Daniel AndersonShip your first SharePoint skill. Then hand it to the whole team.
A free four-part email course. By the last email you'll have turned a process stuck in one person's head into a reusable skill your team can run, with Copilot answering from your actual site instead of guessing.
Where you'll be after four emails
- ✓You've shipped real skills. Reusable SharePoint skills your whole team can run, not a demo.
- ✓You run sharepoint.md with confidence. The file that gives Copilot your site's context in every chat.
- ✓You roll out without the permissions trap. You'll know what a read-only user really gets before anyone else finds out.
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 how we got here.
SharePoint Knowledge Agent
Where it quietly started life.
Rebranded to AI
Same engine, new front door.
Skills roll out
Reusable across every site in the tenant.
Opt-out rollout begins
On by default in every Copilot-licensed tenant.
From "what's this button?" to shipping real skills.
One short email per part. Follow along in your own tenant, because every example is built live.
What SharePoint skills actually are
- A skill is an SOP for Copilot, scalable across your whole team and site
- The
--skillsand--agentcommands (60+ tools) - Generate a live list straight from flagged items in your documents
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 judgement into a skill the whole team can run
The sharepoint.md brains file
- The readme for your site's AI, loaded into every chat
- Site context and memory that every skill inherits automatically
- Update standards in plain English, so no answer is left to guesswork
The permissions trap
- Copilot respects permissions perfectly, and that's exactly the risk
- Grounded and ungrounded sites: fix structure and metadata first
- See what a read-only user really gets when a skill runs
Three files run the whole thing.
Once these three click, everything else in the course is practice. Get them right and Copilot stops guessing.
sharepoint.mdThe brains
Global site context and memory. It loads into every Copilot chat and every skill inherits it, so answers are correct, not just plausible.
skill.mdThe skill
A folder with a skill.md file, a description and a trigger phrase. Say the phrase and the skill runs, the same way for anyone on your team.
the outputThe result
Live lists, board-ready HTML dashboards, end-of-year handover packs. Real work from a single prompt, inside the same site.
Your instructor, Daniel Anderson
I'm a Microsoft MVP, and I help teams get 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. You get the exact prompts, files and gotchas, so you can ship your first skill the same afternoon.
Stop letting Copilot guess. Teach it your team.
Get lesson one in your inbox now. By the end you'll have shipped a real, reusable SharePoint skill your whole team can run.