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Declarative Agent

ESA, The Environment Sustainability Agent using Microsoft 365 Copilot

This sample showcases how to build a declarative agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot connected to a SharePoint site as knowledge base, named ESA, the Environment Sustainability Agent. ESA is an intelligent assistant developed to assist organizations in monitoring and optimizing their environmental impact.

Rabia Williams
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Declarative agent showing energy consumption analysis
Sample type
Declarative Agent
Last updated
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License
MIT

About this sample

This sample showcases how to build a declarative agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot connected to a SharePoint site as knowledge base designed to help organizations monitor and optimize their environmental impact. It analyzes data on energy consumption,environment compliance, and carbon emissions, providing actionable insights to reduce inefficiencies and enhance sustainability practices. By guiding companies toward more eco-friendly operations, this AI helps achieve long-term sustainability goals while reducing operational costs.

PLATFORM
Node.js
LANGUAGE
TypeScript
API-PLUGIN
No
GRAPH-CONNECTOR
No
SHAREPOINT
Yes

Setup and usage

Sample documentation

The ESA - The Environment Sustainability Agent is an intelligent assistant designed to help organizations monitor and optimize their environmental impact. It analyzes data on energy consumption,environment compliance, and carbon emissions, providing actionable insights to reduce inefficiencies and enhance sustainability practices. By guiding companies toward more eco-friendly operations, this AI helps achieve long-term sustainability goals while reducing operational costs.

Summary

This sample illustrates the following concepts:

  • Building a declarative agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot with instructions
  • Adding a SharePoint capability to the agent

picture of the app in action

Prerequisites

Contributors

Version history

Version Date Comments
1.0 October 22, 2025 Initial release
1.1 Nov 14, 2025 Added real reports and updated conversation starters

Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Minimal Path to Awesome

  • Clone this repository and in your Visual Studio Code, open folder samples/da-environmentSustainability
  • Alternatively you can also download this solution as a .ZIP file then unzip it and go to samples/da-environmentSustainability folder from your Visual Studio Code window
  • Open the Teams Toolkit extension and sign in to your Microsoft 365 tenant with Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Copy the files like Microsoft 2024 Environmental Sustainability Reportand other PDF files in docs folder and upload into a SharePoint site in the same Microsoft 365 tenant which you used to sign to Teams Toolkit
  • Update the environment variable SP_SITE_URL in the .env.dev file with value of the SharePoint site where the docs were uploaded
  • Under the Teams Toolkit tab in Visual Studio Code, click "Provision" to install the application

Click provision

  • Go to Copilot app and on the agent panel choose da-environmentSustainability
  • Use the conversation starters to see the magic!

Features

  • Declarative agent with SharePoint capability