Question

A financial services company has built a custom connector that a Copilot Studio agent uses to call an internal loan-scoring API. The connector was authored and tested directly in the production environment by a citizen developer. The AI Center of Excellence is now formalizing the ALM process for connectors, actions, and agents. During a governance review, architects find that the connector's definition (host, operations, and authentication) exists only in production and cannot be reliably reproduced in a new development environment. Which ALM design change should the architect prioritize to ensure the connector can be governed and promoted consistently across environments?

Accepted Answer

Package the custom connector as a component inside a managed solution and promote it through dev, test, and production environments using solution deployment pipelines.

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Export the connector's OpenAPI file manually and email it to administrators who recreate it by hand in each target environment.

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Grant the citizen developer System Administrator rights in all three environments so the connector can be edited wherever it is needed.

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Convert the custom connector into a certified connector by submitting it to Microsoft for public listing in the connector gallery.