Verify

Verifying claude-for-msft-365-install

This plugin is admin CLI tooling, not an app. There is nothing to build and

no server to boot. The surface is the terminal: scripts/*.sh on macOS,

scripts/*.ps1 on Windows.

Lint gate

python3 scripts/check.py           # from the REPO ROOT, not the plugin dir
bash -n claude-for-msft-365-install/scripts/<script>.sh

check.py lints every manifest and self-installs the pre-commit hook that

patch-bumps .claude-plugin/plugin.json. Run it before committing.

Drive the scripts against a fake $HOME

Every macOS script resolves Office paths from $HOME, so overriding it gives a

throwaway sandbox — you can exercise the destructive --apply paths without

touching real Office data.

S=<scratchpad>/sandbox
for app in Excel Word Powerpoint; do
  mkdir -p "$S/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.$app/Data/Documents/wef"
done
printf '<x/>' > "$S/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Excel/Data/Documents/wef/aaaaaaaa-1111-1111-1111-111111111111.manifest-a.xml"

HOME=$S ./scripts/clear-addin-cache.sh                      # list
HOME=$S ./scripts/clear-addin-cache.sh --id <GUID>          # dry-run
HOME=$S ./scripts/clear-addin-cache.sh --id <GUID> --apply  # destructive

Seed at least two IDs across two apps, with mixed upper/lowercase. Both

properties have caught real bugs: cross-app blast radius, and a case-sensitive

glob that reported "already clear" and sent admins to a folder-wide wipe.

Prove storage is retained

The load-bearing claim of this plugin is that clearing a manifest never touches

the user's chat history. Verify it by snapshot-diffing both trees around the

operation, against the real $HOME:

snap() {
  for app in Excel Word Powerpoint; do
    find "$HOME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.$app/Data/Library/WebKit/WebsiteData" \
         -type f -exec stat -f '%N %z %m' {} \; 2>/dev/null
    find "$HOME/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.$app/Data/Documents/wef" \
         -type f -exec stat -f 'WEF %N %z' {} \; 2>/dev/null
  done | sort
}
snap > before.txt;  <run the script>;  snap > after.txt;  diff before.txt after.txt

Manifests live in Data/Documents/wef; storage lives in

Data/Library/WebKit/WebsiteData. Different subtrees — the diff should show

only the manifest you removed. **Restore any planted files and re-diff to

confirm you left the machine as you found it.**

Gotchas

• The Bash tool runs zsh. Scripts are #!/usr/bin/env bash; test bash-only

behaviour (shopt, glob semantics) inside bash <<'EOF' … EOF, not inline.

• **PRAGMA integrity_check and SELECT count(*) fail on exported IndexedDB

files** with no such collation sequence: IDBKEY. That is WebKit's custom

collation, not corruption — it fails on the source file too. Verify

completeness with SELECT sum(length(value)) FROM Records; on both sides.

• Never claim the .ps1 scripts work without running them on Windows.

macOS has no PowerShell, so a .ps1 change verified only here is unverified.

Run it on a real Windows host against Windows PowerShell 5.1, and always

include a parse check before the behavioural ones:

  $e = $null
  [System.Management.Automation.PSParser]::Tokenize(
    (Get-Content -Raw .\clear-addin-cache.ps1), [ref]$e) | Out-Null
  if ($e.Count) { $e | ForEach-Object { $_.Message } } else { 'parse ok' }

A file can be perfectly fine on macOS and fail to parse outright on Windows

(see the ASCII note below), so parsing is the first thing to establish.

• .ps1 files must be pure ASCII (enforced by scripts/check.py).

Windows PowerShell 5.1 reads a BOM-less .ps1 as ANSI, so an em dash decodes

to mojibake containing ", which terminates a string and breaks the parse.

clear-addin-cache.ps1 shipped broken this way and no macOS check caught it.

• Probe the arg parser. --flag as the final argument makes shift 2 fail

under set -e and exits 1 with no output; each flag needs a

[ $# -ge 2 ] guard.