Curated paths
Copilot Studio Agents have skills now
Copilot Studio's new authoring experience gives agents Skills. Reusable, on-demand expertise built on the open Agent Skills format. This is my hands-on tour in three parts: what a skill actually is and the quiet risk of installing ones you never read, how to govern skills so they speed your team up instead of slowing it down, and how to build your own from scratch. Concrete, beginner-friendly, and built the governable way.
AI-assisted app development
AI can scaffold a Power App in an afternoon. What it can't do is own the result — that's still you. The build surface you pick is a governance decision, the design contract is your control surface, and the boring parts AI skips are the ones that bite. AI accelerates the job. It doesn't shrink your responsibility.
Governance is the enabler, not the brake
Govern AI agents without becoming the department that says no. It starts with the principle: match the control to the risk, and contain experiments rather than hunting them down afterwards. Then the gap — the Power Platform governance you already have stops where your agents start. Then a three-zone model that gives every agent somewhere to live and a clear path to grow. And finally the decision process: score agents at intake, pre-approve the obvious cases, and save human judgement for the ones that need it.