Curated articles from The Custom Engine (CAT) blog, newest first.
How GitHub Copilot harness agents use SharePoint metadata to find applicable documents, scope knowledge search, and answer without hand-built routing logic.
Use the Power Platform API to retrieve daily Copilot Credit consumption per agent, persist it in Dataverse, and build tenant-wide dashboards.
Understand how Work IQ is used, when Copilot Credits apply, and how to configure controls in the Microsoft 365 and Power Platform admin centers.
How to use Agent Review Tool before releasing Copilot Studio agents to investigate review findings, understand Skill quality, and inspect relationships between components.
How to discover GitHub Copilot harness agents, classify their environments, and use Power Platform controls to manage Copilot Credit consumption during maker development and production use.
A Copilot Studio Skill that turns documents, emails, and press releases into a podcast episode with two hosts in conversation — from multi-voice SSML and Azure Text to Speech to listening on your phone.
How the Copilot Studio agent sandbox turns model reasoning into executable work such as real file generation and calculations, and how it safely manages external access.
A look at how a redlining Skill that compares documents using Microsoft Word Track Changes was implemented on the new Copilot Studio orchestrator.
Watch an end-to-end video walkthrough of migrating a classic agent to modern orchestration using the Copilot Studio plugin and GitHub Copilot CLI.
Why a recent redirect change made classic agent creation more visible to baseline license users, and the single service plan to disable if you want to prevent it.
Introducing three resources to help you understand the concepts in the new Copilot Studio experience, see them in action, and migrate existing classic agents.
How Skills work in modern Copilot Studio agents — instructions and resources loaded on demand for specific scenarios, why instructions should be modularized into Skills, and when to separate Skills from instructions.
How the Power Platform admin control 'Require Microsoft authentication for agents' solves the identity boundary problem for internal employee-facing agents that DLP channel blocking could not address.
The core of application lifecycle management (ALM) for Copilot Studio agents: a safe baseline built on environments, solutions, publishers, and pipelines.
How to implement page-level PDF citations in Copilot Studio with SharePoint and uploaded-file knowledge sources so users can jump directly to the exact page that grounded an answer.
An end-to-end guide to connecting a Snowflake-managed MCP server to a Copilot Studio agent using delegated user OAuth through Microsoft Entra ID.