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What if you never hand-edited a manifest again? What if you described the agent you wanted and a coding agent scaffolded it, wired it up, and deployed it while you watched? That is the demo. Watch the walkthrough, then skim the recap below.
▶ Using coding agents to build your Copilot Chat declarative agent on the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community channel. Open on YouTube.
What you’ll see
A coding agent armed with Agents Toolkit skills knows the schemas, conventions, and CLI flags, so it can build a declarative agent from natural language. This walkthrough goes from an empty folder to a deployed agent without manual authoring.
- Agents Toolkit skills that give the coding agent real expertise
- Reading requirements straight from a Teams conversation
- Scaffolding, wiring MCP, generating instructions, and validating the setup
- Deploying from an empty folder with a human reviewing, not typing
The takeaway: this is the meta workflow. It works because pro-code discipline and skills make the coding agent’s output correct, not just plausible.
Resources
Have questions or want to share what you're building? Connect with me on LinkedIn or check out more on The Manifest.