Captain's Training: Master Copilot Studio | Use the New Harness, MCPs and More
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Copilot Studio is an agent platform that demos three runtimes and centers on the new GitHub Copilot harness which handles complex multi step tasks by chaining parallel tool calls and running an agentic loop that act observe replan until success or escalation. The talk shows concrete building blocks — instructions knowledge MCP servers skills memory workflows — and a live demo where the harness uses a sandbox to run Python, clean a 100‑row CSV, create pivot dashboards, write to SharePoint and send workflow emails, and recover from failed calls.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to Copilot Studio
- 1:24Choosing the right tool for agents
- 3:10What is a harness in Copilot Studio
- 5:57GitHub Copilot harness explained
- 9:48Live demo of new harness
- 15:44Building blocks of an agent
- 18:52Model Context Protocol servers
- 21:41Skills and maintainability
- 23:48Memories and personalization
- 24:51Sandbox for precision tasks
- 25:53Demo of inventory analysis
- 29:21Pre-flight checks before deployment
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