From Build to Operate: ALM Patterns for Production‑Ready Copilot Studio Agents

As teams move beyond experimentation and start deploying Copilot Studio agents into real environments, Agent Lifecycle Management (ALM) becomes essential. Production agents need more than good prompts—they need repeatable deployments, environment isolation, and governance‑ready configuration. In this session, we’ll walk through practical ALM patterns for Copilot Studio agents using solutions as the source of truth, environment variables, and connection references. You’ll see how these patterns remove hard‑coded values and enable the same agent to move safely from Dev to Test to Production using managed solutions and pipelines. The session also highlights emerging ALM capabilities in Copilot Studio and how they fit into the broader Power Platform ALM story. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model for building once, deploying many times, and operating agents with confidence at enterprise scale. Learn to build AI agents step-by-step: https://aka.ms/agent-academy Join the Agent Academy Hackathon: http://aka.ms/agent-academy-hackathon Explore what you can do with Copilot Cowork: https://aka.ms/cowork-collective