Microsoft Business Skills for Dataverse lets companies encode processes for AI agents

Microsoft announced Business Skills for Dataverse in public preview as of May 1, allowing companies to encode processes, policies, and domain expertise as natural-language instructions that AI agents can discover and follow at runtime. Skills are defined once in Dataverse -- any agent can use them, and updating a skill applies changes everywhere. The system works with the Dataverse MCP server and is governed with sharing/visibility controls. Business Skills are available across Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Azure AI Foundry, and any MCP-compatible client. Microsoft also released Dataverse Skills, an open-source plugin for coding agents. A new AI Agent Builder Associate certification (Exam AB-620 beta) was simultaneously introduced.