Agent in a Day v3
Agent in a Day v3
A hands-on, full-day workshop built on the Architecture Bootcamp V3 material. Start with how agents and workflows get real, then work through the agent surfaces and harnesses — M365 Copilot and frontier agents, Cowork with skills and plugins, the orchestration and component-model overview, the Copilot harness, the GitHub Copilot harness, and Workflows. Every instructor-led module is paired with its own hands-on lab.
Report an issue- 7Modules
- 5Labs
- ~7.5hContent
- 100–200–300 Levels
Agenda
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07:30Registration, Breakfast & Networking
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08:00Welcome & Program Overview
Meet your instructors, review the day, and set expectations.
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08:15Introduction to Hands-On Labs
Lab environment, tenant setup, and how the hands-on flow works through the day.
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08:30
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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09:00
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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09:30
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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10:00Coffee & Refreshments
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10:15
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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10:45
Delegate a document-grounded task to Copilot Cowork and have it draft real output in Microsoft 365 on your behalf.
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11:15
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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11:45Fireside Chat / Q&A
Open discussion with the instructors — architecture questions, adoption experience, and what to take back.
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12:00Lunch & Networking
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12:45
Dedicated pass over the Copilot harness: Agent Builder, pro-code declarative agents, and declarative agents authored in Copilot Studio.
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13:15
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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13:45
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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14:30Coffee & Refreshments
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14:45
Assemble an agent on the GitHub Copilot harness from its components - instructions, knowledge, tools, memory, skills and the agent sandbo...
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15:30
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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16:00
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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16:45Closing Remarks / Ask Me Anything
Wrap-up, where to go next, and an open floor for questions.