AB-620T00: Design and build integrated AI agent solutions in Copilot Studio
Build advanced agents in Copilot Studio.
About this course
Build advanced agents in Copilot Studio. Over three days you will deliver rich responses with Adaptive Cards, take action through topics, tools and agent flows, shape generative answers, design multi-agent solutions with child, connected and A2A agents, and integrate external systems through connectors, REST APIs and MCP.
Curriculum
- Configure message formatting in agent topics
- Design informational Adaptive Cards for agent responses
- Collect user input with interactive Adaptive Cards
- Apply channel-specific considerations for Adaptive Cards
- Module assessment
- Call tools from agent topics
- Call agent flows from agent topics
- Retrieve and send data using the HTTP request node
- Module assessment
- Configure the generative answers node in a topic
- Connect custom knowledge sources to a generative answers node
- Shape AI responses with custom instructions
- Author and configure custom prompts in topics
- Module assessment
- Understand multi-agent architectures in Copilot Studio
- Design multi-agent solutions using child agents
- Design multi-agent solutions using connected agents
- Module assessment
- Understand child agents in Copilot Studio
- Create and configure a child agent
- Configure child agent inputs, outputs, and trigger behavior
- Test and manage child agents
- Module assessment
- Understand connected agents in Copilot Studio
- Connect an existing Copilot Studio agent
- Connect a Microsoft Foundry agent
- Connect a Microsoft Fabric Data agent
- Manage and test your connected agent solution
- Module assessment
- Understand the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol
- Connect a Copilot Studio agent to an A2A-enabled agent
- Test and validate an A2A agent connection
- Module assessment
- Explore the Copilot Studio integration landscape
- Compare action integration patterns
- Authenticate and govern agent integrations
- Select integration patterns for enterprise scenarios
- Module assessment
- Understand connector and REST API tools in Copilot Studio
- Add prebuilt and custom connector tools to an agent
- Configure authentication for connector tools
- Add a REST API tool using an OpenAPI specification
- Module assessment
- Choose between Copilot connector and Power Platform connector knowledge sources
- Add Copilot connectors as knowledge sources
- Configure Power Platform connectors as real-time knowledge sources
- Connect an agent to Azure AI Search
- Module assessment
- Understand MCP and its role in Copilot Studio integration
- Connect an agent to an existing MCP server
- Configure authentication for MCP server connections
- Enable and manage MCP tools on an agent
- Module assessment
Who it's for
Advanced makers and professional developers working in Copilot Studio.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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