Zava Employee Agent

SPFx 1.24.0 GA upgrade (October 28, 2026): Build dependencies target GA. React/ReactDOM use 18.3.1. Earlier readiness reports, screenshots, test counts, and tenant evidence remain historical, not fresh GA host certification. Restore was validated using the configured Microsoft npm proxy; npmjs.org did not yet expose all required GA packages. Use an approved registry with 1.24.0 available; do not commit credentials.

Powered by SPFx Copilot Components

Summary

Zava Employee Agent is an HR hub built with SPFx 1.24 Copilot components. It is the HR front door for Zava employees, not another HR chatbot.

Instead of returning walls of policy text, the agent renders work directly in the Microsoft Copilot canvas: balances, forms, cards, comparisons, calendars, timelines, and manager workflows. The core design principle is:

Chat asks; Copilot UX components render the answer, the action, and the proof in the canvas.

The solution contains ten component families. Each family has compact inline experiences for focused answers and actions, plus a full-screen experience for deeper work. The sample uses realistic mocked Zava HR data so it can be deployed and demonstrated without a live line-of-business system.

[!IMPORTANT] All 20 operational Copilot Components, the dedicated feature explorer, and all 50 internal full-screen routes are implemented. The production gate runs all behavior tests, validates GA dynamic MCP discovery, validates 33 gallery screenshots, and packages all components into one shared .sppkg. Authenticated Copilot prompt routing and the final manual accessibility/host matrix remain explicit pre-publication evidence gates in todo.md.

The product source brief is Zava-Employee-Agent-Intro-Brief.md. The canonical interaction and component contract is Zava-Employee-Agent-UX-Design.md, and implementation must follow agentic-creation-rules.md. For Copilot UX testing, use the copy/paste routing and parameter scenarios in Zava-Employee-Agent-Demo-Prompts.md. For a live presentation, use the 60-second primary demo or the timed 3-minute demo story and script. Longer sessions can use the 10-minute business value demo or 5-minute developer and architecture demo. For the wider launch, use the ten-video global social campaign.

Applies To

• SharePoint Framework 1.24.0 Copilot Components
• Microsoft Copilot declarative agents
• React 18 and Fluent UI React v9

The application uses React/ReactDOM 18.3.1 and persistent React 18 roots. Supported development versions are Node.js 22 (22.14 or later), 24, and 26.

Starter routing

Starter	Owning component tool
Show my HR dashboard for this week.	GetMyHRDashboard
Draft a vacation request for November 9 through November 13, 2026.	RequestTimeOff
Compare benefit plans for an employee with two children, prioritizing dental coverage and a low deductible.	CompareBenefitPlans
Show my mandatory learning due in the next 14 days.	GetRequiredLearning
Show the leave requests awaiting my approval.	GetApprovalInbox
Explore the employee and HR features this agent supports.	ExploreAgentCapabilitiesTool

Canonical starter targets distinguish the broad dashboard from the narrower ranked next-action component. The first five starters open distinct operational UX. The sixth opens a searchable, family-filtered catalog covering all 20 operational tools. Discovery stays in its own explorer in inline and full-screen modes, never falls back to the HR dashboard, and never reads private HR records or submits requests. Trying a prompt requires an explicit user action.

At a Glance

Metric	Target
Copilot Component families	10
Prompt-addressable Copilot Components/tools	20 operational tools across 10 families + 1 feature explorer
Full-screen sections	10, one per family
Inline surfaces	21, one per Copilot Component/tool
Hub entry point	1 Zava Employee Agent
Data source	Offline mocked HR data
Current implementation	21 of 21 components complete; 10 full-screen families and a dedicated explorer

Screenshots

Component Plan

Each named inline intent is its own SPFx Copilot Component and MCP app tool with a manifest GUID, tool description, minimal optional Zod schema, bundle entry, and agent registration. Components in a family share data/services, theme, and the full-screen destination; they do not share one generic view-multiplexed tool.

The canonical names, tool metadata, parameters, fixed fullscreen routes, and implementation order are defined in Zava-Employee-Agent-Component-Plan.md.

#	Component family	Intent components	Full-screen tab	Status
01	My HR Dashboard	5	Home	Complete
02	Policy Q&A	2	Policy	Complete
03	PTO & Leave	2	Time	Complete
04	Payroll Explainer	2	Money	Complete
05	Benefits & Life Events	2	Benefits	Complete
06	HR Case Desk	1	Support	Complete
07	Learning & Compliance	1	Learning	Complete
08	Total Rewards	1	Rewards	Complete
09	Manager Team Hub	2	Team	Complete
10	Org & People Graph	2	People	Complete

Add Future Components

[!IMPORTANT] Always add a new inline Copilot Component with the supported Yeoman command-line generator. Do not manually build, copy, or rename a component structure in the solution. Generate the clean component first, then update its code to the standards and implementation model in agentic-creation-rules.md.

All 21 current-target components already exist. If an optimal-future intent is explicitly promoted, create it from the solution root with the catalog's component name:

yo @microsoft/sharepoint --component-type copilotComponent --component-name NameOfTheComponent --framework react --skip-install
npm install

After each generation, verify that the generator added the component bundle and agent registration. Then adapt the generated entry point, properties schema, React views, styles, and mock-data service.

Experience Model

Inline

Each component exposes one focused inline intent. Its tool description drives MCP app routing, and its optional parameters visibly prefill or filter the compact result. It includes Expand when the host advertises the fullscreen display mode.

Full Screen

The design target is a consistent full-screen HR workspace with:

• A left navigation rail for Home, Policy, Leave, Payroll, Benefits, Support, Learning, Rewards, Team, and People.
• A family-colored header with the signed-in user, time-aware greeting, area state, and key metrics.
• An area-specific priority banner that opens a mocked AI-style action plan in a right-side panel.
• A primary content area with cards, charts, tables, forms, or timelines appropriate to the family.
• Guided actions that stay in the Copilot canvas.
• A settings experience stored only for the current browser session.

All 20 current-target intent components reuse one shared dashboard shell in full-screen mode. Each component has a fixed owning family and initial route; its normalized prompt parameters carry into that route. The shell then owns the rail, right-side panel, settings, and internal cross-family navigation. This retains MCP-level intent routing without creating unrelated full-screen implementations.

Each family tab also includes all five originally planned family experiences. The 30 catalog intents that were not promoted to inline Copilot Components are dashboard-only internal routes with complete mocked UX. “Optimal future” refers only to possible future MCP/inline promotion, not missing full-screen functionality.

The Home signature feature is My HR action plan. Its banner summarizes the most important mocked signals across all families, and Build my HR action plan opens a right-side panel that mimics AI thinking and streamed recommendations. Every recommendation can navigate directly to its owning family detail. No AI or other runtime API is called.

Parameter-Driven Rendering

Parameters change the component before it renders. The agent resolves intent and supplies typed, serializable values; the renderer does not infer business intent from display text.

Pattern	Example family	Typical parameters
Filtered summary	My HR Dashboard	focusArea, dateRange, showSensitive
Guided transaction	PTO & Leave	leaveType, startDate, endDate, reason
Explainability	Payroll Explainer	period, compareTo, includeDeductions
Comparison matrix	Benefits & Life Events	coverageTier, weighting, dependents
Private handoff	HR Case Desk	category, privacyLevel, subject
Manager scope	Manager Team Hub	teamId, includeApprovals, includeRisk

Prompt-derived values visibly prefill editable controls and are validated before any action. For example, I'd like vacation from August 4th to August 12th, 2027 for a family trip opens the PTO & Leave request variant with leaveType, startDate, endDate, and reason prefilled. The component then calculates working days and mocked calendar or coverage conflicts for the user to review. It never submits directly from prompt values.

The complete schemas, normalization lifecycle, examples, and per-family dashboard compositions are defined in Zava-Employee-Agent-UX-Design.md.

Data Model

The first implementation is fully offline. UI components consume mocked data through service interfaces so live Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, or HR-system implementations can replace the mock without rewriting the views.

Mock data should resemble likely live shapes for:

Domain	Likely live source
User and profile photo	Microsoft Graph /me and /me/photo/$value
Calendar and absence	Microsoft Graph events or calendar view
People and organization	Microsoft Graph manager, direct reports, and users
Policies	SharePoint policy library and search
HR cases	SharePoint list or HR case connector
Leave, payroll, benefits, rewards	Graph-shaped projection from HR connectors
Learning	Viva Learning or task-based assignments

Mock dates use relative offsets so demonstrations remain current. Images required at runtime are generated into the typed mock-data registry as base64 data URIs; the mock experience does not depend on image hosting, profile-photo endpoints, or external services. All 20 component entries share one production bundle, so this registry is emitted once rather than repeated per tool. Run npm run generate:mock-media after changing a source image and npm run check:mock-media to verify the registry is current.

Design Assets

The canonical Family 01 implementation references are generated from one reproducible offline design source. See assets/README.md for the complete catalog and legacy mapping.

The source HTML remains a historical transition-review prototype. Final publication images are captured from the real React implementation through npm run start:ux-review; the harness can render all 20 inline tools and all ten full-screen families without a tenant.

• Home inline design source
• Home wide design source
• Home action-plan design source
• Home narrow design source
• Home mobile design source

The remaining pc-* images under assets/design-sources/legacy-people-compass/ are composite mockups from the People Compass design review that informed the Zava brief. Their interaction and layout concepts remain useful for Families 02-10, but they are legacy source material rather than canonical implementation references or publication screenshots.

Known Design Inconsistencies

• The images still contain the old People Compass name and IPeopleCompassDataService label. The implementation must use Zava Employee Agent naming.
• Inline asset filenames are shifted: for example, pc-02-policy-qa-inline.png visibly contains the family 01 My HR Dashboard designs, pc-03-pto-leave-inline.png contains family 02 Policy Q&A, and pc-10-people-graph-inline.png contains family 09 Manager Team Hub.
• pc-full-benefits-life-events.png is not a Benefits full-screen design; it contains the family 10 Org & People Graph inline designs.
• The remaining full-screen filenames are also shifted. For example, pc-full-home-dashboard.png shows Benefits & Life Events, pc-full-policy-answers.png shows Org & People Graph, and pc-full-total-rewards.png shows Time & Leave.
• Family 01 has historical Zava inline, wide, panel-open, narrow, and mobile design references. Final implementation screenshots for every family now live directly under assets/.
• The original brief required a persistent Ask the agent input at the top-right, while the reviewed designs show settings. The canonical UX uses the Copilot host for conversation and an area priority banner for in-component guidance, avoiding a second competing prompt box.
• The brief lists the rail in component-family order, while the designs use the shorthand order Home, Time, Money, Benefits, Rewards, Policy, Support, Learning, Team, People.
• The designs imply one persistent shell while the product requires multiple callable intents. The canonical architecture keeps 20 value-ranked tools and reuses one shared full-screen shell.

Treat these boards as provenance only. Use the implementation screenshots directly under assets/ for README, gallery, review, and publication.

Zava Brand

• Company: Zava, Microsoft's fictional demonstration company.
• Tone: Personal and approachable, with employee-first language such as "Your leave balance" and "Your next best action."
• Typography: Aptos Display and Aptos where available.
• Palette: Zava brand colors may guide design intent, but runtime colors must use Fluent UI v9 theme tokens and remain accessible in light and dark host themes.
• Catalog mark: A white employee silhouette with a gold agent spark on Zava blue (#0F6CBD). The 192 × 192 color icon keeps the mark inside the 120 × 120 safe region; the matching 32 × 32 outline icon uses white pixels on transparency. Regenerate both with ./scripts/generate-agent-icons.ps1.

Technology and Standards

• SharePoint Framework 1.24 Copilot Components, not classic web parts.
• Heft build system, not Gulp.
• React 18 functional components.
• Fluent UI React v9 components, icons, and theme tokens.
• Zod schemas with descriptions for every tool property.
• Host-derived theme, dimensions, and display mode.
• Accessible keyboard behavior and reduced-motion support.
• Mock data first, with live integrations deferred.

Build

Prerequisites

• Node.js >=22.14.0 <23.0.0
• Yeoman and the SharePoint Framework generator
• Heft
• A Microsoft 365 tenant that supports SPFx 1.24 Copilot Components for deployment testing

npm install -g yo @microsoft/generator-sharepoint @rushstack/heft
npm install
heft test --clean

For a production package:

npm run build

The final gate verifies generated mock media, runs the clean production test suite, packages the solution, validates all generated API-plugin functions and MCP tools, and audits the final .sppkg for stale JavaScript, duplicated media, icon-font payloads, and size regressions.

The package path configured by the project is sharepoint/solution/zava-employee-agent.sppkg.

Minimal Path to Awesome

1. Deploy the ready-made sharepoint/solution/zava-employee-agent.sppkg to the tenant app catalog, or run npm install and npm run build.
2. Add the generated Zava Employee Agent to Microsoft Copilot.
3. Start a fresh conversation and use the exact prompts in Zava-Employee-Agent-Demo-Prompts.md.
4. Confirm prompt values are visible and editable before completing any mocked action.

Video: test the package in Microsoft 365

Use this walkthrough to deploy and test SPFx Copilot component .sppkg packages in a Microsoft 365 tenant:

Watch on YouTube

The ready-made package is intended for sample and demo tenants. Complete tenant-specific privacy, accessibility, localization, security, and connector validation before production adoption.

Local UX Review

Run the real React surfaces without a tenant:

npm run start:ux-review

Open http://127.0.0.1:4401. The toolbar switches intent, family, width, display mode, and theme. Query parameters such as ?mode=fullscreen&family=team&width=wide&clean=1 make review and screenshot states reproducible. This harness validates local UX behavior, not authenticated tenant CSP, iframe focus, high contrast, or screen-reader output.

Validation Status

• 178 tests pass with zero failures, including independent Home/family root lifecycle coverage.
• All 20 manifests, component entries, registrations, compiled schemas, and GA dynamic MCP discovery validate.
• All 32 implementation screenshots validate against assets/sample.json.
• The final package contains one shared hashed JavaScript bundle and no stale JavaScript, duplicate cross-bundle media, or Fluent icon-font payload.
• Authenticated Copilot routing, iframe focus, screen-reader, and Windows high-contrast checks remain explicit manual gates in todo.md.

Demo and Testing

• 60-second primary demo
• 3-minute dynamic UX demo
• 10-minute business value demo
• 5-minute developer and architecture demo
• 20-component prompt catalog
• Unified sample gallery metadata
• Experience and implementation tracker
• Reusable agentic creation rules

Current Solution Structure

samples/zava-employee-agent/
|-- README.md
|-- Zava-Employee-Agent-Intro-Brief.md
|-- agentic-creation-rules.md
|-- assets/                                 # source design mockups
|-- config/                                 # Heft, SPFx, and Copilot registration
|-- copilot/                                # declarative agent and plugin manifests
|-- src/
|   `-- copilotComponents/
|       |-- getMyHrDashboard/               # Home summary component and shared shell
|       |-- approvalInbox/                   # representative manager workflow
|       `-- ...                              # 18 additional intent components
|-- teams/
`-- package.json

As components are generated, each receives its own folder under src/copilotComponents/, bundle entry in config/config.json, component GUID registration in config/copilot-agent.json, and tool definition in its component manifest.

Version History

Version	Date	Comments
Unreleased	October 28, 2026	Upgrade to SPFx 1.24.0 GA; React/ReactDOM 18.3.1 and Heft 1.3.2.
1.0	August 10, 2026	Initial scaffold
1.1	August 11, 2026	Updated Zava naming and ten-component implementation plan
1.2	August 11, 2026	Added canonical UX, action-plan, and prompt-parameter contracts
1.3	August 11, 2026	Added shared offline mock foundation and Family 01 inline baseline
1.4	August 11, 2026	Added shared full-screen Home shell and streamed My HR action plan
1.5	August 12, 2026	Added reusable UI primitives, improved leave chart, and functional session settings
1.6	August 12, 2026	Enabled ten-family full-screen navigation with color-coded title-only placeholders
1.7	August 12, 2026	Added ten unique reusable family themes with same-hue dark-to-light gradients
1.8	August 12, 2026	Added licensed anniversary photography, Work IQ welcome polish, and a real Workbench review avatar
1.9	August 12, 2026	Replanned the solution as 50 intent-specific Copilot Components sharing one ten-tab full-screen shell
2.0	August 12, 2026	Completed five independent Home intent components with MCP routing and shared full-screen routes
2.1	August 13, 2026	Value-ranked the inline portfolio to 20 current tools and moved 30 candidates to optimal future
2.2	August 21, 2026	Added shared production bundling, package/plugin audits, Team roster portraits, and final demo/readiness documentation

Disclaimer

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