Designing effective agents
- By Lisa Crosbie
- 2/25/2026
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.
