<\/i>Feature Availability<\/strong><\/p>Please note that the features mentioned below are available as a prerelease<\/a> in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.<\/div><\/p>\n Developers can now evaluate their app packages against the same test cases Microsoft uses to review apps. The new Enhanced App Validation feature in Teams Toolkit identifies errors or warnings in your app package and offers guidelines for resolution. This feature ensures your app meets the necessary standards before submission. For more details, refer to the Teams Store validation guidelines<\/a> and Commercial marketplace certification policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n During Build 2024, we introduced support for building Custom Engine Copilot<\/a>, including a “chat with” feature for your own API. Now, we\u2019re thrilled to extend this capability to Python developers. With Teams Toolkit, you can now generate intelligent chatbots using Python, expanding your toolkit for building powerful, AI-driven applications.<\/p>\n You can now use Teams Toolkit to create declarative copilots, allowing you to craft custom copilots by declaring instructions, actions, and knowledge to tailor Copilot for Microsoft 365. These declarative copilots operate on the same orchestrator, foundation models, and trusted AI services that power Microsoft Copilot. Learn more about Declarative Copilot here<\/a>. Teams Toolkit enables you to build either a basic declarative copilot or one with an API plugin.<\/p>\n Currently Declarative copilot is still in extended private preview, make sure you met these prerequisites<\/a> before building a declarative copilot with Teams Toolkit.<\/p>\n Teams Toolkit has updated the AI Agent (Python) app template to support the Assistant API on Azure OpenAI Service. Now, you can build your own AI Agents for Microsoft 365 using Python, with the option to choose between Azure OpenAI Service or directly using OpenAI. An update for the TypeScript and JavaScript versions will be coming soon.<\/p>\n Download the latest version of Teams Toolkit<\/a> and explore these new features and improvements today.<\/p>\n Follow us on X (Twitter) \/ @Microsoft365Dev<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a>, and subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> to stay up to date on the latest developer news and announcements.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learn about the latest Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code updates including the capability to create declarative copilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43243,"featured_media":22568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,128],"tags":[349,280,23,135,44],"class_list":["post-22563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-365-copilot","category-microsoft-teams","tag-declarative-copilot","tag-microsoft-copilot","tag-teams-toolkit","tag-python","tag-visual-studio-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Learn about the latest Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code updates including the capability to create declarative copilots.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Enhanced App Validation<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nGenerate an Intelligent Chatbot with Python<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nCreate Declarative Copilots<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nUsing Assistant API on Azure OpenAI Service<\/h2>\n
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