How to Build Better Skills in Copilot Studio

If you are building in the new Copilot Studio experience, then you are getting ready to implement some skills. This video covers skills best practices in Copilot Studio: when something should stay in instructions when it should become a skill why reusable capability matters more than just adding structure how to keep an agent easier to maintain over time The core idea is simple: instructions are for behavior that should always apply, and skills are for reusable methods the agent should discover when needed. If that is something you are working through, this video should help. Link, Skill to Create Skills: https://github.com/AndyHess123/Copilo... Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:50 How to View your Skills 3:43 Best Practices 5:45 Instructions 7:09 Skills are Packages 8:30 Demo Using Python 9:25 Conclusion #CopilotStudio #MicrosoftCopilot #AIBuilder #AgenticAI #PromptEngineering