The instruction block is the easy 20 percent. This ships the other 80.

One download, a single .zip: a 55-page guide PDF; six paste-ready instruction blocks as plain .txt; an import-ready-packages folder (six one-click Copilot upload zips plus an import guide); four workbooks (the agent operating register, a cost estimator, a test-script log, and a tickable governance-and-deployment checklists workbook); the six operating-layer standards as standalone files; plus a CHANGELOG, a LICENSE file and a read-me with my contact address. Each deliverable is usable on its own without reading the prose, and every later version is free from your library.

You need a Copilot Studio environment, an M365 tenant with a DLP policy, and publish rights. These are declarative agents grounded on knowledge sources. No custom connector, Power Automate flow, plugin, or code is required, and none is included.

Honestly, the instruction blocks overlap with both, on purpose. The repo and Microsoft's library give you the instruction block, and that is the part everyone gives away for free. What neither ships is the refusal clause proven by an included test, the hand-to-DPO governance note, and the labeled-assumption cost estimate. If you only want the instruction text, take it from the free repo with my blessing.

They solve different halves, and if you have the control plane, keep it and run this beside it. Agent 365 reached general availability on May 1 2026, and Entra Agent ID gives every agent a real directory identity you can inventory, grant, monitor and revoke. What it governs is agents once they exist. Whether an agent should exist at all, who carries the consequence when it is wrong, the one line justifying the access it was granted, whose budget the metered line lands on, and the written condition that ends its life are decided before the directory ever sees the agent, and none of them is a directory fact. The pack includes a one-page note on running both, with the quarterly reconciliation between the inventory and the register and the three failure classes it surfaces. On commercials: Agent 365 appears inside the E7 bundle at a $99 per user per month list price alongside E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Entra Suite, and agent runtime still bills through the metered credit layer rather than being included in a governance seat. The standalone price is not stated on Microsoft Learn, so this page does not present a figure for it. Confirm your own packaging with your Microsoft account team.

No, and here is how to check. I drafted it against a research brief with named, dated sources, then it passed a deterministic slop scan with zero errors and a build check that opens the PDF and recomputes both workbooks in a real spreadsheet engine. A human reviewed the voice and the numbers. Where Microsoft publishes a rate but not a per-task credit count, the figures say so and are labeled assumptions.

Usually not. Microsoft added a metered layer in June 2026 on top of the flat $30-per-user seat; the seat price did not change. For internal, interactive use by people who already hold an M365 Copilot license, agent use is zero-rated, so most of these agents cost effectively $0 on top of the seat. The estimator ships with a worked example ($1,034/mo at base case for the metered cases, low $517 to high $2,068) so you budget a range.

It gives you considerations to hand them, not a legal opinion. The governance note treats these agents as limited-risk productivity tools, which is what they are while you stay inside Vol. 1's scope. The checklist includes the Article 50 transparency duty (in force from August 2, 2026) as a first-turn AI-disclosure line, and flags Flex Routing for your DPO. Your DPO and counsel own the assessment.

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