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mcp
How Skills work in Copilot Studio agents: instructions and resources loaded on demand for specific scenarios, why you would modularize instructions into Skills, and when to use Skills versus instructions.
alm
A new Power Platform admin control lets you govern how users authenticate to Copilot Studio agents, and it answers a question that DLP channel blocking never could.
alm
The fundamentals of Application Lifecycle Management for Copilot Studio agents: environments, solutions, publishers, and pipelines - the safe baseline every maker should have in place.
knowledge
How to deliver page-level PDF citations in Copilot Studio for SharePoint and uploaded file knowledge sources, so users land on the exact page that grounded the answer.
mcp
An end-to-end walkthrough for wiring a Snowflake-managed MCP server into a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent with delegated user OAuth through Microsoft Entra ID, including the Cortex Agent prerequisite, the manual OAuth path Snowflake actually requires, and the small details that make or break the setup.
automation
When every workflow approval is another email in someone's inbox, something has gone wrong. A custom connector pattern that lets Copilot Studio workflows pause for human input and resume through any UI you want.
mcp
The Atlassian Remote MCP server uses Dynamic Client Registration. If you wire it up with Manual OAuth in Copilot Studio you'll waste an afternoon. Use Dynamic discovery and a few Atlassian admin toggles, and you're done in five minutes.
alm
Assigning billing policies to 50+ environments by hand doesn't scale, and nobody reads the budget alert email before Monday. This post walks through a bulk assignment script and an automated unlinking pipeline that solve both problems.
testing
How to build a scalable bulk file-based testing framework for Copilot Studio agents using Dataverse, SharePoint, Power Automate, and Power BI when standard evals aren't enough.
automation
How to turn natural language into OData queries over SharePoint list data using Copilot Studio connector tools with dynamic inputs — from a one-tool starter to production patterns with dynamic schemas, semantic search, and response shaping.
channels
Learn how to reliably pass context variables to Copilot Studio agents via WebChat using a Redux middleware that works on both Direct Line and the M365 Agents SDK.
testing
How to use the Copilot Studio Evaluation API to build automated quality gates in Azure DevOps pipelines, blocking PR merges when agent quality drops below threshold.