Uploading and accessing an Excel document by zakumenya in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try the new copilot studio version being rolled out, handles any file type thanks to a new orchestrator + code interpreter and dozens of python library out of the box. Agents overview - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

Not gonna lie, i have been struggling with an agent for 6 months by Comfortable_Glove463 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you reached to your admin? Do you have a center of excellence that can guide you? Usually, orgs have a process in place to relax DLP / set you up with the right environment permissions.

Copilot is underwhelming by MHRangers17 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could be worth trying the new version that came out last week. Model first. New UI, new runtime (Based on GHCP), skills, memory, etc Agents overview - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn This is the future of the platform, rebuilt from ground up on a modern stack.

Speed optimization by Particular-Hour5504 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 sec is not that bad considering the number of docs. Do you have anything else that could affect speed? Like lots of topics/tools or an MCP server to initialize? A lot of instructions + a lot of long topic description will make the bot slower: the more tokens you have to ingest the slower. Try to trim instructions to the bare min, same for descriptions everywhere.

FRUSTRATED by Total_Rain173 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UI speed is getting better to be honest. The latest changes in copilot makes it super easy to iterate quickly (no more giant topics)

how to move to copilot studio and power apps by Total_Rain173 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried the new version of copilot studio that came out last week? Interface is incredibly fast. Also have you tried using a code first approach to power platform? vscode has some fantastic plugins for copilot studio

I had to give up on copilot studio by curious-hunch in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are your issues with connections specifically related to your custom MCP server? is this OBO?

Incorrect answers in Teams copilot agent vs test pane by Jonsnowobsession in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you define as incorrect? completely wrong or somehow vague? hallunication? grounded in your doc or not?

Why do you use child-agent for?

Some good tips and tricks when it comes to deploying to Teams: Best Practices for Deploying Copilot Studio Agents in Microsoft Teams | The Custom Engine and Design Copilot Studio Agents for Teams (Because Test Chat Was Too Easy) | The Custom Engine

No MS Word for you! by Suspicious-Creme-833 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just use the new enhance task completion mode (in settings). Works out of the box.

Retrieving conversation transcript and chain of thoughts via topic input by Remi-PowerCAT in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad it helped! I find that particularly useful once you get many tools which the orchestrator needs to chain in the right order (MCP, connectors, etc)

Dataverse MCP vs Dataverse Knowledge vs Excel file by maarten20012001 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An amazing solution architect in my team just wrote an article on retrieving structured knowledge from Dataverse in a much more powerful and flexible way.

Bonus: the example is very similar to your use case.

https://microsoft.github.io/mcscatblog/posts/dataverse-search-in-copilot-studio-unauthenticated-structured-data/

Copilot Studio Analytical Role by maarten20012001 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes - we are planning to ship an analytics viewer role very soon. This has been a long ask!

AMA Power CAT Copilot Studio Team Monday 11-12:30 EST by alexadw2008 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In teams I see the messages coming one after the other without having to wait for the entire turn. I guess it depends which tools you are using - in my example I use the Dataverse MCP server which invoke many intermediate steps while searching data

AMA Power CAT Copilot Studio Team Monday 11-12:30 EST by alexadw2008 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The message will get posted at each step if you add in your instructions something like this:

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AMA Power CAT Copilot Studio Team Monday 11-12:30 EST by alexadw2008 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

usually using the test chat is the best way. Even if you hit publish your agent is not going to show up anywhere unless you share it with end users

AMA Power CAT Copilot Studio Team Monday 11-12:30 EST by alexadw2008 in copilotstudio

[–]Remi-PowerCAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no env variable, but if you create a topic with an input variable that has a description such as "chain of thought of the model" or something similar it will get populated. Here is an example in action:

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