# @mspowerplatform on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=HHWRehWrnBY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71533268-mspowerplatform-youtube
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-13T17:06:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Microsoft Power Platform (@mspowerplatform) — https://gondola.cc/mspowerplatform

## Caption

Your agent can access data and take action, but how do you make it behave consistently for specific tasks?

In this video from the Agent Academy Recruit NextGen curriculum, you'll learn how to use Skills in Microsoft Copilot Studio to give your agent reusable, task-specific capabilities.

You'll explore how the GitHub Copilot harness uses skills to package instructions, decision logic, tool usage, and response guidance into focused capabilities that can be activated when needed. 

You'll also refine and test skills for device guidance and troubleshooting in the Contoso IT Concierge agent. You'll learn:

* What Skills are and why they're unique to agents powered by the GitHub Copilot harness
* How skills provide reusable, task-specific behavior without relying on traditional Topics
* How the GitHub Copilot harness uses the structure of a SKILL.md file, including name, description, metadata, and instructions to determine when a skill should be activated
* Best practices for authoring effective skill instructions, including decision points, tool usage, validation rules, and expected outputs
* How to improve skills by refining the instructions and testing its behavior in Preview Continue through the complete Agent Academy 

Recruit NextGen curriculum and build Copilot Studio agents using the GitHub Copilot harness: https://aka.ms/agent-academy/recruit-nextgen

Mission 06: Add Skills - https://microsoft.github.io/agent-academy/recruit-nextgen/06-add-skills/

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 What is a skill
1:43 The four parts of a skill
2:28 Ten principles for strong instructions
3:54 The four questions strong skills answer
4:30 Lab - Use case and prerequisites
5:16 Lab - 6.1 Create a device request skill and test
11:07 Lab - 6.2 Create a troubleshooting skill and test
13:09 What you learned and what's next

#MicrosoftCopilot #CopilotStudio #PowerPlatform #AIAgents #AgentAcademy

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## Tags

microsoftcopilot, aiagents, copilotstudio, agentacademy, powerplatform

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