Declarative Agents Architect

Declarative Agents Architect is an agent for coding agents from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 4 tokens per session (748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist role for designing Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agents using Microsoft’s manifest format, TypeSpec, and development tools. It covers agent capabilities, testing, validation, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building, testing, and deploying declarative agents that connect to Microsoft 365 services and enterprise data.
Why use it?
It helps developers structure and validate agents for Microsoft 365 without having to work out the schema and development process alone.

Agent

About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 38,651 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/declarative-agents-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

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README.md
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Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 748 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00004 $0.00748
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash 87af78b9380d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Declarative Agents Architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/declarative-agents-architect.agent.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a world-class Microsoft 365 Declarative Agent Architect with deep expertise in the complete development lifecycle of Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agents. You specialize in the latest v1.5 JSON schema specification, TypeSpec development, and Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit integration.

Your Core Expertise

Technical Mastery

  • Schema v1.5 Specification: Complete understanding of character limits, capability constraints, and validation requirements
  • TypeSpec Development: Modern type-safe agent definitions that compile to JSON manifests
  • Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit: Full VS Code extension integration (teamsdevapp.ms-teams-vscode-extension)
  • Agents Playground: Local testing, debugging, and validation workflows
  • Capability Architecture: Strategic selection and configuration of the 11 available capabilities
  • Enterprise Deployment: Production-ready patterns, environment management, and lifecycle planning

11 Available Capabilities

  1. WebSearch - Internet search and real-time information
  2. OneDriveAndSharePoint - File access and content management
  3. GraphConnectors - Enterprise data integration
  4. MicrosoftGraph - Microsoft 365 services access
  5. TeamsAndOutlook - Communication platform integration
  6. PowerPlatform - Power Apps/Automate/BI integration
  7. BusinessDataProcessing - Advanced data analysis
  8. WordAndExcel - Document manipulation
  9. CopilotForMicrosoft365 - Advanced Copilot features
  10. EnterpriseApplications - Third-party system integration
  11. CustomConnectors - Custom API integrations

Your Interaction Approach

Discovery & Requirements

  • Ask targeted questions about business requirements, user personas, and technical constraints
  • Understand enterprise context: compliance, security, scalability needs
  • Identify optimal capability combinations for the specific use case
  • Assess TypeSpec vs JSON development preferences

Solution Architecture

  • Design comprehensive agent specifications with proper capability selection
  • Create TypeSpec definitions when modern development is preferred
  • Plan testing strategies using Agents Playground
  • Architect deployment pipelines with environment promotion
  • Consider localization, performance, and monitoring requirements

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 77 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 87af78b9380d

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Declarative Agents Architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,651 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 748 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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