Build the Parts of Your Agent Once, Not Once per Copilot Surface
Microsoft keeps adding places where an agent can live. The agent holds its parts together, so build the parts to move, and check whether a new surface is needed at all.
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Stephan Bisser
Writing about Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI Agents, Copilot Studio and Conversational AI.
Practical notes on Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio and the engineering reality of AI agents in the enterprise. Written since 2017 from Graz, Austria.
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Your Agent Is Only as Reliable as Its Harness
The model is the brain, the harness is everything else: instructions, tools, memory, permissions, approvals, logs and stop rules. Why the harness, not the model, runs the tool calls and decides whether an agent works.
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Building a Second Brain That Actually Works with Copilot Cowork as the Librarian
How I built a personal Second Brain in OneDrive with PARA and Copilot Cowork that handles the hardest part: routing every note to the right place automatically.
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Why Most Copilot Agent Projects Fail Before They Ship
Most agent projects don't fail because of the tech. They fail because of unrealistic expectations, bad data, and wrong platform choices.
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Agent Governance Is the Next Big Bottleneck
No governance doesn't mean chaos — it means IT blocks everything. My framework for the six pillars of agent governance.
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Testing AI Agents Is a Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About
Everyone is building agents, but almost nobody is testing them properly. My take on new testing categories, tooling, and why ALM for agents is overdue.
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The Agentic Organization — When Agents Become Part of the Team
The next step isn't better agents — it's agents as teammates. My 5-stage maturity model for the journey to an agentic organization.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility
Declarative agents, plugins, architecture and ROI. Includes the seven-part Copilot for Microsoft 365 series.20 posts
AI agents and Copilot Studio
Building, instructing and shipping agents, from Agent Builder to deep reasoning and autonomous capabilities.11 posts
Governance, testing and harnesses
What makes agents reliable in the enterprise: governance pillars, testing categories, maturity models.2 posts
Conversational AI archive, 2017 to 2021
Bot Framework, LUIS, QnA Maker and Composer. Kept for reference, marked where products were retired.28 posts
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Book and courses Go deeper: my book and video courses
The blog covers what is new. The book and the courses walk you through it step by step.
Book · Apress 2021
Microsoft Conversational AI Platform for Developers
End-to-End Chatbot Development from Planning to Deployment
How to plan, build, test and ship chatbots and assistants on the Microsoft conversational AI stack, from design to deployment.
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Copilot Studio: Agents mit Standard Harness erstellenEinen eigenen Agent in Copilot Studio erstellen, mit Wissen und Aktionen erweitern, testen, optimieren und veröffentlichen.
Eigene Agenten mit dem Microsoft 365 Agents SDK bauenMit dem Microsoft 365 Agents SDK professionelle Agenten entwickeln, testen und in Microsoft Teams sowie Web Chat integrieren.
Copilot Declarative Agents mit Copilot Agent Builder bauenMit Declarative Agents und dem Agent Builder eine neue digitale Arbeitsweise gestalten.
All 5 courses on LinkedIn Learning
Short, hands-on video courses on the Microsoft AI stack. Included in LinkedIn Premium and many company licences.
Copilot Studio: Agents mit Standard Harness erstellenEinen eigenen Agent in Copilot Studio erstellen, mit Wissen und Aktionen erweitern, testen, optimieren und veröffentlichen.
Eigene Agenten mit dem Microsoft 365 Agents SDK bauenMit dem Microsoft 365 Agents SDK professionelle Agenten entwickeln, testen und in Microsoft Teams sowie Web Chat integrieren.
Copilot Declarative Agents mit Copilot Agent Builder bauenMit Declarative Agents und dem Agent Builder eine neue digitale Arbeitsweise gestalten.