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• Level L05
• T14
• 19 min read

Operate the connectors a department or company relies on: one list of every route from an assistant into a system, per-person access, a log line for every call, a check of third-party connectors before install, a daily test, and a retirement you can prove.

Matching textT14-L05 · Connect your tools · Level 5 Operator · 21-minute read, plus 3 hours of doing Run Your Organisation's Connectors: One List, Per-Person Access, a Log and a Clean Exit Nine routes an

• Level L04
• T14
• 18 min read

When the system your team needs has no connector, build one: a small MCP server with one read-only tool, a key that can only read, the fewest fields the task needs, and six tests including a write attempt that must fail. IT and the system's administrator agree before colleagues connect it.

Matching textT14-L04 · Connect your tools · Level 4 Integrator · 21-minute read, plus 3 hours of doing Build a Read-Only Connector for a System Your Assistant Can't Reach Yet The system without a connect

• Level L03
• T14
• 18 min read

Make a connector-based brief repeatable: saved instructions with a fixed scope and changing inputs, read-only tools, a test week with known answers, a check that each colleague's run reads the same files, a README and a fallback. The routine reads as whoever runs it, so you test it with each of them.

Matching textT14-L03 · Connect your tools · Level 3 Builder · 16-minute read, plus 2½ hours of doing Turn a Connector Brief Into a Routine Colleagues Can Rerun The brief only one person could make

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• 20 min video

Understand MCP components and external-tool connections. Conceptual, not Python build guide or authorisation audit; current SDK docs govern.

Matching textT14-L04: Hear MCP's creators explain how applications expose tools, resources and prompts. Use this conceptual introduction alongside the book's read-only Python build and permission tests.

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Connector administration, app registrations and audit logs. Entra logs do not prove complete MCP tool-call logging, per-person isolation, minimisation or retirement.

Matching textT14-L05: Understand the administrator's role in approving Claude's Microsoft 365 connection and reviewing delegated access. Follow current vendor guidance for permissions; use the book for tool-call…

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Save instructions and shared knowledge scope as an agent and preview behaviour. SharePoint Knowledge Agent, not book's exact interfaces; stop rules, fallback and colleague test-week unverified.

Matching textT14-L03: Use the instructions, agent-creation and preview sections beginning at 1:46, 3:01 and 5:20 to learn how saved instructions become a reusable SharePoint assistant. This September 2025…