Design agent conversations and responses using topics in Microsoft Copilot Studio

At a glance

Learn to design and configure conversational agent behavior in Copilot Studio. Design conversations using topics, deliver rich responses using Adaptive Cards, take action from conversations using tools, and generate AI-powered answers using generative answers and custom prompts.

Prerequisites

  • Ability to create and publish an agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • Access to Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • Permissions to create solutions and agents in a Power Platform environment

Modules in this learning path

Learn to configure rich agent responses in Microsoft Copilot Studio using message formatting and Adaptive Cards—covering informational and interactive card patterns, the built-in designer and JSON authoring, and channel-specific rendering considerations.

Learn how to extend agent topics in Microsoft Copilot Studio to take action in external systems — calling tools, invoking agent flows, and configuring HTTP request nodes to retrieve and send data to external REST APIs.

Learn how to configure AI-powered responses in Microsoft Copilot Studio agent topics. This module covers the generative answers node, connecting custom knowledge sources, using custom instructions to shape AI output, and authoring custom prompts with model selection from the Microsoft Foundry model catalog.