Overview
Every link below was used while authoring this workshop. Each section is grouped by audience: the workshop product family first, then the tooling, then the related Microsoft samples, then the sites and themes this workshop itself runs on.
Copilot Studio product
- Copilot Studio portal — sign-in entry point for all author, publish, and test work.
- Copilot Studio free trial sign-up — work or school account required.
- Microsoft Learn — Microsoft Copilot Studio — overview, concepts, and how-to articles. Used as the knowledge source in Lab 10.
- Microsoft Learn — Test your agent — Test pane reference.
- Microsoft Learn — Review agent activity — activity map reference.
- Microsoft Learn — Licensing and trial requirements — subscription matrix.
Workshop tooling source
microsoft/skills-for-copilot-studio— the plugin installed in Lab 05. README, SETUP_GUIDE, and plugin manifest live here.microsoft/skills-for-copilot-studio/blob/main/SETUP_GUIDE.md— the canonical install guide, including the optional Azure App Registration forCopilotStudio.Copilots.Invokereferenced from Lab 09 and Troubleshooting.microsoft/vscode-copilotstudio— the VS Code extension that ships theLanguageServerHostbinary required by the plugin (installed in Lab 02).- Upstream issue #116 — VS Code Copilot Chat host parity — explains why this workshop uses the VS Code integrated terminal instead of the Copilot Chat side panel.
- Upstream issue #155 — clone-then-push CdsBotId regression — referenced in Troubleshooting.
GitHub Copilot CLI
- GitHub docs — About GitHub Copilot CLI — feature overview.
- GitHub docs — Install GitHub Copilot CLI —
wingetand npm install paths used in Lab 01. - GitHub docs — Use GitHub Copilot CLI —
/login,/plugin, and@sub-agent reference. - GitHub Copilot subscription settings — entry point to confirm subscription status and (if org-managed) ask for the Copilot CLI policy.
Related Microsoft samples
microsoft/CopilotStudioSamples— extensibility / MCP servers — natural follow-on once you understand the YAML loop. Adds an MCP-server-backed action to the agent.microsoft/Agents— Bot Framework Skill samples — for the other kind of “Skill” (one agent calling another). Out of scope for this workshop; recorded here so you know where to look if that becomes the goal.
This workshop’s own infrastructure
- Sibling workshop —
devopsabcs-engineering/agentic-accelerator-workshop— the visual and structural template this workshop mirrors. - Live sibling site — parity reference for layout, sidebar shape, and language-switcher position.
just-the-docs/just-the-docs— the Jekyll remote theme this site uses.- Playwright
storageStatedocumentation — backs the screenshot harness pattern documented in the workshop’sCONTRIBUTING.md. charmbracelet/freeze— terminal-still tool used by the screenshot harness forlab-NN-*.pngterminal captures.