· 8 min
Creating Declarative Agents with WIQD: From Idea to Code
WIQD turns declarative agent creation into a conversation. Describe the agent, get an opinionated project with externalized instructions and live diagnostics.
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Guides, deep dives, and opinions on building declarative agents, API plugins, and everything M365 Copilot extensibility.
· 9 min
Work IQ Developer Tools for Copilot Plugins and Agents
WIQD turns plugin work into a conversation: describe the MCP capability you want, and the tooling handles discovery, validation, provisioning, and evals.
· 10 min
Dynamic Client Registration for MCP Plugins
Dynamic client registration lets MCP plugins negotiate OAuth clients through a dedicated DCR auth configuration, removing the manual client ID and secret setup from the Copilot plugin workflow.
· 9 min
Dynamic Tool Discovery for MCP Plugins
Dynamic tool discovery lets Microsoft 365 Copilot resolve MCP server tools at runtime, so new capabilities can appear without repackaging and republishing the agent.
· 6 min
Meeting Actions: Let Declarative Agents Run the Calendar
The MeetingActions capability in manifest v1.8 lets declarative agents schedule events, create time-finding polls, and surface calendar time insights.
· 6 min
Email Actions: Let Declarative Agents Manage the Inbox
The EmailActions capability in manifest v1.8 gives declarative agents write access to email: triage, supervised send, inbox rules, and folder management.
· 3 min
This Month In Declarative Agents: Agents Stopped Just Talking
June was when declarative agents got interactive UI. MCP Apps put real widgets in Copilot chat, and one MCP server now lights up every Copilot surface.
· 2 min
Using Coding Agents to Build Declarative Agents
A video walkthrough of using Agents Toolkit skills and a coding agent to scaffold, wire MCP, generate instructions, validate, and deploy a declarative agent.
· 2 min
Publishing and Governing Declarative Agents at Scale
A video walkthrough of moving a declarative agent from local development to org-wide publishing, admin approval, distribution, and CI/CD automation.
· 2 min
Testing and Debugging Your Declarative Agent
A video walkthrough of developer mode, debug cards, capability tracing, and versioning to test and troubleshoot a Copilot Chat declarative agent.
· 8 min
Conditional Conversation Starters for Declarative Agents
Manifest schema v1.7 adds depends_on to conversation starters, so prompts only show up when the capabilities they need are configured.
· 2 min
Connecting Declarative Agents into an Ecosystem
A video walkthrough of composing an agent ecosystem: worker agents that split broad scenarios into focused specialists you can reuse across teams.