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Accelerators & Prototypes
Sales assistance
Sales agent, Dynamics 365 in Cowork, and the Sales Extension Suite: how the pieces fit
What to turn on for sellers: the Sales agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Dynamics 365 Sales skills in Copilot Cowork, and an optional accelerator that makes briefs, follow-ups and handoffs consistent.
The Microsoft Copilot harness (formerly GitHub Copilot): a plain-English guide to Copilot Studio harnesses
Microsoft renamed the GitHub Copilot harness to the Microsoft Copilot harness. Here's what each Copilot Studio harness is for, which to pick, and how to think about agents you've already built.
Size an AI agent's monthly running cost as an honest low / likely / high range, pick the right harness, and weigh cost against business value. Unconfirmed rates are flagged on purpose, with the reason why.
A private, issue-first pattern where every build request becomes a spec'd GitHub issue, a coding agent opens a small pull request, and I review every one before merging.
One local control surface, explicit sensitive-action gates
A React reference build combines Home Assistant cards and custom estate controls without publishing real household configuration or treating self-monitoring as a supported service.
A seller workflow demo is not an autonomous agent system
Deal to Glory makes a five-stage workflow visible while its source reveals the important limits: deterministic extraction, illustrative calculations, simulated notification, and an ungated optional CRM write path.