bcquality/community/knowledge/agents/wire-all-three-agent-interfaces.md
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Improve partner onboarding and documentation navigation (#174)
Lead with a complete plugin quick start and add task-oriented usage, troubleshooting, customization, and contribution guides. Preserve the broader plugin framing, correct conflicting contract guidance, support Agents folder reviews, and align repository validation. Convert existing sample references to clickable links without changing knowledge rules.

Co-authored-by: Jesper Schulz-Wedde <jesper.schulzwedde@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-09 17:31:03 +02:00

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bc-version: [27..]
domain: agents
keywords: [agent-metadata-provider, iagentfactory, iagentmetadata, iagenttaskexecution, enumextension, implementation]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
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# Wire all three agent interfaces on the metadata provider
## Description
An AL agent type is registered by extending `Agent Metadata Provider`. The platform locates factory, metadata, and task-execution behaviour only through the `Implementation` property on that enum value. Omitting `IAgentFactory`, `IAgentMetadata`, or `IAgentTaskExecution` leaves create, UI identity, or task runs unbound. Models often ship a single codeunit and skip the enum wiring.
## Best Practice
On the enum value, set `Implementation` for all three interfaces, each pointing at a dedicated codeunit. Keep factory (create, defaults, first-time setup), metadata (setup page, summary, annotations), and task execution (message analysis, intervention suggestions) in separate objects.
See sample: [`wire-all-three-agent-interfaces.good.al`](wire-all-three-agent-interfaces.good.al).
## Anti Pattern
An `Agent Metadata Provider` value with no `Implementation`, only one interface mapped, or all three interfaces pointing at one catch-all codeunit that cannot satisfy the contracts. Detection signal: enumextension of `Agent Metadata Provider` whose value does not list `IAgentFactory`, `IAgentMetadata`, and `IAgentTaskExecution`.
See sample: [`wire-all-three-agent-interfaces.bad.al`](wire-all-three-agent-interfaces.bad.al).
## See also
`register-copilot-capability-for-the-agent.md` covers the feature capability linked by the factory implementation.