Operative — intermediate course
Agent Academy Operative course guide — 12 missions that build a hiring automation scenario (Hiring Agent) from start to finish with Copilot Studio.
Translated article — This article is based on Operative from the Copilot Studio Agent Academy. The original wording takes precedence.
Operative is the intermediate course in Agent Academy. If the Recruit course helped you learn the fundamentals of Copilot Studio, the Operative course takes you through a complete real-world business scenario from start to finish: building a hiring automation system (Hiring Agent) based on Microsoft Dataverse.
Starting with foundational infrastructure deployment, you will work through instructions, multi-agent orchestration, automated triggers, model selection, AI safety and content moderation, multimodal prompts, Dataverse grounding, document generation, MCP server integration, and user feedback collection. The course consists of 11 hands-on missions and one completion mission.
Missions covered in this course
| # | Mission | Key content |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get started (deploy the Hiring Agent) | Solution import, sample data, Hiring Agent creation |
| 2 | Write agent instructions | Accurate agent communication and behavior control |
| 3 | Multi-agent system | Extend a single agent into an orchestrated multi-agent system |
| 4 | Add event triggers | Implement event-based autonomous behavior |
| 5 | Understand agent models | Model selection and response format customization |
| 6 | AI safety and content moderation | Enterprise-grade safety and compliance measures |
| 7 | Multimodal prompts | Resume document and image extraction |
| 8 | Dataverse grounding | Accurate responses grounded in enterprise data |
| 9 | Document generation | Automatically generate interview question documents |
| 10 | MCP server integration | Integrate built-in MCP servers |
| 11 | Collect user feedback | Collect and process feedback with Adaptive Cards |
| 🏅 | Request completion badge | Operative badge issuance process |
Follow the missions in order and the hiring automation scenario expands one step at a time. If you have already completed the Recruit course, continue from here.