// hands-on notes

The Workbench

Hands-on with AI, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform, by Mariano Gomez, Former Microsoft MVP (2008-2024).

October 19, 2026

Copilot Studio | The Skill That Isn't There

Put an unquoted colon in the description of a Copilot Studio skill and nothing will tell you. Copilot Studio skips the skill, loads the...

October 16, 2026

Copilot Studio agents built on the GitHub Copilot harness can now run one of your workflows before every tool call, and that workflow i...

October 13, 2026

A generative page is React code that an agent wrote on your behalf. Which means that the first time one fails in front of a user, someb...

October 08, 2026

Back on September 4th I wrote about the model app builder , the Power Platform plugin that stands up a model-driven app from a descript...

October 05, 2026

If you have an MCP server manifest sitting on your disk right now, there is a good chance it is already out of date. And you have until...

October 02, 2026

If you have spent any real time modeling security in Dataverse, you have had this conversation. A customer wants "this group of pe...

September 30, 2026

Every so often a question comes back around wearing a different costume. The version I have fielded most often, in one form or another,...