timestamped artifact bundle: before/after snapshots, manifest.json (file hashes + category summaries), compare.json, raw pac stdout/stderr logs, and a SUMMARY.md.

Plan Locking

Plans record a baseline fingerprint (SHA-256 of the remote manifest) and a toolchain fingerprint (pac version + capabilities). Apply fails fast if either drifts.

Drift Detection

Run g-gremlin dynamics drift at any time to compare your local solution folder against the remote environment. See exactly what changed, by category.

Destructive Intent Gating

--force-overwrite on import and --allowDelete on unpack are dual-key gated: declare intent in destructive.yaml AND enable the flag in pack.yaml. No accidental overwrites.

Smoke Assertions

Define post-apply checks in pack.yaml: solution exists, version >= X, table exists, workflow active. Failed assertions exit non-zero for CI/CD.

Full pac Log Capture

Raw stdout/stderr from every pac subprocess call is saved to pac_logs/ inside the artifact bundle. Debug failures without re-running.

What We Are NOT

Not replacing Microsoft ALM Accelerator.

We wrap pac CLI, not reimplement it. If you already use ALM Accelerator or Azure DevOps pipelines, g-gremlin adds receipts and safety on top.

Not reimplementing Dataverse APIs.

We don't call Dataverse Web API directly. We wrap documented pac operations — no private APIs.

Not a UI for Power Platform.

g-gremlin is terminal-native. It's designed for AI agents and CI/CD — not for clicking through make.powerapps.com.

Example Flows

terminal

$ g-gremlin dynamics doctor --json
✓ pac CLI:    1.35.6
✓ Auth:       [email protected] (Public)
✓ Solutions:  12 found
Status: ok

terminal

$ g-gremlin dynamics snapshot --solution MySolution --out ./baseline
Snapshot written to ./baseline
  49 files  |  entity: 5  form: 12  view: 8  workflow: 3  webresource: 15  other: 6

terminal

$ g-gremlin dynamics pack plan .
  +3 files  -1 file  ~5 changed
  entity: +1 ~2  |  webresource: -1 ~1  |  form: ~2

$ g-gremlin dynamics pack apply . --yes
  Applied. Artifacts: ./artifacts/20260128T153000Z/
  SUMMARY.md written.

terminal

$ g-gremlin dynamics compare-snapshots ./baseline ./artifacts/*/after_snapshot
  Solution: MySolution
  Version: A=1.0.0.5 B=1.0.0.6
  Files:   +3 -1 ~5

How It Works

Doctor

Verify pac CLI is installed, authenticated, and can reach the target environment.

Snapshot

Export the current solution into a deterministic manifest with file hashes and category summaries.

Pack Plan

Compare your local solution folder against the remote. Lock baseline + toolchain fingerprints.

Pack Apply

Pack, import, optionally publish. Full artifact capture: before/after snapshots, pac logs, plan.json.

Compare

Diff before and after manifests. See exactly what changed at the file and category level.

Smoke

Run assertions: solution exists, correct version, tables present, workflows active.

Dynamics MCP Server

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Give Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf direct Dataverse access with 16 MCP tools. Query tables, describe schemas, and create/update/delete records and tables — all behind plan-hash verification.

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