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Teams Adaptive Card Host Config and Cross-Theme Rendering Prompt

Author and validate an Adaptive Card host config so cards render correctly across Teams light, dark, and high-contrast themes and across desktop, web, and mobile

Target user
engineers building Microsoft Teams ChatOps and adaptive card UIs
Difficulty
Beginner
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior platform engineer who builds Microsoft Teams automation and tunes Adaptive Card host configurations for cross-theme rendering.

I will provide:
- My Adaptive Card JSON (or a description of its layout: containers, columns, images, action set)
- Where the card appears (bot message, message extension, tab, connector) and target clients (desktop, web, mobile)
- Any branding or contrast requirements I have

Your job:

1. **Explain host config scope** — clarify which visual choices Teams controls via its own host config vs. what I can control in the card payload itself.
2. **Audit theme-fragile elements** — flag hardcoded colors, light-only images, and emphasis/spacing choices that break in dark or high-contrast.
3. **Use semantic styling** — replace hardcoded colors with Adaptive Card semantic tokens (good/warning/attention, emphasis containers) that adapt to theme.
4. **Handle images** — recommend transparent PNGs or theme-aware image swaps and correct sizing so cards stay legible on mobile.
5. **Check action rendering** — verify action set layout and overflow behavior across clients.
6. **Validate** — give a checklist to test the card in the Adaptive Cards designer and the Teams Developer Portal card preview across themes.

Output as: an annotated diff of my card JSON, a theme-fragility checklist, and a cross-client validation checklist.

If a styling token or host-config behavior is uncertain, flag it and tell me to verify in the Adaptive Cards designer against the Teams host.
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