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The Video Walkthroughs
Curated learning path • 9 posts
Watch every step of building a Copilot Chat declarative agent with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit: scaffolding, capabilities, grounding, actions, and deployment.
Prefer to watch someone build it end to end? These posts pair each recorded walkthrough from the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community with a quick summary, so you can follow along from an empty folder to a deployed, governed declarative agent. Start with scaffolding your first agent, then layer on capabilities, knowledge, actions, and the practices that make an agent production-ready.
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Creating Your First Copilot Chat Declarative Agent
Watch the full walkthrough of scaffolding your first Copilot Chat declarative agent with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, from empty folder to deployed persona.
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Configuring Copilot Chat Declarative Agent Capabilities
A video walkthrough of adding embedded knowledge, the code interpreter, and image generation to turn a basic declarative agent into a capable assistant.
- 3· 2 min
Grounding Declarative Agents with Microsoft 365 Data
A video walkthrough of grounding a declarative agent in real Microsoft 365 data: SharePoint, Teams conversations, email, and people knowledge.
- 4· 2 min
Extending Declarative Agents with API Plugins and MCP
A video walkthrough of adding actions to a declarative agent with API plugins and MCP, moving beyond read-only answers to create, update, and retrieve data.
- 5· 2 min
Advanced Manifest Capabilities for Declarative Agents
A video walkthrough of advanced manifest options: disclaimers, behavior overrides, and environment configuration for more polished, governed declarative agents.
- 6· 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.
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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· 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.
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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.