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.

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Microsoft Developer

A walkthrough of ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) patterns for Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, covering how to move agents across dev, test, UAT, and production environments. Key concepts include creating custom solutions, using environment variables and connection references to manage per-environment settings, and leveraging Power Platform pipelines for one-click deployments. A live demo shows an agent that dynamically identifies its environment and connects to the correct API endpoint using environment variables. Also previews a new feature that adds an environment suffix to agents published in Microsoft 365, making it easier to distinguish dev vs. test deployments.

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