Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

In my previous blog post : Detecting User’s Sentiment in chat I explained how to create a Prompt actions to determine the user’s sentiment and use it with in a topic.

However, the Prompt Action was specific to that agent. If I receive a similar requirement in another agent, I would need to recreate the Prompt Action from scratch.

In this article, let’s explore how to create a Tool that can be shared across multiple agents.

Create a new tool:

• Sign-in to Copilot Studio and choose Tools tab.

• Click on + New tool
• For this example, I will be choosing the Prompt

• Click on the Prompt and you will see the prompt builder screen.
• I will be choosing a prompt text from Prompt library. Click on Prompt library

• Choose Run sentiment analysis on text

• Provide a name and save the Prompt.

We’ve now created a Tool that can be used across multiple agents. Let’s see how to use this shared tool in an agent.

Use the shared tool in an Agent:

• Open the Agent and create a new Topic
• In the Add a tool you will find the shared topic we created

• Configure the Prompt by passing input and capturing the output

• Save the Topic

• Now test the agent as shown below:

That’s it. The Tools page provides a centralized place for makers to create and manage functionality that can be used across agents within an environment.

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