{"id":1945,"date":"2026-04-06T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powerplatform\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:26:22","slug":"agent-academy-update-special-ops-cowork-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powerplatform\/agent-academy-update-special-ops-cowork-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Academy Spring Drop: Special Ops, Cowork Collective, and a Whole New Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve shipped a big round of updates to Agent Academy. Two new sections, a completely redone site experience, and more missions on the way. Here’s what’s changed.<\/p>\n

Quick recap for anyone new<\/h2>\n

Agent Academy is a free, open-source curriculum for learning how to build agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Since launching in August 2025, it has crossed one million views<\/strong>, which tells us the community is hungry for guided, hands-on content around building and using agents.<\/p>\n

Agent Academy features three ranks of full courses covering building agents with Copilot Studio: Recruit<\/a> covers the fundamentals of Copilot Studio, Operative<\/a> goes deeper into multi-agent systems, AI safety, MCP integration, and document generation, and Commander<\/a> is on the way in the upcoming months.<\/p>\n

Every rank is hands-on, every mission is scenario-driven, and the whole thing runs at your own pace. You use your own environment and your own licenses, free trials included.<\/p>\n

What’s new: Special Ops<\/h2>\n

The core rank courses are your main program. Special Ops<\/a> are something different: standalone, one-off missions that each focus on a specific skill or integration. You don’t need to be enrolled in any rank to try them. You can jump in, do the mission, and move on. Right now there are four Special Ops missions live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Badge<\/th>\nMission<\/th>\nWhat You’ll Learn<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\"MCP<\/a><\/td>\nMCS \u2764\ufe0f MCP<\/a><\/td>\nConnect Copilot Studio to an MCP server and put it to work inside your agent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Academy<\/a><\/td>\nMicrosoft Learn Docs MCP<\/a><\/td>\nWork with the official Microsoft Learn documentation MCP server inside your agent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"CommandLine<\/a><\/td>\nPower Platform CLI MCP<\/a><\/td>\nBuild with the pac CLI MCP server and automate Power Platform tasks from your agent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"YAML<\/a><\/td>\nYAML Specialist<\/a><\/td>\nMaster the YAML skills that keep showing up in agent configuration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

More Special Ops missions are coming. That’s the whole point of the format because we can keep adding targeted labs on specific topics without waiting for a full course to come together.<\/p>\n

What’s new: Cowork Collective<\/h2>\n

This one is genuinely different from anything else in the Academy. Cowork Collective<\/a> is a set of hands-on labs built around Copilot Cowork, which is currently available through the Microsoft 365 Frontier preview program. Copilot Cowork provides a way to delegate work across your M365 environment. You describe a task, Cowork plans out the steps, and you approve each action before it runs. It can send emails, schedule meetings, create documents, post in Teams, analyze files, and more, with 13 built-in skills and support for custom skills you store in OneDrive. The three missions launching today give you a real feel for what Cowork actually does in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Badge<\/th>\nMission<\/th>\nWhat You’ll Do<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\"Badge<\/td>\n\ud83c\udfe2 Badge Check<\/a><\/td>\nStart with a CSV of building access records, have Cowork identify employees who keep forgetting to badge out, and deliver a styled HTML report to your inbox.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Audit<\/td>\n\ud83d\udd12 The Compliance Packet<\/a><\/td>\nWork through an audit scenario where Cowork pulls compliance documentation together and sends it along. The kind of administrative task that takes too long when done manually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Vacay<\/td>\n\ud83c\udfd6\ufe0f Out of Office Handoff<\/a><\/td>\nHave Cowork pull together your open items, draft the handoff, and set up the communications so you’re fully prepped before you go out of office.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

More missions are being added as the program grows.<\/p>\n

The UI got a serious overhaul<\/h2>\n

The site experience is better across the board. Here’s what actually changed:<\/p>\n