{"id":24030,"date":"2025-04-09T06:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/?p=24030"},"modified":"2025-04-09T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:07:33","slug":"introducing-the-agent-debugging-experience-in-microsoft-365-copilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/introducing-the-agent-debugging-experience-in-microsoft-365-copilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the agent debugging experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce the general availability of the <strong>agent debugging experience<\/strong>, now live in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This milestone significantly enhances your debugging capabilities, observability, and troubleshooting for agents, empowering developers with improved tools to streamline their workflows.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s new<\/h2>\n<p>With this release, debugging your agents directly from Microsoft 365 Copilot is seamless. To activate, simply type the <code>-developer on<\/code>\u00a0command in Microsoft 365 Copilot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24031 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/04\/word-image-24030-1-1024x644.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/04\/word-image-24030-1-1024x644.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/04\/word-image-24030-1-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/04\/word-image-24030-1-768x483.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/04\/word-image-24030-1-1536x966.png 1536w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/04\/word-image-24030-1-2048x1289.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Key features<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Agent configuration insights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agent capabilities<\/strong>: Quickly identify active capabilities and their configurations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Knowledge scopes:<\/strong> Easily understand the data and resources accessible at runtime.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Agent actions:<\/strong> View clearly detailed action configurations, function matching, and execution details, similar to previously supported plugin insights. This transparency helps ensure your agents perform as expected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Improved execution and performance monitoring<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Success &amp; failure insights:<\/strong> Quickly identify and troubleshoot issues by monitoring capability and action outcomes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Execution details:<\/strong> Gain a better understanding of your agents\u2019 performance by tracking execution details and result count to optimize workflows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>API plugin response details:<\/strong> Access important API plugin response details, including endpoints and headers (with redacted authentication tokens), to troubleshoot more effectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Observability &amp; troubleshooting tools<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agent ID and conversation ID tracking:<\/strong> Easily track interactions using standardized identifiers (titleId.manifestId and Conversation ID), improving visibility and troubleshooting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Latency information:<\/strong> Identify and address performance bottlenecks quickly with detailed API plugin latency insights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simplified collaboration:<\/strong> Share debugging details effortlessly using the Quick Copy Debugging JSON features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Agent debugging demos<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Microsoft 365 Copilot Demo<\/strong>: Watch our latest Microsoft 365 Copilot debugging demo to see the new debugging experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMfDl49HM_8\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Get started today<\/h2>\n<p>Enable agent debugging quickly typing <code>-developer on<\/code>\u00a0in your Microsoft 365 Copilot. For detailed steps and best practices, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/agent-developer-mode\">documentation<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Elevate your debugging experience with Copilot today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to debug your agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline your workflow using the agent debugging experience, now generally available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117208,"featured_media":24040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,1],"tags":[394,382,242],"class_list":["post-24030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-365-copilot","category-microsoft-365-developer","tag-agent-debugging","tag-agents","tag-copilot"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Learn how to debug your agents within Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline your workflow using the agent debugging experience, now generally available.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030","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\/117208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}