The New Teams CLI

2026.04.28 · 3 min readFrom Prompt to Production: Teams Agent Setup, SimplifiedAUTHORS :Aamir Jawaid, Kavin Singh, Umang SehgalTOPICS :teams-sdkclipreviewannouncementskillsYou want to build a Teams agent. Maybe it answers customer questions from a knowledge base. Maybe it runs your team's standups. The interesting part is the logic, the thing the agent actually does. But before you write a single line of that logic, you have to register it with Teams. That takes a number of steps. How It Works Today​ Getting an agent into Teams requires configuring an identity, generating credentials, authoring a manifest, and wiring it all together. These steps span the Azure portal, Developer Portal, and your editor. Each one is straightforward on its own, but the context-switching between them adds up.

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