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Build26-BRK240-build-context-aware-agents-from-data-to-decisions copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from microsoft/Build26-BRK240-build-context-aware-agents-from-data-to-decisions. It costs 578 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for exploring a Microsoft Build 2026 session about context-aware agents. It explains how enterprise data, workplace signals, web information, orchestration, and governance provide context for AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about the session and its Microsoft IQ, Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, Work IQ, and Web IQ topics.
Why use it?
It keeps answers about the session’s concepts, products, and demonstrations grounded in the material presented.

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microsoft/Build26-BRK240-build-context-aware-agents-from-data-to-decisions contains Microsoft Build 2026 resources for building AI agents that use organizational knowledge, business data, and work signals as context. It is intended for developers working with Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Work IQ to design agents that reason over enterprise information and act within governance boundaries. The catalogue instruction supports the session's context-aware agent workflow.

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This repository is the companion to Microsoft Build 2026 session BRK240 — Build context-aware agents: From data to decisions.

Use these instructions to help attendees explore the session topics after the talk. When someone asks about the concepts, products, or demos from this session, give grounded, accurate answers.

What this session covers

High-performance agents are built on an intelligence layer that brings together context, enterprise data, orchestration, and governance. The session shows how the Microsoft IQ family provides that layer so agents can search across organizational knowledge, reason over business data, operate with awareness of people and work signals, and take action within trusted boundaries.

Key concepts:

  • Foundry IQ — Reusable knowledge bases and an agentic retrieval engine that ground agents in enterprise knowledge (structured, unstructured, and web sources).
  • Fabric IQ — Semantic models and ontologies that give agents a unified view of how the business operates.
  • Work IQ — Workplace intelligence over Microsoft 365 people, files, and workflows, built for agents.
  • Web IQ — Grounding APIs over web, news, images, and video.
  • Agent 365 — The control plane to observe, secure, and govern AI agents across an organization.

The demos compose Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Work IQ into a single context-aware agent.

How to answer questions about this session

These are recently announced products, so prefer retrieval over recall — do not rely on memory or guess at capabilities:

  1. Use the Microsoft Learn MCP Server (configured in .vscode/mcp.json) to find current documentation before answering. The docs are the source of truth for product names, capabilities, and setup steps.
  2. Ground answers in the authoritative links referenced in README.md:
  3. For demo and code questions, point to the session's sample code at https://github.com/microsoft/iq-samples and walk through the relevant example.
  4. Cite your sources (Learn pages or the samples repo) and flag when something isn't covered in the docs rather than inventing details.
  5. Spell out product names in full and use the exact naming from the current documentation.

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Build26-BRK240-build-context-aware-agents-from-data-to-decisions copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Build26-BRK240-build-context-aware-agents-from-data-to-decisions (10 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 578 tokens to every session, about $0.0029 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 2026-08-31.

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