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Agent Academy Spring Drop: Special Ops, Cowork Collective, and a Whole New Look
We've shipped a big round of updates to Agent Academy. Two new sections, a completely redone site experience, and more missions on the way. Here's what's changed. Quick recap for anyone new Agent Academy is a free, open-source curriculum for learning how to build agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Since launching in August 2025, it has crossed one million views, which tells us the community is hungry for guided, hands-on content around building and using agents. Agent Academy features three ranks of full courses covering building agents with Copilot Studio: Recruit covers the fundamentals of Copilot Studio,...
Dataverse Skills: Your Coding Agent Now Speaks Dataverse
Building enterprise solutions is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Instead of stitching together APIs, CLIs, and scripts, developers are increasingly describing intent and letting agents execute. For enterprise platforms like Dataverse, this creates a new requirement: they must be operable by agents, not just by humans. Today we’re releasing Dataverse Skills — an open-source plugin for coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code that gives them deep, practical knowledge of how to build and manage Dataverse solutions end to end. What used to require juggling tools and documentation can now ...
Announcing Agent Academy: Operative
Earlier this year, we launched Agent Academy: Recruit, a foundational learning path designed to help makers and developers get started with building agents in Copilot Studio. The response exceeded our expectations. Since launch, thousands of learners have worked through the Recruit curriculum, and through the Global AI Community we’ve issued 500+ badges to people who finished the path. More importantly, we’ve seen teams use Recruit as a shared baseline for learning how agents work, how to build them responsibly, and how to deploy them into real environments. As people completed Recruit, the feedback was consist...
Announcing Copilot Studio Agent Academy: Your Mission Starts Now
Welcome to Copilot Studio Agent Academy Whether you're just starting your journey with AI agents or looking to sharpen your skills in Microsoft Copilot Studio, we've got your mission briefing ready and it's time to suit up! We're thrilled to introduce Copilot Studio Agent Academy, a new, self-paced curriculum designed to help makers, developers, and AI-curious professionals learn how to build real, useful agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio. No more theoretical fluff. No more "someday I'll figure this out." This is your chance to actually build something that works. Why We Built It Copilot Studio makes it p...
Introducing Plan Validation in Copilot Studio Kit
Ever wonder why your agent's answers can be right but for the wrong reasons? Let's dive into why that matters, with a brief foray into epistemology (bear with me!) Knowledge: More Than Just Right Answers Imagine asking someone the time, and they confidently reply, “2:30 PM.” They're correct—but what if their watch stopped exactly 12 hours ago, and they just happened to get lucky? This illustrates a classic philosophical point: the difference between a true belief and a justified true belief. And no, this isn’t just a theoretical curiosity (yes, philosophy folks are sensitive about that critique). In practice, ...
Power Platform API and SDKs: From UX-First to API-First
Historically, Power Platform has empowered administrators through the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC). This UX-first experience offered a seamless, intuitive interface for managing environments, automating everyday tasks, and discovering new capabilities within the platform. Today, we’re taking a bold step forward. We’re transforming Power Platform into an API-first ecosystem—where every feature in PPAC is backed by a well-documented, publicly accessible API. This evolution unlocks intelligent copilots, scalable automation, and enterprise-grade management experiences that are more accessible than ever before....
Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP
Ever wished your AI agents could tap into live data or execute actions beyond their built-in capabilities? Enter Model Context Protocol (MCP)—a game-changer for integrating external tools and data sources directly into your Copilot Studio agents. 🧠 What is MCP? Think of MCP as a universal adapter for AI applications. It standardizes how AI models access external tools, APIs, and knowledge bases. By leveraging MCP, you can: 🔄 MCP vs. Connectors: Better Together You might be wondering: When should I use MCP, and when should I use traditional connectors? Will MCP replace connectors? MCP servers are made a...
Announcing the ‘Work with Power Fx functions’ Learning Path
Based on community feedback, we’ve added a new learning path: Work with Power Fx functions. Check it out!
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together
The 2025 Powerful Devs Hack Together brought developers together to build secure and scalable AI-powered solutions using Power Platform, Azure, AI Builder, and more. If you missed the event, you can still catch up on all the sessions covering AI, automation, security, extensibility, and more! 🎥 Watch here: aka.ms/powerfuldevs/ondemand Technologies Used in the Hackathon We loved seeing developers use so many different technologies to build their hack. Developers built projects using: ✔ Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio) ✔ Azure Services & AI Foundry ✔ Microsoft 365 ...
