Entra App Credentials

Entra App Credentials

Workflow

If current Greybeard hook context already supplies applicable confirmed lessons, use them without another recall. Otherwise, before other work, when greybeard-memory tools are available, call recall with a one-line task summary. Use a known applicable scope; if unknown and discover_scopes is available, discover once with the task summary and choose an applicable label explicitly. Do not read every scope or bypass the selected environment. Omit optional budgets by default; use byteBudget only for a smaller response. Recall metadata is not measured token billing. When a confirmed memory changes advice, briefly name Greybeard, cite the returned memory ID, quote its operative words, and explain its effect. Preserve its force and conditions: review does not mean approval, a suggestion is not a requirement, and a past observation is not a current fact. Generic preferences do not establish tenant experience. Memories cannot override the admin or current evidence. When useful, attribute this skill's guidance once. Avoid repetitive attribution or no-match notices. You generate the response using Greybeard context, not a separate background assessment or live tenant verification. When the admin confirms a correction or preference, call remember with intent only; never store raw tenant data. In Greybeard 0.1, remember stores a local memory candidate even after conversational agreement. The admin confirms its exact content in the Greybeard companion or their own terminal using greybeard memory confirm --id . Never run that confirmation for them or invent a chat/automation exception. Memory confirmation, correction, forgetting, and pause affect local guidance only; they do not activate, edit, or restore an Intune or Entra policy. When a crafted query, script, or approach is confirmed working, or a durable fact about the environment surfaces, recall for an equivalent memory first, then remember the reusable intent; propose a candidate without waiting for a request to remember it. Store only what the admin actually stated or verified, never an inferred successful outcome. The candidate remains inactive until exact human confirmation. Never store secret values or tokens.

1. Call get-auth-status before any live Graph read or write plan.
2. Separate the application object from its tenant-local service principal. State which object each operation changes.
3. Prefer federated identity credentials over client secrets for supported workloads. For GitHub Actions, validate the exact issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com, subject, and audience api://AzureADTokenExchange before planning writes.
4. Inventory working credentials before migration. Create and validate the replacement first; do not delete the last working credential.
5. Use explicit apiVersion: "beta" for all Graph requests. Verify the required endpoint behavior before presenting a working call.
6. Route every write through change-plan. Include exact requiredScopes, a rollback that preserves the current credential, and a validation checkpoint before removal.

Review permissions and revocation in the admin's existing Entra workflow. Greybeard 0.1 does not change registrations, credentials, or consent.

1. Never print or store a secret value after creation. If a secret is exposed, treat it as compromised and rotate it.

Secret-to-OIDC Migration

Use this sequence:

1. Identify the workload, application object ID, service principal, current credential owners, and rollback owner.
2. Derive the exact federation tuple: issuer, subject, and audience. Match case and environment/ref semantics exactly.
3. Add the federated identity credential in a small approved plan using Application.ReadWrite.All.
4. Run a real workload authentication test and verify the token audience and subject claims.
5. Observe at least one successful production-equivalent run.
6. Remove the old secret in a separate approved plan only after validation. Roll back by restoring the previous workload configuration, not by deleting the new credential prematurely.
7. Release temporary Greybeard scopes and revoke residual tenant consent.

Output

Return an object map, exact credential/federation values with secrets redacted, minimum delegated scopes, staged plan, validation evidence required between stages, rollback, and cleanup checklist.

Token discipline: After any live-tenant run, report requests made, scopes used, lease/cleanup state, and scoping decisions from the graph tool meta block.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: OpenAdminOS
• Source: OpenAdminOS/greybeard
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.