u/Rose--Nylund

Hello! I'm building an agent to act as a sort of "live database" over a government API. Basically, the government here publishes a public API with all the data on public works projects, and I wanted an agent that plugs into it and works as a search tool.

When I set it up as a custom connector, it works great for me. The problem is sharing it: when I share the agent with someone else, they hit a wall needing permissions to the custom connector itself before they can use it.

I thought switching approaches would fix it, so I rebuilt it using the "REST API" tool option instead of a traditional custom connector. It worked just as well functionally, but under the hood it still creates something that behaves like a custom connector, and I'm back to the same sharing problem.

Is there another way to plug an API into an agent that doesn't require the people I share it with to also have permissions on the underlying connector? I only need to share this with a small group, not the whole org, but I'd like it to just work for them without extra setup on their end.

Any pointers appreciated

In the sence of, if you don't have a direct link to the website saved its like impossible to find. You google "Copilot Studio" on google, and in the first page there are no direct links to the page, only links to microsoft pages explaining what copilot studio is. Even worse on those pages most links lead keep you on the microsoft FAQ page. Trying to access it thru powerapps or power automate (Same thing, there is no direct link if you google them, usually have to scroll down couple links) you open the apps menu there and search "Copilot studio" there is nothing. Fully feels like they are trying to hide this app.

I tell Alexa to play “The cute by Olivia Rodrigo”, she says “playing The cure by Olivia Rodrigo” 10 seconds pass and ANOTHER random song starts playing. So if Alexa cant even play a song what is the point of having one?

I work in a construction company, in the bid sector. We have been having an information problem, we have no way to know what new bids are happening without having someone checking constantly. My country's public procurement's sector has an API for the data base that gets updated every couple hours, so I had the idea to create a copilot agent that we can use as a live database. Using powerapps, I made a custom connector and plug it into the agent, Im still doing some tweaks but it works fine.

We are trying to get bids from out of the country, and other countries also have this API infraestructure, so the idea is to make a massive agent that can access multiple country's database thru their respective API. My question is, can a single agent handle this task? Would creating a single agent for each country and having a single agent that can communicate with all of them better? Or is copilot studio still too limited to do this kind of task?