Set up Microsoft Teams as a notification channel for your Egregore.
Arguments: $ARGUMENTS (none expected)
When to invoke
Trigger phrases:
- "set up teams", "connect teams", "teams-connect", "microsoft teams"
- "add teams notifications", "teams channel", "notify us on teams"
Disambiguation:
- "set up telegram" →
/telegram-connect
- "send a message to teams" → NOT this — use the separate notification
consent protocol in
.claude/context/notification-consent.md
What this does
Registers a bot in the org's own Microsoft tenant, installs it in their Teams,
and binds one channel to Egregore notifications. After this, everything that
plans a group notification may also resolve Teams as a receiving channel; all
resolved channels are shown before separate dispatch approval.
You (the agent) run all the Azure work via az after one browser login. The
human does exactly three things: one login, two portal clicks, one paste.
OSS tier — visible, gated, honest
This skill ships to every Egregore, but Teams notifications run on the
Connected tier. Before anything else, detect the tier:
bash bin/config-get.sh mode
Use the printed value as {mode}; quote it in single quotes when you use it in a command, and write any single quote inside the value as '\''. If it prints local, the instance is on
the local (OSS) tier; if it prints connected, continue with setup.
The command uses exactly the canonical _detect_mode truth table
(bin/lib/config.sh): explicit local mode or an empty API URL means local.
(A hand-set mode: "connected" without an api_url is still local — never
treat it as an unlock.)
On the local tier, deliver exactly this message, then the question — do not
paraphrase the message:
You can expand your knowledge base with connections to Notion, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and many more. Upgrade to Connected Tier to accelerate.
Ask with a structured question when available and permitted in this session; otherwise ask in plain text:
- Upgrade to Connected Tier — tell them the one sanctioned path: run
egregore connect in a terminal (the launcher walks the whole upgrade:
registers your org with the platform, provisions the key, replays your
graph). Teams notifications unlock once Connect is active.
- Not now — respect it and stop. Do not improvise config edits,
api_url values, or partial flows.
Only continue past this section on a connected instance.
Step 0: Prerequisites (check before touching anything)
Ask, or verify where possible. All three must be true:
- A Microsoft 365 tenant with Teams (work tenant, not personal Teams).
- The person here is admin of that tenant (Entra + Teams admin center).
- An Azure subscription in that tenant — the bot resource is free (F0) but must live in a subscription.
az CLI must be installed: which az — if missing, brew install azure-cli
(macOS) or point at https://aka.ms/azure-cli for their OS.
Step 1: Login (human, ~1 min)
Ask them to run in the prompt:
! az login
Then verify tenant + user:
az account show --query "{tenant:tenantId, user:user.name, state:state}" -o json
Verify Teams is actually licensed (the #1 silent dead-end — an Azure-only
tenant has no Teams and the Teams admin center errors with a cryptic
"can't find the tenant region for …" / PLS message):
az rest --method get --url "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/subscribedSkus" \
--query "value[].skuPartNumber" -o json
[] or no Teams-bearing SKU → they need a license first. Guide: M365
admin center → Marketplace → Microsoft 365 Business Basic (Trial).
EEA trap: every SKU marked "(no Teams)" literally excludes Teams
(EU unbundling) — pick the plain variant, or add "Microsoft Teams EEA"
separately. After purchase, assign the license (set usageLocation on the
user first — assignLicense fails without it, and racing the two calls
fails too: PATCH usageLocation, then assign in a separate call).
- Graph 403
AADSTS530035 (security defaults) → az logout && az login fresh.
Step 2: Azure infrastructure (agent, ~2 min)
Use the app ID printed here as {app_id}, the tenant ID from Step 1 as
{tenant_id}, and the chosen Azure region (for example westeurope) as
{region}; single-quote substituted values as shown and write any embedded
single quote as '\''.
- App registration (single-tenant — deliberate; Microsoft is deprecating new multi-tenant bots):
az ad app create --display-name "Egregore Notifications" --sign-in-audience AzureADMyOrg \
--query "{appId:appId}" -o json
- Client secret (2 years):
az ad app credential reset --id '{app_id}' --display-name "teams-notify" --years 2 -o json
- Service principal —
az ad app create does NOT make one; skipping this
yields token 401 AADSTS7000229 later:
az ad sp create --id '{app_id}'
- Resource group + free Azure Bot + Teams channel, one command at a time:
az group create -n egregore-bots -l '{region}'
az bot create --resource-group egregore-bots --name egregore-notifications \
--app-type SingleTenant --appid '{app_id}' --tenant-id '{tenant_id}' --sku F0
az bot msteams create --name egregore-notifications --resource-group egregore-bots
Save to the instance .env (gitignored — never commit):
TEAMS_APP_ID=…
TEAMS_APP_SECRET=…
TEAMS_TENANT_ID=…
Smoke the token before proceeding (catches AADSTS7000229 immediately):
curl -sS -X POST "https://login.microsoftonline.com/<TENANT_ID>/oauth2/v2.0/token" \
-d grant_type=client_credentials -d "client_id=<APP_ID>" \
-d "client_secret=<SECRET>" -d "scope=https://api.botframework.com/.default"
Step 3: App package + catalog upload (human, 2 clicks)
Build and reveal the zip:
bash teams-app/build-package.sh '{app_id}'
After the build succeeds:
open teams-app/build/
(If this instance doesn't carry teams-app/, fetch it from the framework repo.)
Guide them: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/manage-apps →
Actions → Upload new app → pick egregore-teams-app.zip.
Traps:
- Fresh tenants show "setting up your new app management experience… up to
30 minutes" with the upload button greyed out. It's provisioning — wait, refresh.
- Re-uploading the same app id via "Upload new app" is rejected — updates go
through the app's detail page → Upload file to update.
Step 4: Add the bot to the team (human, 1 click)
In Teams — the work account (trap: the desktop app may silently be the
consumer client — "Build your community" UI, no org catalog; use
teams.microsoft.com if in doubt): Apps → Built for your org → Egregore →
▾ → Add to a team → pick the channel → Set up a bot.
Without this, sends fail 403 BotNotInConversationRoster.
Step 5: Channel binding (human pastes, agent decodes)
Ask for the channel link (channel → ⋯ → Get link to channel), then decode:
python3 -c "import sys,urllib.parse,re; m=re.search(r'(19%3a[^/?]+|19:[^/?]+)', sys.argv[1]); print(urllib.parse.unquote(m.group(1)))" "<PASTED_LINK>"
Result must look like 19:…@thread.tacv2.
Step 6: Persist
mkdir -p tmp
Only read the response with jq after the helper succeeds. If it fails, show
its error and stop;
the helper leaves no response file after a failure.
Write the file tmp/teams-connect-bind.json with
{"conversation_id":"<CONV_ID>","app_id":"<APP_ID>","app_secret":"<SECRET>","tenant_id":"<TENANT_ID>"},
substituting the channel and Azure registration values. Non-default region:
the bot's service URL may differ from the EMEA default — include "service_url"
too (Azure portal → the bot → Channels → Teams shows it). The helper reads
EGREGORE_API_KEY internally.
bash bin/api-call.sh POST /api/org/teams --auth egregore --json-file tmp/teams-connect-bind.json --out tmp/teams-connect-bind-response.json
jq '.' tmp/teams-connect-bind-response.json
Expect {"status":"connected", …}. The per-org creds matter: a single-tenant
bot only works in its home tenant, so each org brings its own registration.
Step 7: Verify with separate exact notification consent
Follow .claude/context/notification-consent.md. Connecting Teams is not
consent to send a test message. Prepare after configuration is final:
mkdir -p tmp
bash bin/notify.sh plan group "Teams channel connected — this message reached you through Egregore." > tmp/teams-connect-plan.json
jq -r '.plan_id, .digest' tmp/teams-connect-plan.json
Use the printed values as {plan_id} and {digest}, respectively, for the
notification consent flow. Read the exact preview fields:
jq -r '.org, .recipient, .channels, .deliveries, .message' tmp/teams-connect-plan.json
Show every resolved receiving channel—potentially both Telegram and Teams—and
the exact message in a dedicated Send / Edit / Cancel checkpoint. Only dispatch
after Send is selected for that preview. Card avatar may show a generic icon
for a few hours (Teams caches
app icons) — cosmetic, self-heals.
Troubleshooting quick table
| Symptom | Cause → fix |
|---|
| "can't find the tenant region" (PLS) in Teams admin center | No M365/Teams license on the tenant → Step 1 licensing |
Token 401 AADSTS7000229 | Missing service principal → az ad sp create --id '{app_id}' |
Send 403 BotNotInConversationRoster | Bot not added to the team → Step 4 |
| Send 404 | Wrong conversation id or wrong service_url region |
| "already an app with the same app ID" on upload | Use the app detail page → Upload file to update |
| No Apps rail / no org catalog in Teams | Consumer Teams client → work account at teams.microsoft.com |
| Upload button greyed out | Tenant still provisioning app management (≤30 min) |
After
Emit telemetry (fire-and-forget):
bash bin/telemetry.sh emit "teams-connect" '{"command":"teams-connect"}' 2>/dev/null &