{"id":2061,"date":"2022-02-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-30T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:00:14","slug":"power-virtual-agents-bots-as-skills-with-bot-framework-bots-general-availability","status":"publish","type":"copilot","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/blog\/copilot-studio\/power-virtual-agents-bots-as-skills-with-bot-framework-bots-general-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Virtual Agents bots as skills with Bot Framework bots &#8211; General Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are happy to announce that the feature enabling Power Virtual Agents bots to be used as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/bot-service\/skills-conceptual?view=azure-bot-service-4.0\" rel=\"nofollow\">skills<\/a>&nbsp;with Bot Framework bots has reached General Availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have Bot Framework bots deployed in your organization, you can now easily 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src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/composer_addskillzip.webp\" alt=\"Add a Power Virtual Agents bot as a skill in Composer\" class=\"wp-image-2067 webp-format\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/composer_addskillzip.webp\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Add a Power Virtual Agents bot as a skill in Composer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Call a specific Power Virtual Agents skill topic from a Composer bot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter has-custom-border size-full wp-image-2065\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-copilot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/activitywithtopicname.webp\" alt=\"Use Activity to invoke a topic in a Power Virtual Agents skill.\" class=\"wp-image-2065 webp-format\" 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