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Copilot Studio Agent Academy Recruit

Welcome, Recruit.
Your mission—should you choose to accept it—is to master the art of building agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.

This hands-on training is your entry point into the world of agents: from grounded prompts to Adaptive Cards and agent flows, you'll learn how to build, scale, and deploy intelligent agents using real-world tools and use cases.

🎯 Mission Objective

By completing the Agent Academy, you'll be able to:

  • Understand what agents are in the context of Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • Explore how Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration come together in an agent
  • Build both declarative and custom agents
  • Enhance agents with Topics, Adaptive Cards, and Agent Flows
  • Deploy agents to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot

🧪 Prerequisites

To complete all missions, you’ll need:

  • A Microsoft 365 Developer tenant (with SharePoint enabled)
  • Access to Microsoft Copilot Studio (trial or licensed)
  • Optional: Basic knowledge of SharePoint, Power Platform, or Power Fx

🧬 Who This Is For

This course is ideal for:

  • Makers and developers exploring Copilot Studio
  • IT pros building Microsoft 365 Copilot extensions
  • Power Platform enthusiasts who want to level up with intelligent agents
  • Anyone who prefers to learn by doing

🧭 Curriculum Overview

This academy is broken into progressive lessons—each one designed as a field mission to level up your agent-building skills.

Lesson Title Mission Briefing
00 🧰 Course Setup Set up your dev environment, Copilot Studio trial, and SharePoint site
01 🧠 Introduction to Agents Understand conversational AI concepts, LLMs, and autonomous vs. declarative agents
02 🛠️ Copilot Studio Fundamentals Learn the building blocks: knowledge, skills, autonomy
03 👩‍💻 Create a Declarative Agent Add your own agent to the Microsoft 365 Copilot, grounded in a prompt
04 🧩 Creating a Solution Package your agent into a reusable solution for environment management
05 🚀 Get Started with Pre-Built Agents Use and customize a template agent to accelerate setup
06 ✍️ Build a Custom Agent Create a new Copilot grounded in knowledge sources
07 🧠 Add a Topic with Triggers Use Topics to define custom question/answer paths
08 🪪 Enhance with Adaptive Cards Build an Adaptive Card using Power Fx and SharePoint
09 🔁 Automate with Agent Flows Use Adaptive Card input to trigger back-end flows
10 🧭 Add Event Triggers Enable your agent to act autonomously using event-based logic
11 📢 Publish Your Agent Deploy your agent to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot
12 🪪 Understanding Licensing Learn how licensing and billing works with Copilot Studio

Note

✅ Completing this curriculum earns you the Recruit badge.
🔓 Operative and Commander will be unlocked in future phases.

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