Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Advanced — Multi-Agent Systems, Evaluation & Release

For builders who take Copilot Studio agents to production. Learners split work across child and connected agents, tune generative orchestration, add autonomous triggers with guardrails and agent flows with human approval, measure quality with evaluation test sets, ship through pipelines and handle incidents. Ends with an evaluated multi-agent help desk released through a pipeline.

What this course covers

The course runs across 10 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

One agent or a team of agents? — Start with one agent and split only when a part needs its own tools or knowledge, different owners or controls, or reuse across agents. Too many choices make orchestration worse, and every extra agent adds delay and testing. Learners sort six requests into main agent, child agent or connected agent.
Building child and connected agents — Add a child agent with its own instructions, tools and knowledge, then connect a published agent from the same environment that allows connections. Write specific descriptions, decide whether to pass conversation history, and make the main agent the only one that replies. External agents such as A2A are noted.
Tuning generative orchestration — The planner picks tools, topics and agents mostly by name and description, so rename vague ones, remove overlaps and disable tools that aren't needed. Describe inputs so missing values get asked for, return outputs as variables, and use the activity map to see each decision. Change one thing at a time.
Autonomous agents with event triggers — Add an event trigger from the Overview page, such as a new SharePoint item or a recurrence, narrow it with parameters and write payload instructions. Triggers need generative orchestration and don't fire until you publish, so test first with Test trigger and the activity map, then follow runs on the Activity page.
Guardrails for agents that act on their own — Triggers and their connections run with the maker's credentials, so users could reach data through them. Learners choose least-privilege connections, narrow triggers, keep sensitive payload data out of outputs, require human approval for consequential actions, and plan for capacity use and admin data policies.
Agent flows with a human in the loop — Build an agent flow the agent calls as a tool, using the When an agent calls the flow trigger. Keep business rules in deterministic steps, add an approval or request for information where a person must decide, and return clear outputs. Flows live in solutions; converting a cloud flow can't be undone.
Evaluation: test sets that catch regressions — Building on the Testing playbook, make evaluation a release gate: cover multi-step and out-of-scope cases, combine General quality, Compare meaning with a pass score and Tool use for expected tools, set a pass bar, compare runs after every change and start runs from a pipeline. Evaluations run as the signed-in user.
Shipping with solutions and pipelines — Put the agent, flows and connection references in a custom solution, use environment variables for values that change, and deploy dev to test to production with a Power Platform pipeline as a managed solution. Redo settings that don't travel in solutions, and know how to redeploy an earlier version.
Monitoring and handling incidents — Read the Monitor page: outcomes, themes and satisfaction for conversations; run outcomes, trigger and tool use for autonomous runs. Turn bad themes into test cases. When something breaks, contain it by disabling a trigger or child agent or rolling back, then find the cause and add a regression test.
Capstone: an evaluated multi-agent help desk, shipped — Ship a small multi-agent help desk: a main agent with a child and a connected agent, an autonomous triage trigger with an approval flow, a regression test set with a pass bar run before and after a change, a pipeline release plan with rollback, and the Monitor signals you will watch in week one.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

Software developers and technical builders. The material is pitched at advanced level, and takes roughly 150 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Microsoft Copilot track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including branching scenario, guided lab exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a tool assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

All Microsoft Copilot training courses →
Microsoft Copilot: Advanced — Power Workflows & Automation — This course fills the step between everyday fluency and building on the platform: running Microsoft Copilot at an expert level without writing code. Learners design multi-step workflows, automate recurring work with agents, Copilot notebooks, and cross-app flows, and set personal systems that compound over weeks. They finish as the person on the team others come to for Microsoft Copilot technique.
Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Mastery — Extending Copilot — Extend Copilot with current connectors, declarative agents/API actions and Teams integrations, backed by code-enforced authorization and tenant governance
Microsoft Copilot: Mastery — Leading Work with Copilot — Lead reliable work with Microsoft Copilot through delegation, description, discernment and diligence. Package expertise, verify outputs, supervise available tools and measure impact without a technical background
Microsoft Copilot: Core — Agents & Cross-App Work — Use available Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 apps for grounded cross-app work, Pages/notebooks and simple no-code agents; approved access and upload paths without developer setup
Microsoft Copilot for Developers: Core — Copilot Studio & Agents — Build and test Copilot Studio agents with scoped knowledge, actions/flows, validation, authentication boundaries and governed release
Microsoft Copilot for Developers Pathway — Microsoft Copilot for developers and technical builders: your first Microsoft 365 Copilot agent with Agent Builder, Copilot Studio and the Agents Toolkit (Essentials); Copilot Studio agents, topics, actions and ALM (Core); multi-agent systems, evaluation and release pipelines (Advanced); and extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with connectors, declarative agents and API plugins, with guardrails enforced in code (Mastery). Also includes 4 optional playbooks (Testing, Code Review, Refactoring & Migration, Docs & Onboarding) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate. GitHub Copilot has its own pathway.

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 150 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-COP-DEV-251.