docs: add Copilot Agent Standards - #39
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A new standards document covering agents across the Microsoft Copilot surfaces, since "Copilot agent" names five unrelated products that share no manifest format, limits or distribution path. Structured as platform-independent rules first, then per-platform detail: ten rules that hold everywhere (definition as code, instructions versus knowledge, retrieved content as data, grounding, least capability, the autonomy ladder, enforcement outside the prompt, cadence off by default, a human sponsor, testing what a schema cannot), then sections for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot, GitHub Copilot, identity and lifecycle governance, testing, and shipping agents as code. Includes a complete worked instruction set: the shipped terraform-author agent from libre-devops/copilot-agents, its fragment composition with the per-fragment character spend, and an annotated read of why each section is where it is. Dated 24 August 2026 with an explicit re-verification table carrying Microsoft's own page dates, a known-gaps list, and instructions for whoever refreshes it. Every platform limit was checked against the live documentation rather than written from memory.
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content/docs/documents/copilot-agent-standards.mdx, wired into the sidebar (_meta.ts), the documents index card, and the homepage standards band (auto-discovered as a*-standards.mdxdoc, pill reads "Copilot Agent").Why
"Copilot agent" names five unrelated products. Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agents, Copilot Studio, SharePoint agents, Security Copilot agents and GitHub Copilot share no manifest format, no limits and no distribution path, so the document names them first and then splits the rules that hold everywhere from the per-platform detail that does not.
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terraform-authoragent from libre-devops/copilot-agents at 7,309 of 8,000 characters, with its fragment composition, per-fragment spend, and an annotated read of why each section is where it is.Dating
The document is explicitly dated 24 August 2026 in a status callout at the top and states that it needs updating. A
## Document statussection carries a re-verification table with Microsoft's own page dates per source, a known-gaps list, and instructions for whoever refreshes it next.Verification
ms.daterecorded in the document.npm run buildandnpm run lintclean locally.