The GitHub Copilot Harness in Microsoft Copilot Studio consumes Copilot credits from the moment you start building an agent — unlike the Standard Harness, which is free during design and testing. If you don’t lock down credit settings before makers start experimenting, you risk unplanned consumption across every environment in your organization. The Problem: An…
GitHub Copilot Harness agents burn credits before production. Learn the 5-step process to find, classify, and control them in Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio now prices by harness. Not by seat. Not by agent. Microsoft’s August 2026 Licensing Guide confirms three harnesses, three billing behaviors. Three Harnesses, Three Ways Credits Get Consumed Every agent runs on a harness. A harness is the scaffolding. It lets an agent plan, reason, and act. Copilot Studio ships three: GitHub Copilot…
Your SharePoint dashboard might already be leaking budget numbers to people who can’t even open the list it came from. Here’s the direct answer: Copilot in SharePoint can build two very different dashboard types from the same prompt — a live-linked dashboard and a static dashboard — and only one of them respects your source…
An Agent 365 Autopilot is an AI agent with its own identity inside your Microsoft 365 tenant — its own mailbox, calendar, and spot on the org chart. Unlike a regular Copilot agent published to Teams, an Autopilot acts on its own behalf, not on behalf of a signed-in user. That single distinction changes how…
When agents stop being tools and start being colleagues In this blog post, I’ll show you what happens when you stop treating AI as a chatbot and start hiring it. I sat down with @MichaelGannotti, Principal AI Solution Engineer at @Microsoft from North Carolina, and what he described isn’t a prototype – it’s a small…
When AI Development Went Local: My Snapdragon Epiphany Let’s cut through the hype: Generative AI models once demanded cloud muscle. Now we are facing a new rise of on Premises and LLMs running on local laptops. I have blogged about my favorite use cases for my HP EliteBook Copilot+ PC here. Then came Microsoft’s AI Toolkit…
General Questions What are SharePoint Copilot Agents? SharePoint Copilot Agents are natural language AI assistants connected to SharePoint sites. They provide always-available subject matter expertise by accessing and interpreting content stored within specific SharePoint sites or document libraries. How do SharePoint Copilot Agents work? These agents use AI to analyze and understand content stored in…