# Dataverse Business Skills > Updated 2026-10-02 · type: tool · category: crm-sales · status: active · rev 1 Microsoft's Dataverse Business Skills gives an agent MIT natural-language playbooks for Dynamics 365 Sales jobs, defined as files the agent reads and follows. - Open source: yes (MIT) - Self-hostable: no - Pricing model: free - Best for: A team already on Microsoft Dataverse / Dynamics 365 Sales that wants ready-made, versionable agent skills — natural-language definitions of its sales processes (activity logging, briefing prep, outreach, forecasting) — that an agent can read and follow, kept as MIT files it can fork and edit. - Not for: A team not on the Microsoft Power Platform / Dynamics stack. The skills query Dataverse tables (opportunity, lead, competitor) and need a Dataverse environment plus Dynamics 365 Sales entities, so they are not usable as a standalone open tool outside that ecosystem. - Last verified: 2026-10-02 - **Canonical:** https://gtmstacker.com/registry/tool/dataverse-business-skills/ - **Source:** [microsoft · GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/dataverse-business-skills) - **Tags:** crm-sales, mcp-agents, agent-skills, dynamics-365, dataverse, gtm-playbooks - **Repository:** https://github.com/microsoft/dataverse-business-skills ## Is Dataverse Business Skills open source? Yes, Dataverse Business Skills is open source under the MIT license. ## How much does Dataverse Business Skills cost? Dataverse Business Skills is free to use. ## Can I self-host Dataverse Business Skills? No, Dataverse Business Skills is not self-hostable. ## Alternatives & related - [Cold Outbound Skills](https://gtmstacker.com/registry/tool/cold-outbound-skills/) --- Dataverse Business Skills is Microsoft's open (MIT) catalog of agent skills for Microsoft Dataverse: natural-language instructions that capture how a sales org works (logging activity, prepping briefings, drafting outreach, forecasting) in a format an AI agent can read and follow. Open source: yes (MIT) for the skill definitions. It is not standalone, though: it requires a Microsoft Dataverse / Dynamics 365 environment. It is free (MIT), has ~52 stars, and comes from the microsoft org. ## What it does A "business skill" here is a natural-language definition of a business process, policy, or piece of domain knowledge, written so an agent connected to Dataverse can execute it. The repo is a catalog of these for Dynamics 365 Sales work, and the skills query real CRM tables such as opportunity, lead, and competitor. You deploy them two ways: import the managed Dataverse solution (no code), or point an AI agent with Dataverse access (for example Claude Code or Copilot via the Dataverse MCP server) at the skills/ folder and have it create them. Because the definitions are MIT files, you can fork them, edit your own process into them, and version them like any other asset. Open source: yes (MIT); free. It requires a Microsoft Dataverse environment and provisioned Dynamics 365 Sales entities, so it is not self-hostable outside that stack. ## Provenance - MIT per repo (license read from GitHub metadata, not guessed); ~52 stars; from the microsoft org (github.com/microsoft/dataverse-business-skills, verified 2026-10-02). - README: "A growing collection of ready-to-use AI agent skills for Microsoft Dataverse"; business skills are natural-language instructions agents follow; most skills query Dynamics 365 Sales tables (opportunity, lead, competitor). - Prerequisites: a Microsoft Dataverse environment (Power Apps / Dynamics 365 / Power Platform) plus Dynamics 365 Sales entities; deploy via managed solution import or by an agent with Dataverse access. - Surfaced in the GTM Stacker X/Twitter signal report (2026-10-02 pass); license/facts independently verified 2026-10-02. Not a fresh drop (published/last-updated earlier in 2026, resurfaced on X). ## Why it matters for a GTM stack The interesting part is the pattern: your GTM process, written as plain-language skills an agent follows, kept as MIT files you own and version rather than locked in a vendor's prompt box. For a team already on Dynamics 365 Sales, that is a real head start on putting an agent to work on logging, briefings, outreach, and forecasting without writing the instructions from scratch. The honest read: this only helps if you are already on the Microsoft stack. MIT covers the skill text, not the environment, so the free playbooks still require a Dataverse / Dynamics 365 setup to run against, and the repo is low-traction and not newly updated. Treat it as a starting catalog to fork for your own process, not a turnkey or stack-agnostic tool, and read the actual skills before trusting any single one in production.