Designing and coding agents in Business Central (preview)

Explore tools for designing and testing AI agents in Business Central.

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Overview

• Designing and coding agents
• Responsible AI transparency note for AI development toolkit

How-To Guide

• Create an agent
• Write effective instructions for an agent
• Attachment capabilities and limitations
• Set up agent permissions and profiles
• Run an agent
• Iterate and test an agent
• Export and import an agent
• Understand agent visibility
• Agent frequently asked questions

Reference

• Integrate with the Tasks AL API
• Instruction keywords for an agent

Videos

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• Design and code agents in Business Central (video)

Develop with the AI development toolkit

Reference

• Coding agents in AL
• Define and register an agent programmatically
• Agent setup and configuration
• Managing agent tasks programmatically
• The ConfigurationDialog page type
• Work with agents in AL
• Convert an agent created in the UI to code

Evaluate and test agents

How-To Guide

• Evaluation overview
• Write agent tests
• Create datasets for evaluation
• Test the Copilot capability in AL

Best practices

Overview

• Best practices for designing and building with the AI development toolkit

Demos and samples

sample

• Create a Sales Validation Agent
• Sample extension in BCTech GitHub repo

Resources

Reference

• Microsoft responsible AI
• Azure AI Foundry portal for quick experimentation
• Microsoft Azure learning courses on responsible AI

Get inspiration from Copilot in Business Central

Overview

• Copilot & AI capabilities in Business Central
• Marketing text suggestions
• Bank account reconciliation assist

Community

sample

• Community guidelines