Copilot Studio skill (two patterns)

How to wire Genie into Copilot Studio as an External Web Service with a Simple and an Advanced skill.

This guide helps makers/admins connect your Genie web app to Microsoft Copilot Studio so copilots can call Genie inside flows, topics, or actions.

Simple Genie skill

In this skill, you can access Genie directly. Copilot will pass the value of Activity.Text to Genie for processing.

• Input: prompt - The user’s question or instruction to be processed by Databricks Genie.
• Output: answer - The actual text answer generated by Genie based on the provided prompt
• Use when: a quick “ask Genie” step is enough.

Advanced Genie skill (recommended)

This skill interacts with Genie in a more controlled way. You can choose what to send as input and capture the result and status with greater control. This is the recommended approach, as it allows you to enrich both the inputs and outputs within your flow.

• Inputs: prompt, optional context
• Outputs (5):
  1. elapsedMs - Time (in milliseconds) that Genie took to process the request — useful for performance monitoring.
  2. error - Error message, if any occurred during processing. Empty or null means the call was successful.
  3. response - The actual text answer generated by Genie based on the provided prompt
  4. status - Processing status — typically values like success, error, or timeout. Helps manage control flow in Copilot.
  5. traceId - Unique identifier for the transaction, used for logging, tracing, or debugging requests across systems.

How to wire

1. Copilot Studio → Settings → Skills → Add skill.

2. fullfill the Skill Manifest URL and point to your bot:

   • Terraform already deployed a manifest.json file in genie-M365-agent/public/manifest.json
   • Manifest URL is: https://<your-webapp>.azurewebsites.net/public/manifest.json

3. Then you will see the Skill enabled in your project.