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A SharePoint agent is a file

Seven screens. About three minutes.

One page with ruled lines, labelled point agent. a file

It is a file.

That is the surprising part.

A dashed frame labelled the site holding a folder labelled Site Assets, holding one green file. the siteSite Assets

It lives in a folder.

Same folder as the pictures and the logos.

A key beside the file, labelled whoever can open the file. who can open it

File permissions decide.

No new setting, no new list to manage.

A box labelled you make it with an arrow to a box labelled it sits there, and a slate note saying it does not appear anywhere. you make itit sits therenothing announces it

Nothing tells anybody it exists.

You have to send people to it.

A search box labelled dot agent with three green files beside it. search .agent

You can go looking for them.

Search a site for the words dot agent and see what turns up.

Do today

Search one SharePoint site you use for the file ending .agent and see whether anybody has made one.

That's the whole thing