{"slug":"copilot-data-readiness-protocol","title":"copilot-data-readiness-protocol","summary":"Use this skill before enabling Microsoft 365 Copilot for any user population. Runs an oversharing assessment, applies sensitivity labels and DLP controls, validates permissions baseline, and confirms a secure data foundation exists. Orchestrates m365-copilot-readiness-governance-","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:00.275865Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: copilot-data-readiness-protocol\ndescription: Use this skill before enabling Microsoft 365 Copilot for any user population. Runs an oversharing assessment, applies sensitivity labels and DLP controls, validates permissions baseline, and confirms a secure data foundation exists. Orchestrates m365-copilot-readiness-governance-agent as primary, m365-identity-zero-trust-agent for identity-layer controls, and copilot-governance-maestro-agent for cross-pillar sign-off. Hard refusal: Microsoft 365 Copilot must not be enabled for any user until the oversharing baseline is established and remediated. Never requests credentials, tenant IDs, or customer data. Production-impacting steps escalate to the relevant data owner or compliance team.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-06-16\"\ncategory: ai\nlifecycle: experimental</h2>\n<h1>Copilot Data Readiness Protocol</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Microsoft 365 Copilot surfaces content that users already have permission to\naccess. If that content is over-shared, unlabelled, or poorly governed, Copilot\namplifies the exposure. This skill defines the mandatory readiness sequence that\nmust complete before Copilot is enabled: oversharing baseline, sensitivity\nlabelling, DLP guardrails, and a permissions baseline sign-off. It exists so\norganisations never enable Copilot into an ungoverned data estate. It does not\nconfigure production systems; it produces structured recommendations that data\nowners and security teams confirm.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An organisation is planning to enable Microsoft 365 Copilot for the first time.</li>\n<li>Copilot is expanding to new user groups and the data estate for those users\nhas not been assessed.</li>\n<li>A periodic data readiness review is due for an active Copilot deployment.</li>\n<li>An oversharing alert has been raised by Microsoft Purview DSPM and must be\nassessed before Copilot access continues.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When NOT to use</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Copilot is already enabled and this is a routine operational review with no\nnew user groups — use the periodic governance review workflow instead.</li>\n<li>The matter is a data breach or security incident — route to the incident\nresponse protocol.</li>\n<li>The organisation has not yet deployed Microsoft Purview or SharePoint Advanced\nManagement — prerequisites are not met; this protocol cannot proceed.</li>\n<li>You need live tenant configuration changes — escalate to the data owner;\nthis protocol is recommendation-only.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Participating agents</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><code>m365-copilot-readiness-governance-agent</code> (primary — oversharing assessment, sensitivity labels, DLP, permissions baseline)</li>\n<li><code>m365-identity-zero-trust-agent</code> (secondary — Conditional Access, identity-layer least privilege)</li>\n<li><code>copilot-governance-maestro-agent</code> (cross-pillar sign-off and final readiness gate)</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Inputs required</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tenant-level SharePoint sharing settings and EEEU (Everyone except external\nusers) status</li>\n<li>Microsoft Purview DSPM Data Risk Assessment output (or permission to run one)</li>\n<li>SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) Content Management Assessment output</li>\n<li>List of user groups proposed for Copilot enablement</li>\n<li>Existing sensitivity label taxonomy and publishing scope</li>\n<li>DLP policy inventory for Microsoft 365 workloads</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Evidence required</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Purview is deployed and DSPM is active</li>\n<li>SharePoint Advanced Management is licensed and configured</li>\n<li>Sensitivity labels are published to users in scope</li>\n<li>Purview Audit is enabled for Copilot interaction activity</li>\n<li>A data owner is identified for each high-risk site</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Workflow</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Oversharing baseline</strong> — Run (or review) the Microsoft Purview DSPM Data\nRisk Assessment and SAM Content Management Assessment. Identify sites with\nEEEU access, broken permission inheritance, ownerless sites, inactive sites,\nand sensitive content exposed broadly.</li>\n<li><strong>Interim protections</strong> — Before remediating, apply SAM Restricted Content\nDiscovery (RCD) to exclude high-risk sites from Copilot discovery. Apply\nPurview DLP policies scoped to the Copilot location to exclude sensitive\ncontent from grounding.</li>\n<li><strong>Sensitivity label review</strong> — Confirm that sensitivity labels are published\nto all users in scope. Identify content lacking labels on high-risk sites.\nDraft labelling recommendations for data owners.</li>\n<li><strong>Permissions remediation</strong> — For sites flagged as high-risk: remove\nexcessive access and company-wide sharing links, correct broken inheritance,\nrescope sharing to approved users or groups, confirm site ownership.</li>\n<li><strong>Gate 1 — Oversharing remediation sign-off</strong> — Confirm that all\ncritical-risk sites have been remediated or have accepted interim protections.\nDo not proceed to Copilot enablement without this sign-off from the data\nowner and copilot-governance-maestro-agent.</li>\n<li><strong>Identity layer check</strong> — Invoke m365-identity-zero-trust-agent to confirm\nthat Conditional Access policies for Copilot users enforce MFA and device\ncompliance. Flag any gaps.</li>\n<li><strong>DLP guardrails</strong> — Confirm DLP policies cover the Copilot location and\nare actively monitoring sensitive content interactions. Validate Insider Risk\nManagement (IRM) adaptive protection is configured for high-risk users.</li>\n<li><strong>Gate 2 — Permissions baseline</strong> — Produce a permissions baseline document:\nconfirmed label coverage rate, EEEU status, high-risk site count (open vs.\nremediated), DLP policy coverage. This is the minimum viable baseline\nbefore Copilot enablement.</li>\n<li><strong>Copilot readiness recommendation</strong> — copilot-governance-maestro-agent\nproduces a go / conditional-go / no-go recommendation per user group.\nConditional-go requires time-bound remediation commitments.</li>\n<li><strong>Human confirmation</strong> — Route the readiness recommendation to the data\nowner, security team, and Copilot programme owner for final sign-off.\nThis protocol never enables Copilot autonomously.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Decision gates</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Gate</th>\n<th>Condition</th>\n<th>Action</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Oversharing baseline</td>\n<td>Purview DSPM or SAM assessment not run</td>\n<td>Block enablement; run assessment first</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Critical-risk sites unmediated</td>\n<td>High-risk sites without interim protection or remediation</td>\n<td>Block enablement; apply RCD and DLP interim controls</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>EEEU active at tenant level</td>\n<td>Everyone except external users enabled tenant-wide</td>\n<td>Escalate to SharePoint admin; recommend disabling before enablement</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sensitivity label gap</td>\n<td>&gt;20% of content on high-risk sites lacks labels</td>\n<td>Require labelling sprint before go-live</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Identity layer gap</td>\n<td>MFA or device compliance not enforced for Copilot users</td>\n<td>Invoke m365-identity-zero-trust-agent; hold enablement</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Refusal triggers</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard refusal: do not recommend Copilot enablement without an oversharing\nbaseline. This is unconditional.</li>\n<li>Stop if the Purview DSPM assessment has not been run — do not substitute\nmanual estimates for a real assessment.</li>\n<li>Stop if credentials, tenant IDs, or customer PII are requested to perform\nthis assessment — refuse and escalate.</li>\n<li>Stop if the data owner cannot be identified for a critical-risk site — flag\nas a blocker; do not proceed past Gate 1.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Handoff rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>All handoffs carry: tenant_scope, skill_id, skill_version, invoked_by,\noversharing_risk_level, label_coverage_rate, gate_status, open_questions,\ndo_not_do_list.</li>\n<li>Gate 1 sign-off must include the data owner name/role, the date, and a\nstatement of residual risk accepted.</li>\n<li>copilot-governance-maestro-agent's readiness recommendation is the final\ncross-pillar artefact; it must not be bypassed.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>KPIs</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Oversharing risk sites: critical / high / medium count (pre- vs. post-remediation)</li>\n<li>Sensitivity label coverage rate (% of files on high-risk sites labelled)</li>\n<li>EEEU status: tenant-level and site-level</li>\n<li>DLP policy coverage for Copilot location</li>\n<li>Time from assessment to enablement (days)</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot/secure-govern-copilot-foundational-deployment-guidance\">https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot/secure-govern-copilot-foundational-deployment-guidance</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot/configure-secure-governed-data-foundation-microsoft-365-copilot\">https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot/configure-secure-governed-data-foundation-microsoft-365-copilot</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/get-ready-copilot-sharepoint-advanced-management\">https://learn.microsoft.com/sharepoint/get-ready-copilot-sharepoint-advanced-management</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/data-security-posture-management-learn-about\">https://learn.microsoft.com/purview/data-security-posture-management-learn-about</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/security/zero-trust/copilots/zero-trust-microsoft-365-copilot\">https://learn.microsoft.com/security/zero-trust/copilots/zero-trust-microsoft-365-copilot</a></li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":2469,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":11844,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":8383,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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