Designing effective agents

Skills review

In this chapter, you learned how to:

  • Choose between building a stand-alone agent or extending Microsoft 365 Copilot, and align your use case to a conversational agent, autonomous agent, or multi-agent system.

  • Select the right orchestration model for your agent.

  • Design your agent’s core capabilities, planning for scope, tools, knowledge, logic, topics, and fallback.

  • Understand how messages are used to calculate consumption costs for your agent.