Configure agent response formatting

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Decision	Message node text	Quick replies on a Message node	Multiple choice options on a Question node	Adaptive Card on either node
What you author	Wording, basic formatting, and variables	Wording plus buttons that suggest a reply or an action	Wording plus the values under Options for user	A JSON payload the host turns into native UI
Does the turn capture a validated value?	No	No; a selection comes back as an ordinary message	Yes; saved to the node's variable, with Reprompt and No valid entity found behind it	Only through the separate interactive Adaptive Card node
Can the user type something else?	Not applicable	Yes, and the topic has to handle the free text	Yes, and the response is matched against the options	Yes
Published per-channel constraint	Markdown is Partially Supported in Teams and Facebook	Some channels don't support quick replies, and some limit how many show at once	Teams up to six as a hero card; Facebook up to 13	Host caps the schema version, and Action.Execute is unsupported in some hosts
Voice delivery	Spoken as written unless the node carries a speech override	Not a voice construct	Spoken as written unless the node carries a speech override	Speech operations are unsupported and speech messages are not sent on the Microsoft 365 Copilot channel

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