# @mspowerplatform on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Xf4FGY_MpI
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-07T14:00:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Microsoft Power Platform (@mspowerplatform) — https://gondola.cc/mspowerplatform

## Caption

When should you use Copilot Studio instead of Agent Builder—and which agent harness should you choose? 

In this episode of Agent Academy Recruit NextGen, April Dunnam walks through the Copilot Studio fundamentals you need before building your first agent. Explore the Copilot Chat, Standard, and GitHub Copilot harnesses, then get a tour of the building blocks that shape your agent’s behavior: instructions, models, knowledge, tools, skills, memory, and connected agents.

In this video, you’ll learn:

* How Copilot Studio fits into Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Azure
* When to use Agent Builder vs. Copilot Studio
* How to choose a harness using an IT support scenario
* How the agentic loop plans, acts, observes, and adjusts
* How knowledge sources, connectors, MCP servers, and skills fit together
* Where Work IQ, workflows, and connected agents come into play
* What to adjust when your agent isn’t delivering the results you expect

Continue watching the Agent Academy Recruit NextGen series as we move from understanding agents to building them! https://aka.ms/agent-academy/recruit-nextgen

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Copilot Studio in the Microsoft ecosystem
01:43 Agent Builder vs. Copilot Studio
03:04 Choosing an agent harness
03:56 GitHub Copilot harness explained
04:14 IT support example: Which harness fits?
05:19 How the agentic loop works
06:23 Agent building blocks and instructions
07:20 Knowledge sources and grounding
08:42 Skills and the role-matching example
09:49 Work IQ and organizational context
10:28 When to use workflows
11:51 Troubleshooting agent behavior
12:41 Wrap-up and what’s next

#CopilotStudio #AgentAcademy #MicrosoftCopilot #MicrosoftCopilot #CopilotStudio #PowerPlatform #AIAgents #AgentAcademy

## Stats

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## Tags

microsoftcopilot, aiagents, copilotstudio, agentacademy, powerplatform

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