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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.

Builder's Log

Agent patterns

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.

Builder's Log

Decision support

Tokenomics planner

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.

Builder's Log

Agent patterns

The one-person software factory

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.

Accelerators & Prototypes

IT administration

Start with the slowdown, not the fix

A practical administrator preview turns performance questions into sourced evidence, visible gaps and controlled change planning.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Personal systems

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.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Business applications

Turn freight exceptions into owned work

A control-tower prototype reframes shipment signals as visible, aging, assignable work instead of another thread in an inbox.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Information design

Prototype the reading experience before the ingestion service

An unpublished static demo makes the filter and digest interaction tangible while clearly separating sample content from live product news.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Business applications

Bring the surrounding record into the work

An adaptive form component assembles related Dataverse context without turning context gathering into another application.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Agents and AI

Making multi-agent work visible

A public starter kit uses GitHub Issues as the control surface for specialist agents, explicit handoffs, and human-reviewed outcomes.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Business applications

Keep claims assistance separate from claims authority

A Power Platform accelerator structures intake and review while preserving the human decision boundary that matters.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Agents and AI

Teach prompting as a team sport

A multiplayer escape room makes instructions, constraints, iteration, and reflection part of the learning loop.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Agents and AI

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.

Accelerators & Prototypes

Developer labs

Use a tiny tool to see the whole MCP path

A deliberately small joke server makes the protocol boundary, deployment step, client connection, and user invocation easy to inspect.