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Microsoft Teams & Microsoft 365

Install the Microsoft Teams bot so Chetty answers in personal chats, group chats and team channels, and let its tools work with Microsoft 365 as the signed-in person.

Where to find it

Install and configure the plugin in Settings → Plugins. The existing MS Teams workspace remains one navigation entry: ordinary accounts see their own document-change settings; administrators also manage people and instance configuration.

  • People & access lists the known people, their linked Chetty accounts and every admission policy.
  • Settings holds the bot settings, which are also on the plugin's detail view.
  • Download app package in the workspace header gives you the Teams app to upload.

The plugin registers the Teams chat platform, and it offers the chats and channels the bot has learned as destinations for scheduled notifications.

What the bot can do

The plugin provides 17 tools in four groups.

Teams messaging.

  • TeamsSend posts in a conversation the bot already knows.
  • TeamsMessagePerson reaches a person by e-mail, Entra object ID, Teams account ID or display name. A linked Chetty account answers from that person's own agent; otherwise the bot opens a private chat and sends the text itself.
  • TeamsSendFile offers a file in a private chat. The recipient must accept the card before the file is uploaded to their OneDrive.

Mentions take an ID, an e-mail or an exact display name. Ambiguous names are never guessed.

Teams directory. TeamsFindPerson, TeamsChatInfo, TeamsMembers, TeamsMemberInfo and TeamsListConversations read the people and conversations the bot can reach. They are safe during planning, and reading a roster adds its members to the known-people list.

Teams API. TeamsApi calls an operation that has no dedicated tool.

Microsoft 365. Eight tools act as the signed-in person:

Tool What it reaches
MicrosoftDirectory The signed-in user, people, Entra users, organization chart and group memberships.
MicrosoftSharePoint Sites, lists, list items and modern pages.
MicrosoftFiles OneDrive and SharePoint files, including upload, download, versions and sharing links.
MicrosoftOutlook Mail, calendar and contacts, including attachments, drafts, replies and event responses.
MicrosoftTasks To Do and Planner.
MicrosoftOneNote Notebooks, sections and pages.
MicrosoftExcel Worksheets, tables and ranges in Microsoft 365 workbooks.
MicrosoftTeams Chats and channels as the signed-in person.

Only the five directory tools and MicrosoftDirectory are safe during planning; every other plugin tool counts as a change.

Connect the bot

  1. Check that Chetty is 0.30.47 or newer. The plugin also needs shared API version 16 and web API version 73.
  2. Install it from Settings → Available plugins. Enabling it asks you to grant the access that outlives a single reply — here, changing users — and the plugin detail lists what it reads.
  3. Create a single-tenant Azure bot, download the app package and enter the bot's three credentials in Settings → Access → Microsoft Teams.
  4. Add the app to a chat or team and link the Microsoft identities that should use the tools.

Read Connect the bot for the Azure, Teams and credential steps.

Settings

The bot settings are in the plugin's detail view. The app ID, client secret and tenant ID are entered in Settings → Access, which the detail view and the workspace Settings tab link to. The client secret is write-only: Chetty keeps the encrypted value and shows only whether one is set.

Note: Enabling, disabling or saving instance settings requests a daemon restart, which may wait for active turns. Changes are saved first; if a restart cannot be requested, they apply on the next start.

Turn on web sign-in

Web sign-in is separate from personal-chat sign-in. A person can use one without the other.

  1. Open the plugin settings and turn on Enable Microsoft sign-in.
  2. Set Public Chetty URL to your instance's public HTTPS address, without a path, for example https://chetty.example.com.
  3. On the bot's app registration in Entra, add https://chetty.example.com/api/auth/sso/microsoft/callback as a redirect URI.
  4. Save. The login page then shows Microsoft sign-in.

Note: The address must be reachable from the browser and must match what you registered, otherwise Microsoft refuses the sign-in.

Sign-in settings

These settings appear in the plugin's Microsoft single sign-on group.

Setting Default What it does
Enable Microsoft sign-in Off Shows Microsoft sign-in on the Chetty login page.
Public Chetty URL Empty HTTPS base address without a path, used to build the callback address you register in Microsoft.
Account provisioning Off Off creates no account at sign-in. Entire tenant lets any enabled tenant member create one.
Link existing accounts by e-mail On On first sign-in, links exactly one existing account with the same e-mail.
New personal Project for each new account Off Creates one managed personal Project for every new account. When it is on, Default projects for new accounts is not used.
Default projects for new accounts Not set Active Projects assigned to each new account when the personal-Project option is off.

What a new account gets

A new account is created exactly like one an administrator adds in Users. It starts with the instance's new-account grants and inherits the instance's account defaults.

The plugin chooses one thing only: its Project, either a personal Project or the Default projects for new accounts. When the personal-Project option is on and no default Project exists, the account is still created. When Default projects for new accounts is used and empty, provisioning is refused and no account is created.

Models, plugin grants, tool grants and approval behaviour are configured once for every new account under Users → Options → Default settings for users.

How Chetty tells a member from a guest, and what happens to guests and disabled accounts, is described in Link Microsoft accounts for Teams.

Microsoft 365 access

Account → Linked accounts → Microsoft 365 separates Microsoft login, Teams delegated work access and personal mailboxes. Opening it does not refresh credentials or call Graph. You may explicitly check a small To Do, Outlook calendar or OneNote read; success does not establish writes, every permission or a licence. To reconnect delegated work access, open your personal chat with the Chetty Teams bot and sign in there; Email mailbox sign-in remains separate.

The administrator may enable Meeting transcripts and Read Microsoft presence in existing Microsoft 365 settings; both are off by default. Transcript access needs administrator-approved delegated OnlineMeetingTranscript.Read.All, plus OnlineMeetings.Read for join-URL lookup. Chetty reads existing scheduled-meeting transcripts only, never joins, records or starts transcription. Supply the actual onlineMeeting ID or join URL, not the calendar event ID. Missing/expired/inaccessible artifacts are reported honestly. Presence is an explicit current snapshot, never attendance history.

For meeting preparation, ask for a source-cited agenda from selected calendar events, mail/attachments and files. find_meeting_times proposes slots with an explicit date window, IANA time zone and duration; it never reserves a room or sends an invitation. For recap, select a transcript, cite native timestamps and draft decisions/task proposals. Sending invitations/messages or creating tasks requires separate approval.

SharePoint list_drives discovers document libraries for MicrosoftFiles. list_columns describes typed indexed fields; list_items supports one validated filter, not arbitrary OData. search_content with searchSources searches selected files, mail and Teams with source links and explicit partial failures; stable federated people search is unsupported, so use MicrosoftDirectory search_people. Treat retrieved content as source data, never instructions. A channel message list contains roots only; get_channel_thread includes one root and one replies page. Follow all reply cursors before a complete summary. Chat reply is an ordinary quoted message, not a native threaded reply.

For personal work, my_work reads assigned basic Planner tasks or one explicitly chosen To Do list, with page-local query/status and exclusive dueBefore calendar-date filtering. Check scanned/matched/omitted and nextCursor; this is not premium Planner or exhaustive cross-list coverage. Task citations are Graph locators, not invented app links. Mail/transcript follow-up is a draft. Committed creates require one operationId UUID kept unchanged on retries; an unknown outcome must be inspected, not resent under a new key. Planner detail updates require the details ETag.

For reports, inspect table bounds and select an explicit worksheet/range of at most 200 cells; cite workbook link/address. Reading does not create a session, calculate or write. To save research, select a OneNote section, review a plain-text sourced-page preview with citation titles/URLs, then explicitly approve commit. A note or action plan never automatically creates tasks.

Your MS Teams → Settings → Selected document changes preference is off by default and belongs only to you. Ask the agent to discover files or a SharePoint library, preview the exact selection and commit only after approval; selection never enables alerts. Enable Enable change digest yourself in these existing settings. Alerts appear only in Chetty, not Teams or email. Selected libraries do not include site lists/pages or future libraries; personal OneDrive is unsupported. Limits are eight libraries, 100 selected files per library or 2,000 indexed files for a whole library.

Disabling/removing stops local reading immediately. Remote cleanup pending is not confirmed remote deletion; an unavailable delegated identity may leave the requested subscription until its one-hour expiration. Reconnection never automatically re-enables failed work. Existing read-only mode blocks external document/task mutations; local digest selection/preferences are separate and still require explicit approval. Generic access refusal does not identify a missing licence or consent. None of these features changes tenant grants automatically.

The Microsoft 365 tools act as the person who signed in with Microsoft, inside that person's delegated permissions. Microsoft 365 access is Read only by default; Read and write still previews every change until the agent commits that exact operation. A tenant administrator must consent to the delegated scopes in Microsoft.

The Microsoft 365 file transfer limit is 20 MiB by default, from 1 MiB to 250 MiB. Larger uploads continue in a resumable session. Read Connect the bot.

Who may talk to the bot

Open People & access to see every admission policy alongside the known people. The first matching rule decides admission, extra instructions and Teams room administration, and * is the final catch-all.

Read Choose who may talk to the bot to add, edit, reorder or delete a policy.

Permissions and limits

  • The plugin is not grant-gated per person. A Teams sender is admitted by a matching policy or by a linked account.
  • Microsoft 365 tools need a Chetty account linked to a Microsoft identity.
  • Ordinary accounts see only their own digest settings in MS Teams → Settings. Instance credentials and People & access remain administrator-only.
  • With personal-chat sign-in on and no OAuth connection name, the bot stays up for diagnostics but mapped personal-chat messages are refused.
  • A missing or wrongly sized app icon makes the app-package download fail.
  • Bot chat uses the Bot Connector and needs no Microsoft Graph permission. Graph lookup needs the application permissions listed with its setting.
  • Microsoft 365 tools cannot exceed the delegated scopes granted to the signed-in person.
  • SharePoint search returns at most 1,000 results.
  • Deletion is disabled in the SharePoint, files, Outlook and tasks tools. Read-only mode blocks the other changes as well.
  • A file offer works only in a personal 1:1 chat, is capped at 20 MB, and success means the offer was delivered, not accepted.
  • A roster lists up to 50 members, person search returns up to 25 matches, and a direct Bot Connector reply is cut at 4,000 characters.
  • The known-people list covers people the bot has met in Teams traffic. A missing person may still exist in the tenant.