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Microsoft publishes a reusable Skill-authoring lab for business workflows
Focus: Agents for Everyone
Date: October 23, 2026
Topics: Skill authoring, Workflow reuse, Maker testing
Evidence: Publisher Authored
Availability: Available
Summary: Microsoft’s updated 30-minute Copilot Agents Lab teaches makers to attach, inspect and test an existing Skill, call it from a workflow, or generate one from a business process. Examples cover guided project intake and supplier-proposal comparison. The lab emphasizes scoped instructions, supporting files, explicit outputs and iterative testing before reuse.
Why it matters: You will learn a reusable noncoding procedure: choose one stable business process, collect approved examples, generate a Skill, inspect its files and instructions, test normal and adverse cases, compare the artifact with source evidence, correct failures and version the result.
Source: Skills and Skill Authoring