microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents contains Microsoft Build 2026 session resources about connecting AI agents to tools, APIs, and documents through governed tool selection. It is intended for developers building agents that need efficient access to MCP servers, A2A, OpenAPI, connectors, built-in tools, and structured content from multimodal files. The catalogue add-ons are session instructions for exploring these agent-building patterns.
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.
npx skills add microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents --skill field-briefinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documentsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/build26-brk242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents/field-briefing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/build26-brk242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents/field-briefing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/build26-brk242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents/field-briefing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/build26-brk242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents/field-briefing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/build26-brk242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents/field-briefing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00054 | $0.01299 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00649 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00260 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00130 |
Grade A, and why
field-briefing 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 12d ago.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Field Briefing
Use this skill to give the technician a complete briefing before heading to a job site. This combines work order details, parts availability, and relevant procedures/safety info.
When to Use
- "Brief me on WO-007"
- "Give me the full rundown for WO-003"
- "Walk me through what I need for my next job"
- "Full briefing for WO-010"
- "What should I know before heading to the splice job?"
Tools Used by This Skill
This skill uses three capabilities from the Foundry Toolbox in sequence:
| # | Capability | Prefixed tool name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get the work order | work_orders___get_work_order_work_orders__work_order_id__get |
| 2 | Check stock for the parts list | inventory___check_stock_batch |
| 3 | Search procedures & safety | knowledge_base |
Step 0: Discover tools (REQUIRED before first call this turn)
If any of these tools isn't already visible in your tool list, run one combined tool_search with limit: 10:
tool_search({"query": "work order parts stock knowledge base", "limit": 10})
Never run one search per capability — a single combined query with limit: 10 returns all needed tools, and they stay callable for the rest of the turn.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1: Fetch the Work Order
Call work_orders___get_work_order_work_orders__work_order_id__get via call_tool with {"work_order_id": "WO-XXX"}.
Note the job type from the title and description — you'll need this to search
the knowledge base for relevant procedures.
Step 2: Check Parts Availability
Call inventory___check_stock_batch via call_tool with {"part_ids": [<all part_ids>]} in a single call.
Do NOT call check_stock individually for each part.
Classify each as ✅ Ready, ⚠️ Partial, or ❌ Unavailable.
Step 3: Search the Knowledge Base
Call knowledge_base via call_tool with {"query": "<combined query>"}.
Based on the work order's job type, search for relevant procedures and safety protocols.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 154 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 0c40fbbb7998
field-briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Build26-BRK242-turn-your-agents-into-action-connect-tools-apis-and-documents (10 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,299 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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