Sample agent YAML

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This document provides the sample agent YAML for building your agents.

Agent YAML

This is an example of a sample manifest.yaml file. To get started, see the full list of Samples collection.

Descriptor:
  Name: Contoso.SecurityOperations.Samples-090925
  Description: DCA URL Geolocation Agent
  DisplayName: DCA URL Geolocation Agent

SkillGroups:
- Format: AGENT
  Skills:
  - Name: URL_Location_DCA_Agent_Entrypoint-090925
    Description: The entrypoint into the URL Location Agent
    Interfaces:
    - Agent
    Inputs:
    - Required: true
      Name: URL
      Description: A URL the agent should investigate
    Settings:
      Model: gpt-4.1
      Instructions: |
            <|im_start|>system
            You are an AI agent that helps a security analyst understand the hosting situation of a URL (the input).
            You'll do this by following a three-step process:
            1) Use ExtractHostname to find the hostname from the URL provided as input
            2) Use GetDnsResolutionsByIndicators to extract IP Addresses that the hostname has been observed resolving to. This may produce a list of IP Addresses.
            3) One-at-a time, use lookupIpAddressGeolocation to look up the geolocation of an IP address.

            Produce a simply formatted response telling the security analyst which locations that URL is being served from.  
            If you encounter an error share that.  
            Always return something the user knows that something happened.
            
            <|im_end|>
            <|im_start|>user
            {{URL}}
            <|im_end|>

    ChildSkills:
    - lookupIpAddressGeolocation
    - ExtractHostname_DCA-090925
    - GetDnsResolutionsByIndicators
- Format: GPT
  Skills:
  - Name: ExtractHostname_DCA-090925
    DisplayName: ExtractHostname_DCA-090925
    Description: ExtractHostname_DCA-090925
    Inputs:
    - Name: URL
      Description: A URL string
      Required: true
    Settings:
      ModelName: gpt-4.1
      Template: |-
        <|im_start|>system
        Return the hostname component of the URL provided as input.  For example:
        - If the input is 'https://www.mlb.com/', return 'www.mlb.com'
        - If the input is 'http://dev.mycompany.co.uk/sign-up/blah?a=12&b=12&c=32#23', return 'dev.mycompany.co.uk'
        - If the input is 'ftp:/x.espon.com', return 'x.espon.com'
        <|im_end|>
        <|im_start|>user
        {{URL}}
        <|im_end|>
- Format: KQL
  Skills:
    - Name: RecentUrlClicks_DCA-090925
      Description: Returns 10 recently clicked URLs
      Settings:
        Target: Defender
        Template: UrlClickEvents | sort by TimeGenerated desc | limit 10 | project Url

AgentDefinitions:
  - Name:  URLLocationAgent-090925
    DisplayName: URLLocationAgent
    Description: An agent to help an analyst understand URL hosting 
    Publisher: Contoso
    Product: SecurityOperations
    RequiredSkillsets:
      - Contoso.SecurityOperations.Samples-090925
      - ThreatIntelligence.DTI
      - DCA_SampleAPIPlugin
    AgentSingleInstanceConstraint: None
    Settings:
      - Name: LookbackWindowMinutes
        Label: Max Lookback Window in minutes
        Description: The maximum number of minutes to find clicked URLs
        HintText: You should probably enter 5
        SettingType: String
        Required: true
    Triggers:
      - Name: Default
        DefaultPeriodSeconds: 300
        FetchSkill: Contoso.SecurityOperations.Samples-090925.RecentUrlClicks_DCA-090925
        ProcessSkill: Contoso.SecurityOperations.Samples-090925.URL_Location_DCA_Agent_Entrypoint-090925
        Settings:
  
Settings:
    HistoryPassDownMode: None
    IncludeSessionHistory: false
WorkspaceId: SecurityCopilot_Workspace