# Step 3 — give it actions

Actions are how an agent does something: a Power Automate cloud flow, a connector (Outlook, Teams, SQL, ServiceNow), a Dataverse write, or a REST API. Describe each action in plain language — the model reads that description to decide when to call it.

Canonical: https://robauto.ai/learn/microsoft-agents/6

_Deploy Agents on Microsoft: Copilot Studio, Fabric & Power Platform — lesson 6 of 20 (PLAYBOOK)_

Actions are how an agent does something: a Power Automate cloud flow, a connector (Outlook, Teams, SQL, ServiceNow), a Dataverse write, or a REST API. Describe each action in plain language — the model reads that description to decide when to call it.

Source: [Microsoft Learn — Add actions](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-copilot-studio/advanced-plugin-actions?utm_source=robauto)

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