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Add Rippit to an agent

  1. Open the Tools page for your agent.
  2. Select Add a tool, then New tool.
  3. Select Model Context Protocol. The MCP onboarding wizard opens.
  4. Fill in:
Write a real description: Copilot Studio reads it at runtime to decide whether Rippit is relevant to a question, so “Rippit” alone will cause the agent to skip it. Something like “Analyzes customer support conversation data: volume drivers, themes, sentiment, and QA results” works well.
  1. For authentication, select OAuth 2.0.
  2. For the OAuth type, select Dynamic discovery.
  3. Select Create, then Next.
  4. On Add tool, select Create a new connection, then Add to agent.
Dynamic discovery is the option to use. Copilot Studio reads Rippit’s published metadata and registers itself. You do not need the Dynamic or Manual options, which exist for servers that can’t advertise their own endpoints.

Signing in

Each user of the agent authenticates with their own Rippit account the first time the agent calls Rippit, via a consent card in the chat. Access is scoped to that user’s Rippit permissions.

Agent instructions

Adding agent instructions is usually required to get a Copilot Studio agent working well with Rippit. Without them, the agent tends to stop and ask the user which column to aggregate or how to filter a table. Those are questions an end user can’t answer, and Copilot Studio asks them whenever its orchestrator can’t fill a tool input on its own. MCP tools don’t have the per-input settings that other Copilot Studio tool types do, so the agent’s Instructions field is where to fix it. Paste the block below into your agent’s Instructions field as a starting point. It works as written, but treat it as a template: edit the role, tone, and output rules to match your team and the questions your users actually ask.

Things to know

Streamable HTTP only. Copilot Studio dropped SSE support for MCP, and Rippit speaks Streamable HTTP, so this is already correct, but it’s why older MCP setup guides don’t apply. Power Platform data policies apply. Copilot Studio reaches MCP servers through Power Platform connectors, so any DLP policy that governs connectors also governs Rippit. If a locked-down environment blocks the connection, that policy is where to look. Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agents are a separate path. MCP plugins there are configured with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit rather than the Copilot Studio wizard. The same endpoint and dynamic registration apply.

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