Build Reusable Copilot Workflows with Skills and Agents
Microsoft Copilot skills are shareable markdown-based workflow files for reusable agent automation
“a skill is just a sequence of steps into a workflow and that is all combined into a markdown file called a skill.md file”
Microsoft engineers demonstrate how Copilot 'skills' work as portable, markdown-based workflow definitions that can be shared between users and packaged into plugins distributed via a marketplace. The session is a hands-on tutorial rather than a product announcement, showing how to encode multi-step processes into reusable agent workflows. Signal is low for the newsletter — this is foundational developer education content, not a strategic shift or novel capability reveal.