Copilot Studio: Skills and Workflows Challenge

This isn’t a deep dive, and it isn’t an overview of everything new in Copilot Studio. It’s two features, skills and workflows, put to work building something real, hands on, inside Studio and tied into the rest of Power Platform the same way you’d actually use it.

Feature 1: skills

Skill Buddy has skill-author attached, which turns an idea into a real, installable SKILL.md file. In the video I run it live and author a small test skill, name, purpose, trigger, to a confirm point.

Feature 2: workflows

Confirming the skill hands off to the second feature, a workflow. Here’s the node walk:

1. Trigger: When an agent calls the flow. By this point the agent has already decided everything it needs to.
2. Create personal file saves to OneDrive, every run.
3. An If/Else branch reads a share/don’t-share decision the agent already collected.
4. If sharing was chosen: Create File In Share and Update file properties land the file in the Skills Catalog with its metadata set.
5. Respond to the agent sends the confirmation back, in real time, inside a 100 second window.

That’s the whole demo

Two features isn’t everything new in Copilot Studio, it’s not close. But it’s enough to build something real. The Skill Buddy repo is linked below, everything shown here is in it.

Watch the video

Resources

• Skill Buddy repo
• Add tools and skills to an agent
• Add a workflow as a tool to an agent

Michael Heath is a Principal Architect at Myriad360 and runs Get Automating, a channel focused on Copilot Studio and Power Platform automation.