Curated guides, prompts, agent skills, governance and endpoint resources for Microsoft 365 Copilot and its agents.
Maintained by Deep Shah. Everything here is checked by a human before it is added. Corrections are welcome.
Official documentation
- Microsoft 365 Copilot documentation - The main Microsoft Learn hub for admins and users.
- Copilot Control System - Overview of the controls for securing, managing and measuring Copilot and agents.
- What’s new for Microsoft 365 Copilot developers - Monthly changelog for extensibility features.
- Microsoft Learn samples gallery - Searchable code samples across Microsoft products.
- Microsoft 365 Developer on YouTube - Official videos for Copilot extensibility.
Security and governance
- Microsoft 365 Copilot oversharing blueprint - Step-by-step guidance to find and fix oversharing before and after rollout (PDF).
- Secure and govern Copilot foundations - Foundational deployment guidance for security and governance.
- Configure a secure and governed data foundation - Data-protection setup to complete before enabling Copilot.
- Microsoft Purview documentation - Sensitivity labels, DLP and compliance controls that Copilot respects.
- Purview secure by default - A deployment model for protecting data by default.
- SharePoint Advanced Management - Site-level controls and reports used to reduce oversharing.
- Zero Trust Assessment - Open-source assessment of a tenant’s Zero Trust posture.
Adoption and readiness
- Copilot Success Kit - Microsoft’s adoption playbooks, templates and training material.
- Scenario Library - Role-based Copilot scenarios with success measures.
- Sample solution gallery - Ready-made solutions filtered to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing explained - Practical overview of license options and gotchas.
Prompts
- Copilot Prompt Gallery - Microsoft’s built-in library of prompts by app and role (docs).
- Export prompts from the gallery - How admins export prompt content.
- CIAOPS prompt posts - Community prompt collections from an MVP.
- Prompts in this repo - Original prompts for admins and security teams.
Agents and extensibility
- Work IQ MCP overview - Use Microsoft 365 work data through Model Context Protocol.
- Microsoft Agent 365 - Microsoft’s control plane for registering and governing agents.
- Add skills to declarative agents - Preview guidance for packaging agent skills.
- Add skills in Agent Builder - Upload skills to agents built in Agent Builder.
- Customize Copilot Cowork - Add your own skills to Cowork.
- Copilot Cowork skills lab - Hands-on lab for writing Cowork skills.
- Modern Copilot Studio agent skills - Copilot Studio team post on skills for agents.
- Agent Skills specification - The open SKILL.md format shared by several assistants.
Samples and tools
- Copilot Studio Samples - Official samples site (GitHub).
- copilot-pro-dev-samples - Community samples for declarative agents and plugins from PnP.
- Microsoft Teams samples - Teams app and agent samples.
- agentsbestpractices - Best-practice notes for building agents.
Scripts and automation
- Find inactive Copilot users - Script walkthrough for reclaiming unused licenses; some readers report Graph audit errors, so test first.
- Original skills in this repo - Skills that guide an assistant through readiness, oversharing and licence reviews.
Agent skills
Skills use the open SKILL.md format, so the same folder can work in several assistants. See skills/README.md for how to install them in Copilot Cowork, Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, declarative agents, Claude, Gemini CLI and Codex.
Updates
Changes that affect admins and builders are logged in UPDATES.md.
Community
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Connection - Newsletter covering monthly Copilot changes.
- A Guide to Cloud - Blog with monthly Copilot update summaries.
See CONTRIBUTING.md to add a resource.