AB-620: Designing and Building Integrated AI Solutions in Copilot Studio

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QuestionQ27

Test and manage agents

A company is configuring an agent in Copilot Studio that uses a generative answers node inside multiple topics.

The company requires responses to meet the following requirements:

  • Must use an executive summary format.
  • Must apply only within a specific topic.
  • Must continue using configured knowledge sources.
  • Must comply with connector security controls.
  • You need to configure a custom prompt to meet the formatting requirements.

Solution: Remove the generative answers node and rely only on the custom prompt to produce formatted responses.

Does the solution meet the goal?

Explanation

The generative answers node in Copilot Studio is the mechanism that both retrieves data from configured knowledge sources and enforces the tenant's connector and data-loss-prevention security controls when generating a response; it is also where a topic-scoped custom prompt (for example, requesting an executive-summary format) is applied. Removing the node eliminates the governed integration with those knowledge sources and security controls, so relying on a standalone custom prompt without the generative answers node would not continue to use the configured knowledge sources or comply with connector security controls.

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