Welcome 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.
IMPORTANT
Microsoft Copilot Studio is rolling out a new authoring experience. The lessons in this course currently use the classic experience shown in the screenshots and steps. If your screen looks different, turn off New Experience in the upper-right corner to follow along. Refreshed lessons for the new experience are planned, but the current material remains valid in the classic experience.
🎯 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
🚀 The next generation of Recruit is coming!
We're actively working on a new Recruit path showing how to build an agent with the new experience in Copilot Studio. Get a sneak peek here →
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 agent 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 |
13 | 🚨 Securing Your Recruit Badge | Claim your badge and mark your achievement! |
NOTE
✅ Completing this curriculum earns you the Recruit badge.
🔓 Operative and Commander will be unlocked in future phases.