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Building a Federated Copilot: Part 1, Identity Before Integration
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Building a Federated Copilot: Part 1, Identity Before Integration

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An external AI agent should be able to help a partner user work with an internal Copilot Studio agent. The partner authenticates with PingFederate, does not have an Entra account and should not acquire one as an accidental side effect of using the application.

That requirement turns a chatbot integration into an identity engineering project. We need to know which human approved the work, which registered agent performs it, what that agent may do, and whether the permission is still active when a result leaves the system.

This six-part series follows the implementation from a local simulation through real PingFederate containers, Vault custody, Copilot Studio authentication, selected-site SharePoint access and an Ionic React Android application. It includes mistakes and unresolved work because those boundaries determine what the system can honestly claim.

All domains, tenant details and identities in examples are illustrative. Commands refer to the implementation's repository structure.…

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