| name | microsoft-todo |
| description | Create, find, complete, and organize tasks and task lists in Microsoft To Do (Microsoft's to-do app), plus break tasks into checklist steps. Use when the user wants to capture a task, check their to-do list, mark something done, or manage their tasks/lists — even if they don't say "Microsoft To Do" explicitly (e.g. "add buy milk to my tasks", "what's on my to-do list", "mark that done"). |
| license | Elastic-2.0 |
| compatibility | Run `npm install --omit=dev` in this directory, then `node cli.js`. The TypeScript source needs Node.js 22.18+; on older Node, run `cli.js` for build-it-yourself / prebuilt / alternative-runtime options. |
| metadata | {"source":"https://github.com/zapier/connectors/blob/main/apps/microsoft-todo/SKILL.md","title":"Microsoft Todo","api-docs":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/todo-overview","zapier-app-key":"MSTodoCLIAPI"} |
Microsoft Todo
Agent-callable tools for Microsoft To Do against the Microsoft Graph v1.0 To Do API (https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/todo/...): list/get/create/update/delete task lists, list/get/create/update/delete tasks, find a task by title, mark a task complete, and manage a task's checklist items (steps). 16 scripts, all against a single user's task lists over one OAuth connection.
Independent, unofficial connector for Microsoft Todo. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Todo. "Microsoft Todo" is a trademark of its owner, used only to identify the service this connector works with.
When to use this
- An agent needs to capture or find a task — create a task (optionally in the default list), find one by title, or list/filter tasks in a list.
- An agent needs to organize tasks or lists — create/rename/delete task lists, update a task's due date, importance, or status, or delete a task.
- An agent needs to complete or reopen work — mark a task done with
completeTask, or reopen it via updateTask(status: "notStarted").
- An agent needs to break a task into steps — list, add, update, or delete a task's checklist items (subtasks).
Setup
This is an agentskills.io skill.
If the connector has not been installed as a skill yet, install it first with npx skills add zapier/connectors --skill microsoft-todo (or your harness's own skill-install mechanism), then continue here. Installing the skill copies these files, not dependencies. Before running the CLI, a local MCP server, or zapier-sdk auth commands, run npm install --omit=dev here once. Importing the published package as a dependency in your own project instead? That npm install already resolves everything — see references/use-as-sdk.md.
Want the actual repo source instead — to browse references/, run this connector's tests, or hack on it? See README.md for a scoped git clone.
The connector runs on Node.js 22.18+. Pick the reference that matches how you're running it, and load it before doing anything else:
| You have... | Load |
|---|
An MCP-aware client — tools may already be loaded (e.g. mcp__microsoft-todo__<tool>), or you can register a local server yourself (or guide the user to) | references/use-as-mcp.md |
Terminal / subprocess access (you can run node) | references/use-as-cli.md |
| Only your own code, importing this package as a dependency | references/use-as-sdk.md |
| No tool access, no terminal, no ability to import this package — you write your own code that calls the Microsoft Todo API directly (e.g. a code-execution sandbox) | references/use-as-recipe.md |
Scripts
All scripts use the single connection microsoft-todo. listId is optional on createTask/listTasks/findTask (omit to target your default list); every other task/checklist script requires an explicit listId from listLists.
Disambiguation & refusals
Disambiguation before acting on a looked-up task. Before updating, completing, or deleting a task resolved by title (via findTask or listTasks(filter)), count the matches — task titles aren't unique in Microsoft To Do:
- Exactly one match — act on it. Don't over-ask; a single unambiguous match is the answer.
- Two or more that tie — stop. List the tied candidates with a distinguishing field (
id, dueDateTime, or createdDateTime) and ask the user which one they mean. Don't pick arbitrarily and don't act on all of them.
Unsupported operations — say so and stop; don't fake it with another tool. This catalog deliberately does not:
- Author recurring/repeating tasks.
createTask/updateTask have no recurrence input. If asked to create a task that repeats, create the one-time task and say recurrence isn't supported — don't invent a workaround that silently drops the repeat.
- Move a task between lists as a single operation. There's no
moveTask tool. To relocate a task, create it in the target list and delete the original — and say so, since the task gets a new id (a task's id changes whenever it moves between lists; don't claim the original id was relocated in place).
- Show a task's linked source item (e.g. the email it was created from).
linkedResources aren't exposed by any tool — only checklistItems (steps) are.
If asked for any of these, tell the user it's unsupported (or, for a move, explain the recreate-and-delete workaround) and stop — don't reach for an unrelated tool to approximate it.
Auth
Every shape passes auth as one connection selector, not the secret — a [<resolver>:]<value> string. Every connector accepts zapier:<connection-id> (Zapier-managed auth — routes through Zapier's auth, retries, and governance layer); some also accept one or more direct-token resolvers (naming and count vary per connector) — check this connector's own resolvers rather than assuming. The <resolver>: prefix is optional; a bare value goes to the first resolver that claims it — a UUID-shaped bare value always claims zapier:. Each script declares the connections it needs and the resolvers each accepts. The exact syntax for passing a connection (and how to see this connector's resolver list) differs by shape — see the reference you loaded above.
Checking what's already configured first? Don't dump environment values to do it — env or env | grep <name> prints the value along with the name, leaking a live credential into the transcript if one is set. Check names only (env | cut -d= -f1 | grep -i <name>) or test a known name directly ([ -n "$VAR_NAME" ]).
No connection yet? Pick one — and follow the reference's own flow to obtain it; never just ask the user for a connection id or token as if they already have one memorized:
Output format
Every script returns a { data, meta } envelope:
data — the script's result (the shape its outputSchema declares; see the reference you loaded above for how to inspect a script's exact schema in your shape).meta.outputDataValidation — what validating data did:
{ skipped: false, droppedPaths: null } — validated, nothing removed.{ skipped: false, droppedPaths: [...], instruction } — validated, but those paths were stripped from data: fields the script returned from the API that the outputSchema doesn't declare. If you need them, re-run with output validation skipped.{ skipped: true } — validation was bypassed; data is the raw, unchecked script output.
Reading dropped fields / skipOutputDataValidation. To receive the raw, unvalidated result, opt out of output validation (the exact syntax differs by shape — see the reference you loaded above). Input validation is never skipped.
Trimming the result / filterOutputData. To shrink a large result down to the fields you need, pass a jq expression that post-processes data (again, exact syntax per shape). The jq runs against data only, NOT the { data, meta } envelope, so write it rooted at data (run the script's --help — or your shape's equivalent — to see its output schema). The transformed value replaces data, meta is preserved, and the result is NOT re-validated against the output schema.
References
Load the matching reference file before working in that area:
| Reference | Covers | Load it when |
|---|
references/microsoft-todo-api-gotchas.md | Auth/permissions (delegated-only writes), id stability after list moves, todoTaskList shape (wellknownListName, built-in lists), task status + dateTimeTimeZone handling, task body update quirk, categories, checklist items vs. linked resources, pagination, error codes, rate limiting. | A call errors, a taskId stops resolving after a list move, a date/time value doesn't round-trip as expected, or you're unsure how paging, built-in lists, or categories behave. |
references/use-as-recipe.md | A reference implementation of the request/response shapes and error-handling pattern for calling Microsoft Graph To Do directly, for a harness that can't load these tools, run the CLI, or import this package. | You're writing your own code against the vendor API (e.g. a code-execution sandbox) instead of calling this connector's tools/CLI/package directly. |
