Deep dive in modern agents

A hands-on, full-day workshop focused on engineering enterprise agents with Cowork and the new GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio. Explore its component model, including instructions, skills, knowledge, tools, memory, hooks, sandbox execution, and delegation.

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  • 6Modules
  • 5Labs
  • ~4.5hContent
  • 200–300 Levels

Agenda

  1. 09:00
    Welcome & Intro
    30 min
  2. 09:30
    Intro to Hands-On Labs
    15 min
  3. 09:45
    Module 1: When to Use What?

    An overview of the available agent stacks and harnesses, and when to use each one.

    Slides
    Level 200 15 min
  4. 10:00
    Coffee break
    15 min
  5. 10:15
    Module 2: Cowork (+ skills, + plugins)

    Explore Cowork's delegation model and how skills and plugins extend it, then practice document-grounded email drafting and SharePoint dashboard creation.

    Slides
    Level 100 15 min
  6. 10:30
    Lab 1: Cowork + Plugins Hands-On Lab

    Use Copilot Cowork to draft emails, build a SharePoint sales dashboard, and generate an RFP response with a plugin in 30 minutes, with op...

    Level 200 30 min
  7. 11:00
    Module 3: GitHub Copilot UI, Orchestration and Harnesses

    Explore the GitHub Copilot harness interface, agentic orchestration, and component model before assembling and testing an agent in the hands-on lab.

    Slides
    Level 300 15 min
  8. 11:15
    Lab 2: GitHub Copilot Harness - Component Model

    Assemble an agent on the GitHub Copilot harness from its components - instructions, knowledge, tools, memory, skills and the agent sandbo...

    Level 300 45 min
  9. 12:00
    Lunch break
    60 min
  10. 13:00
    Module 4: Workflows

    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.

    Slides
    Level 300 15 min
  11. 13:15
    Lab 3: Workflows

    Build an autonomous agent using Workflows — the next generation of autonomous agents in Copilot Studio — with an event-driven trigger and...

    Level 300 45 min
  12. 14:00
    Module 5: Deep Dive: Instructions, Skills, Runtime and Sandbox

    The Deep dive in modern agents workshop's focused module on agent instructions, reusable Skills, and the GitHub Copilot harness runtime and sandbox, with a hands-on Skill authoring lab.

    Slides
    Level 300 15 min
  13. 14:15
    Lab 4: Instructions and Skills Authoring

    Build and test an RFP Response agent with an existing Skill, inspect its package, and chart source data in the sandbox. Optionally create...

    Level 300 30 min
  14. 14:45
    Module 6: Deep Dive: Knowledge and Tools

    Deep dive into SharePoint metadata filtering and agent hooks: load user context, redact prompt PII and block unapproved travel options.

    Slides
    Level 200 15 min
  15. 15:00
    Lab 5: Hooks and Knowledge: Travel Policy Agent

    Build a Travel Policy Agent and use hooks to load the traveler's profile at session start, redact personal data with a classifier and an ...

    Level 200 30 min
  16. 15:30
    Q&A
    30 min

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