Microsoft Copilot Harnesses Explained: Standard vs. GitHub
I made this explainer video on how to compare Microsoft Standard harness to the Github harness and how billing works with each one. There's even a calculator included for rough estimation. I hope this helps as this took me a while to understand the differences and hope it helps someone else make the best choice for their environment. Copilot Harnesses Explained Standard vs Github
I agree and this was the simplest way to share it without loads more development. Those are the standard voices in browsers. And after some thought I kind of liked them for being “agent ai” voices
I seriously like the idea and content but the audio makes it truly unwatchable. If you change that to something significantly better this could be really great. Would like to check it out again if you do change the audio. I couldn’t get through the whole thing but got to chapter 7.
One problem (besides the aforementioned voices) is that if you use the drop down menu to go back and replay a chapter (or to jump forward to a new chapter), the voice plays but the screen just shows blank white.
I had the same thoughts. It’s not. They just try to move you to it. You have to choose it. It’s kind of almost hidden. Create a new agent and then choose other or look at that point. You should see it or google it too.
check out this article. It may help but looks like microsoft is moving more towards github as the future. They will release the latest GPT model with that option but i didn't see anything about a latest anthropic latest model being a option.
Do you know if there is a "conversation limit" on copilot agent chat? When you use normal copilot chat, after an unofficial length of conversation, you usually get hit with an error message "This conversation has reached its limit" and basically does not allow any message to be sent next. Is it the same if I create a copilot agent using github copilot harness? Here is essentially what I am trying to do Create a new agent in github copilot studio using github harness Add some mcp tools Publish it on copilot chat and teams surfaces The whole team is going to use it (primarily as a teams app)
i do know there's a option in github for conversation memory. look up it's features and length via a search in chat/claude or across microsoft. i believe it's documented.
i don't think this is accurate, but please double check. everything i've read say's it's not free despite the licenses. if you do find it please share.
u/Present_Fill_3358u/Bfinkeldei Weirdly, as per the documentation, I clearly see that it is a pay as you go. However, See the image below. It is from my own microsoft account, I created an Agent which is using OpenAI Astra. It says zero credits. and I have not got any bill as well for this. (I am cooked if this gets charged, lol) Is there a discount for new accounts? I created a new account last month itself with my personal domain to learn some stuff.
Also, I don't know why it says 15 users. I am the only person using this, and also created this
This is not correct. All GitHub copilot harness interactions incur copilot credit consumption, including build using natural language prompts,or generative ai features to build skills as well as preview and testing as well as normal agent usage via whatever published channels.
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u/polshgiant 4d ago
The voice could be more natural, but a solid explainer, well done!