Skills in Copilot Studio

Reusable instruction files you write once and add to any Copilot Studio agent.

A skill is a name, a description, and a set of Markdown instructions telling the agent how to handle one kind of task
The orchestration runtime activates a skill by matching the user's request against the skill's description, so the description is what makes it fire at the right moment
Skills sit apart from tools and knowledge: tools call outside services, knowledge is data to reference, and a skill is self-contained instructions
You can write them in Copilot Studio or any text editor, then export as a Markdown file or a ZIP package carrying supporting scripts and templates
Runs on the GitHub Copilot harness, which bills in Copilot Credits for using, building, testing, and evaluating

Standardizing how agents handle a recurring task across a whole team

Several agents need the same behavior and you are tired of pasting the same instructions into each one

Anyone building more than one agent in Copilot Studio

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