Architecture Bootcamp - V3
Architecture Bootcamp - V3
Three-day architecture bootcamp rebuilt around the agent harnesses — Copilot, Standard, and GitHub Copilot — their component models, Cowork, workflows, and coding agents. Deep dives on instructions, skills, knowledge and tools, closing with ALM, analytics, and governance.
Report an issue- 16Modules
- 9Labs
- ~16.5hContent
- 100–200–300 Levels
Agenda
- Day 1 — Framing, On-ramp, Harnesses & Deep Dives
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09:00Welcome
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09:15Introduction to Hands-On Labs
Lab environment, tenant setup, and how the hands-on flow works across the three days.
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09:30
Opening frame for the bootcamp: what an agent actually is in 2026, the five kinds of agent, the three harnesses that sit on top of Copilot Studio, and the key concepts — knowledge, tools, skills, instructions, descriptions, plugins — that every later module builds on.
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10:15Coffee break / Q&A
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10:30
Microsoft 365 Copilot as an agent surface — public-web grounding, Work IQ, response modes, multi-model support, frontier agents, and where it sits against the other surfaces.
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11:00
Use Microsoft 365 Copilot chat, Work IQ, response modes, multiple AI models, and frontier agents to turn public and organizational inform...
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11:30
Cowork at bootcamp altitude — what it is, where it fits against the other agent surfaces, and how skills and plugins extend it.
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12:00Lunch break
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13:00
Delegate a document-grounded task to Copilot Cowork and have it draft real output in Microsoft 365 on your behalf.
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13:45
The overview that anchors Day 1: how orchestration has changed, what a harness is, and the component model each harness exposes — before the three deep dives and the dedicated harnesses.
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14:15
How instructions shape behaviour on every turn, and how descriptions drive selection — which tool, knowledge source, or agent the planner reaches for.
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14:45
See what the generative orchestration planner actually reads when it decides which agent, tool, and input to use - then watch the New Orc...
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15:30Coffee break / Q&A
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15:45
Skills as instructions on demand — packaging behaviour into a reusable unit the orchestrator loads only when it becomes relevant.
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16:15
Package a repeatable procedure as a Skill, then run that one Skill across a Copilot Studio agent, a workflow, Copilot Cowork, and coding ...
- Day 2 — Knowledge & Tools and the Dedicated Harnesses
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09:00Re-Welcome / Re-cap
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09:15
Merged deep dive on grounding and action: knowledge sources and retrieval, then connectors, agent flows, custom prompts, and MCP servers.
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10:00
Learn how to extend your agents with tools including connectors, agent flows, MCP servers, and custom prompts in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
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10:30Coffee break / Q&A
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10:45
Dedicated pass over the Copilot harness: Agent Builder, pro-code declarative agents, and declarative agents authored in Copilot Studio.
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11:30
Build declarative agents in the Copilot harness with Agent Builder — grounded in web content and in your own SharePoint, with code interp...
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12:00Lunch break
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13:00
Dedicated pass over the Standard harness and the component model it exposes in Copilot Studio.
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13:30
Assemble an agent in the Standard harness from its component parts — topics, knowledge, tools and variables — one piece at a time.
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14:15Coffee break / Q&A
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14:30
The longest dedicated harness pass: the GitHub Copilot harness and its full component model — instructions, skills, knowledge, tools, memory, sandbox, and delegation.
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15:30
Assemble an agent on the GitHub Copilot harness from its components - instructions, knowledge, tools, memory, skills and the agent sandbo...
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16:00
Creating agents in the GitHub Copilot harness two ways — from the authoring UX and from natural-language chat.
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16:30Social / Networking
- Day 3 — Workflows & Operations
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09:00Re-Welcome / Re-cap / Quiz
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09:30
Workflows are the next generation of autonomous agents in Copilot Studio — inline agent connections, plus scheduled and event-driven triggers that let an agent act on its own. This module introduces the new capabilities and how they evolve beyond the classic autonomous-agent trigger model.
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10:15Coffee break / Q&A
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10:30
Build an autonomous agent using Workflows — the next generation of autonomous agents in Copilot Studio — with an event-driven trigger and...
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11:30
Multi-agent architectures and collaboration patterns in Copilot Studio.
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12:00Lunch break
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13:00
One operations module: traditional ALM and component collections, folded together with reporting, analytics, and agent evaluations.
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13:30
Coding agents against Copilot Studio: the plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, migrating existing agents, and creating new ones from the terminal.
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14:00Coffee break / Q&A
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14:15
Token optimization for creation and execution. Copilot credit management and capacity planning.
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15:15General Q&A
- Continue on your own — optional labs
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Build a main agent with child agents for product and account information. 30 min.
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Solutions, environment variables, connection references and deployment pipelines. 45 min.
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Build, share and version component collections across agents. 30 min.
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Monitor performance, configure evaluation test sets and review results. 30 min.
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DLP-restricted agents across green, yellow and red zones. 45 min.