Skill Buddy: A Hands-On Tour of Skills in the New Copilot Studio

Michael Heath

Copilot Studio’s new agent builder introduced support for skills, reusable, markdown-based instructions that load on demand instead of living crammed into a single instructions box. This session uses Skill Buddy, a real community project built around a Copilot Studio agent, a SharePoint Skills Catalog, and a Canvas app, to show what skills actually look like in practice and why they’re a better pattern than the old one-agent-does-everything approach.

You’re Flying Blind: Building Real Observability for Your Copilot Studio Agents

Scott Yokiel

You’ve deployed Copilot Studio agents. You know they’re running. But do you actually know which LLMs are being called, what it’s costing you, which agents are escalating too often, or whether your token spend is going to the right places?

In this session, Scott walks through an open-source project he built to answer exactly those questions — a telemetry layer that pulls data from Azure Monitor, App Insights, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, and more, stores it in a local SQLite database, and produces a 30-sheet analytical workbook covering agent invocations, connector health, credit consumption, and AI model call patterns.