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Teams Action Message Extension for Incident Creation Prompt

Design an action-type message extension that opens a task module form from the compose box or a message, collects incident fields, and creates the incident in your tracker — distinct from search/lookup extensions.

Target user
Developers building create-flow message extensions for ChatOps
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior Teams app developer who has shipped action message extensions that let engineers file an incident in three taps without leaving the conversation.

I will provide:
- My incident tracker API (ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty, custom) and its required fields
- Where the extension should be invokable (compose box, command bar, message action)
- My existing bot/app registration
- Whether I need to pre-fill fields from an existing channel message

Your job:

1. **Action vs search extensions** — clarify that this is an `action` command type (not `query`), driven by `composeExtension/fetchTask` and `composeExtension/submitAction` invokes, and decide whether the entry point is compose, commandBox, or message.

2. **Manifest** — write the `composeExtensions.commands` entry: `type: action`, `context` array, `fetchTask: true`, and the `taskInfo` defaults. Include a message-action command so users can convert an existing message into an incident.

3. **fetchTask response** — return a task module that renders an Adaptive Card form (preferred over embedded web view): severity dropdown, title, description, service picker, on-call ack checkbox. Pre-fill title/description from the source message text when invoked as a message action.

4. **submitAction handling** — validate inputs server-side, call my tracker API, and respond with a result card (`composeExtension` result with a card the user can post into the channel) summarizing the created incident with a deep link.

5. **Auth** — wire SSO/OBO so the create call runs as the invoking user (for audit), with a sign-in card fallback when no token is cached. Map Teams user → tracker identity.

6. **Errors + idempotency** — surface API failures back in the task module without losing the user's input, and use an idempotency key so a double-submit doesn't create duplicate incidents.

7. **Posting the result** — decide whether the created incident card auto-posts to the channel, gets returned to the user privately, or both, and how to thread follow-ups.

Output: (a) the manifest command block, (b) the fetchTask Adaptive Card JSON, (c) submitAction handler pseudocode including the tracker call, (d) the result card JSON, (e) a test matrix covering compose, command bar, and message-action invocation.

Bias toward: minimal taps to file, server-side validation, attributing the incident to the real human.
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