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The Power Platform & Copilot Studio Advocacy team has released 2 comprehensive “Agent Development” training courses for Copilot Studio with both instructional content & videos for free!

• Agent Academy: Recruit
  A foundational learning path designed to help makers and developers get started with building agents in Copilot Studio. 
  https://aka.ms/agent-academy-recruit
• Agent Academy: Operative
  The next level of training for people who already understand the basics of Copilot Studio and want to go deeper. It walks through building a complex multi-agent hiring process agent.
  https://aka.ms/agent-academy-operative

If you’re ready to get started learning Copilot Studio Agents, proceed to either the “Recruit” section for beginners or the “Operative” section for folks that know the basics.

• BLOG: Announcing Copilot Studio Agent Academy: “Recruit”
  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/announcing-copilot-studio-agent-academy/
  • TRAINING: Recruit | Agent Academy
    https://microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/recruit/
  • VIDEOS: Copilot Student Agent Academy: Recruit – YouTube
    Master the art of building agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio in this comprehensive course by Power Platform Advocacy. This hands-on training is your entry point into the world of agents: from grounded prompts to Adaptive Cards and agent flows, you’ll learn how to build, scale, and deploy intelligent agents using real-world tools and use cases.
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi9EhCY4z99XP2cKtQXnq9U-II16ae0k_
    
• BLOG: Announcing Agent Academy: “Operative”
  https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/announcing-agent-academy-operative/
  • TRAINING: Operative | Agent Academy
    https://microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/operative/
  • VIDEOS: Copilot Studio Agent Academy | Operative – YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi9EhCY4z99W-fcZpoPuQENDWIT3tUP4M
    • Get started with the Hiring Agent
    • Authoring Agent Instructions
    • Make your agent multi-agent ready with connected agents
    • Add event triggers to act autonomously – Making agents autonomous using event triggers
    • Understanding agent models and response formatting – Choosing between AI models depending on the task
    • AI safety and content moderation – Adding AI safety and content moderation guardrails
    • Extracting resume contents with multi-modal prompts – Multimodal prompts so agents can extract structured data from resumes, PDFs, and images

(Psst. Coming soon for experts: Copilot Studio Agent Academy: “Commander”)