Learning objectives

Your first “Hello World” agent in 5 minutes

Agent templates, managed agents, and the Agent Store

Microsoft’s “agents” versus industry agents What’s real

Demo No-code agents in M365 Copilot Agent Builder

Autonomous agents What you can build today

Demo Prompting in M365 Copilot

Demo Low-code agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio

Demo Code-first agents in Microsoft Foundry

How to create AI agents like a pro in Copilot Studio Introduction

Build and ship your first production agent

Natural language agent creation using Describe tab

Configure instructions and conversation style

Add SharePoint knowledge sources

Demo Ground your agent in organizational data

Demo Integrating tool-calling into our agent’s behavior

Demo Introducing the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code

Demo Publishing your agent to M365 Copilot and Teams

Demo Building out a topic structure

Understand actions versus topics versus flows

The agent flow pattern

Agent flows vs. cloud flows

Variables and decision logic without code

Demo Deeper into Copilot Studio topic flows

Demo Debugging the agent flow

Demo Designing and building an agent flow

Ticket creation and approval workflows

From chatbot to business system

Multi-step conversations and topic routing

Demo Experimenting with conversational boosting

Demo Testing the agent

Demo Review the agent’s structure

Demo More work with agent flows

From reactive to autonomous

Event triggers and payloads

Demo Sharpening our agent’s custom instructions

AI models and deep reasoning

Demo Implementing tools and agent flows

Demo Debugging the agent

Unstructured data and the dark matter problem

Knowledge indexing and semantic search

Deterministic processing and notifications

Demo Testing and optimizing the agent

Demo Reviewing the agent’s runtime behavior

Building vs. deploying

Teams and the organizational catalog

Copilot credits and ROI

Analytics and governance

Demo Revisiting agent deployment

Demo Governing your Copilot Studio agents

Discovery and opportunity matrix

Discovery and prioritization

Certifications and community

Demo Analyzing Copilot billing and licensing

Phased roadmap and next steps

Demo Touring the Microsoft Agent Usage Estimator

How to create AI agents like a pro in Copilot Studio Summary