MS-4010: Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with Declarative Agents by Using Visual Studio Code

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in building declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot with Visual Studio Code, knowledge sources, actions, authentication, testing, deployment, and governance. The learning path progresses from planning and essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, instructor-led demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Each topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals build dependable skills, explain their decisions, identify failure points, and create an actionable improvement plan that can be applied to future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain agent components, manifests, project structure, tooling, environments, and prerequisites
• Set up Visual Studio Code and create a maintainable declarative-agent project
• Write clear agent instructions, conversation starters, scope, and expected behavior
• Connect approved knowledge sources and test grounding, permissions, relevance, and citations
• Define actions with API descriptions, parameters, responses, errors, and user confirmation
• Configure authentication, authorization, secrets, consent, and least-privilege access
• Debug manifests, requests, responses, permissions, grounding, and user-experience issues
• Package, deploy, monitor, version, document, govern, and improve the agent

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.