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Ship your first SharePoint Skill

A free 4-part email course. By the final email you'll have turned processes stuck in one person's head into reusable skills your whole team can run — with a Copilot that answers from your actual site instead of guessing.

Where you'll be after 4 emails

  • You've shipped real, reusable SharePoint Skills
  • You run the sharepoint.md brains file with confidence
  • You roll out to your team without the permissions trap

Free · 4 short lessons · no fluff · unsubscribe anytime.

Copilot in SharePoint
--skills

Available site skills

Invoice complianceReviews invoices · builds dashboard
Supplier agreement reviewChecks terms against standard
EOFY handover packGenerates the year-end pack

Landing in your tenant right now

It went from opt-in to opt-out while you weren't looking

Most of your team has no idea what that button in the bottom-right corner really does. Here's the trajectory that got us here.

  1. 01

    SharePoint Knowledge Agent

    Where it quietly started life.

  2. 02

    Rebranded to AI

    Same engine, new front door.

  3. 03

    Skills roll out

    Reusable across every site in the tenant.

  4. 04 · NOW

    Opt-out rollout begins

    On by default in every Copilot-licensed tenant.

What you'll learn · 4 parts

From “what's this button” to shipping real skills

One short email per part. Follow along in your own tenant — every example is built live.

Module 0101

What SharePoint Skills actually are

  • A skill is an SOP for Copilot — scalable across your whole team and site
  • The --skills and --agent tools commands (60+ tools)
  • Generate a live list straight from flagged items in your documents
Module 0202

Build your very first skill

  • Use the “create a skill” skill — yes, it's gloriously meta
  • Ship an invoice-review skill with a board-ready HTML dashboard
  • Turn one person's judgment into a skill the whole team can run
Module 0303

The sharepoint.md brains file

  • The readme for your site AI that loads into every single chat
  • Site context + memory that every skill inherits automatically
  • Update standards in plain English — no answer left to guesswork
Module 0404

The permissions trap

  • Copilot respects permissions perfectly — and that's exactly the risk
  • Grounded vs ungrounded sites — fix structure and metadata first
  • See what a read-only user really gets when a skill runs

The mental model

Three files run the whole thing

Once these three click into place, everything else in the course is just practice. Get them right and Copilot stops guessing.

sharepoint.md

The brains

Global site context and memory. It loads into every Copilot chat automatically and every skill inherits it — so answers are correct, not just plausible.

skill.md

The skill

A folder plus a skill.md with a description and a trigger phrase. Say the phrase, the skill runs — and anyone on your team can run the exact same process.

the output

The result

Live lists, board-ready HTML dashboards, end-of-year handover packs — real work produced from a single prompt, right inside the same site.

DA

Daniel Anderson

Microsoft 365 & AI enablement

Your instructor

I get teams real work out of Copilot — not demos that never leave the sandbox.

Every example in this course is built live in a real SharePoint tenant, in plain language, at the pace you'd actually work. No slideware, no theory — just the exact prompts, files and gotchas so you can ship your first skill the same afternoon.

Free · 4 parts · start today

Stop letting Copilot guess. Teach it your team.

Get lesson one in your inbox now. By the end you'll have shipped real, reusable SharePoint Skills your whole team can run.