Welcome to the 70th edition of Age of Copilots newsletter!
This newsletter has a recent list of articles and videos to update developers with latest and upcoming developments in Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Copilots and Microsoft AI delivered weekly to your inbox.
Customize Microsoft 365 Copilot chat in model-driven apps (preview) - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn
This article describes the different types of agents including Copilot Studio agents you can build and integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot chat in model-driven apps. You’ll learn about the capabilities and use cases for each agent type, helping you choose the right approach for your customization needs.
Copilot Studio Prompt Builder guide
Microsoft shared the Copilot Studio Prompt Builder guide
New Copilot Developer Camp Lab: Connected Agents using Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit
Rabia Williams shares a brand‑new lab is live for developers building agentic, real‑world solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
👉 Start the lab: https://lnkd.in/gG56gbHj
👉🏼 Overview video: https://lnkd.in/gFbdAhmw
Conversations that Convert: Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents | Microsoft Advertising
Copilot Checkout enables conversational purchasing directly in Copilot. It works with partners including PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and Etsy.
Migrating from Agent Builder (Copilot Studio Lite) to Copilot Studio
In this article, Holger Imbery shares how to transition from the simplified Agent Builder within Microsoft 365 Copilot to the full-featured Copilot Studio environment.
Microsoft Copilot Studio: When to Build, When to Extend, and When to Step Away | LinkedIn
In this article Shrutika walks through when to build vs when to extend an agent using Copilot Studio
In this article, Harshavardhan talks about ACP(Agentic Commerce Protocol) and UCP(Universal Commerce Protocol)protocols that enable shopping within AI Assistants.
Connect To Dataverse Knowledge In Copilot Studio
In this article, Matthew Devaney shows how you can connect an agent to Dataverse knowledge in Copilot Studio.
Options to Connect Agents with Copilot Studio Agents
In this article, Isha Kapoor covers the options to connect agents with Copilot Studio
In this video, Daniel Christian walks through the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol and how it works within Copilot Studio Full Service.
In this video Dewain Robinson goes over the function of instructions and descriptions in Copilot Studio. I explain how each are used and how to leverage them to ensure that your agent behaves and orchestrates in the way you want.
Microsoft is working on two new Copilot Studio certifications, and they target very different audiences. In this video Vlad, breaks down the public info available today so you can understand what’s coming and how to prepare.
Copilot Studio Agent Maker (AB-610): Built for makers, business users, and IT pros creating low-code agents in Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio Agent Developer (AB-620): Built for developers and advanced makers building enterprise-grade agent solutions, including integrations and advanced capabilities.
Give your Copilot agent a body, face and a voice
Marc André Schröder-Zhou demonstrates how to combine the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK with Azure AI text-to-speech avatars to give agents a face, a voice and responsive behavior. The demo shows how to embed the agent on a webpage, listen for message events and route them to a real-time avatar that speaks both user prompts and agent replies.📺 Watch the video → https://lnkd.in/gA4Zg9ai
In this demo, Damien Bird shows how incoming CSV files can be transformed into structured Excel reports and visual charts inside a Power Automate flow — without custom code or external services.
This demo is from the weekly Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call - 18th of November
Learn how to build an Autonomous Copilot Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio with by Shervin Shaffie to de-clutter your Outlook Inbox by automatically sorting, organizing and notifying you of urgent emails in Microsoft Teams
Connect native apps to Copilot Studio agents | Power Platform Shorts
You can now integrate your agent into a native application using the Agent Client SDK - allowing developers to embed conversational agents directly into mobile or desktop apps for rich, contextual interactions without relying on external channels.
Nathan Rose shows you how to create and deploy AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio using Dataverse MCP (Model Context Protocol) in under 3 minutes! This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to leverage M365 Copilot and Power Platform to build a working AI agent from ideation to deployment.
This video by Girish Uppal shows you how to use tools in Copilot Studio, focusing on custom connectors. Girish Uppal demonstrates how to connect to a specific tool using a Swagger file, which is crucial for any API development. Understanding this process is key for efficient business service integration.
Stop Building Boring Dashboards: Executive Visuals with Copilot Studio Code Interpreter
Are your Copilot Studio agents returning boring, standard charts? It’s time to upgrade. In this video, Graham Hosking shows you how to unlock the full power of the Code Interpreter to create “Executive-Grade” visualisations that tell a story, not just report numbers.
Build an Advanced Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Using VS Code
Anders Jensen shows you how to build one of the most advanced Microsoft 365 Copilot agents using VS Code and the Agents Toolkit.
Stop Losing Track of Your Agents—Do This Now #PowerPlatform #Admin
Girish Uppal shows you how to get Agent Inventory from Power Platform Admin Center
Wario Wario shares a video on Evaluating Copilot Studio Agents with G-Evals: Testing, Metrics, and Enterprise AI Quality
Azure Copilot Studio Agent Tutorial Using Official GitHub Repo
Dive into this step-by-step tutorial on building and deploying a Copilot agent using Microsoft Copilot Studio, based directly on the official Azure GitHub repository.
Unlock multimodal AI in Power Apps—learn how to use AI Builder GPT Prompts to analyze images and text together, all with low-code tools on the Power Platform! This tutorial by Damien Bird shows you, step by step, how to build a Rock, Paper, Scissors app that recognizes hand gestures and text using AI, making advanced workflow automation accessible for everyone.
The GitHub Copilot SDK IS INSANE! Put Copilot INSIDE Your Apps!
GitHub Copilot isn’t just in your editor anymore—this episode from James Montemagno dives into the new Copilot SDK (now in technical preview) and how it lets you embed the Copilot CLI’s agent power directly into your own apps.
Who’s Using Copilot Studio? | Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation GmbH’s Agent Journey
Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation GmbH is driving Mercedes‑Benz’s transformation into the AI world — building trusted solutions with AI technologies and Microsoft Copilot Studio as a key tool in that strategy.
Mars is expanding into Microsoft Copilot Studio, already building more than 1,000 agents and accelerating generative AI adoption across the business.
Lesson 3 of Zero to Hero – Rise of Agents by Victor Dantas and Chris Huntingford
In this session, Chris Huntingford 🚀 goes deep into what agents really are — beyond the buzzwords — and why the shift from automation to agentic AI is changing how we design solutions, teams, and organizations.
Hosted by Joe Unwin and Jack Rowbotham, they took us on an in-depth journey into the ‘Agent Readiness Framework’ - a new tool designed to help organizations evaluate and identify what’s needed to scale AI agents with clarity, confidence, and momentum.
M365 Con Copilot & copilot Studio Livestream
The Agentic Decade. How we redefine work, skills & leadership by Femke Cornelissen
Copilot Agents with MCP Servers: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly by Ragnar Heil
Building a Robust Copilot Studio Strategy by Wario Wario
Anatomy of an agent by Kevin McDonell
Copilot Studio Architecture Bootcamp by Power CAT
Agent Build-A-Thons
Dimpi Gandhi shares starting September 2025, Power CAT team will be hosting monthly virtual Agent Build-A-Thons. This is a hands-on, team-based experience designed to provide ongoing technical advisory support to teams learning & building agents with Copilot Studio!
Read more here https://lnkd.in/g4yxABhH
Gather your team, your proposed use-cases, pick a month and sign up today by visiting https://lnkd.in/gzY5RpRN
Microsoft Power CAT AI Webinars
Microsoft Power CAT AI Webinars are a series of interactive virtual sessions designed to help your organization adopt Microsoft Copilot Studio and agents.
Learn Live: Master the Skills to Create AI Agents | Microsoft Reactor
This series is designed to help you complete the official Microsoft Plan on Learn for mastering the latest agentic AI technologies.
Discover the Copilot Learning Hub – your one-stop source for all things Microsoft Copilot!
Microsoft Copilot Studio Resources
Resources to help you on your Copilot Studio journey, curated by Power CAT and updated regularly
The Custom Engine - the technical blog of the Microsoft Copilot Studio Customer Advisory Team (CAT). It is focussed on deep-dive guidance, examples, and patterns for Copilot Studio.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Official Documentation
In this learning path, you'll learn how to create custom agents in Copilot Studio and practice your skills with a guided project.
Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot in Copilot Studio - Training | Microsoft Learn
Build agents that extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with additional knowledge and capabilities. Use Copilot Studio to build declarative agents, add knowledge, add tools, and publish agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Build a foundation to build AI agents and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot - Training | Microsoft Learn
Prepare to build AI agents and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, and more.
Build Agents with Copilot Studio in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn
This MS Learn article walks through how to build agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio Lite(formerly Agent Builder)
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Pathway.
In this learning pathway Paul Griffith outlines the learning content for exploring Copilot for Microsoft 365.
This hands-on training is your entry point into the world of agents: from grounded prompts to Adaptive Cards and agent flows, you'll learn how to build, scale, and deploy intelligent agents using real-world tools and use cases.
Create agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio - Online Workshop - Training | Microsoft Learn
In this learning path you complete hands on activities using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Automate.
AI Agents for Beginners - A Course | ai-agents-for-beginners
This course has lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson in this course includes code examples.
Copilot Developer Camp is a self-paced learning resource, designed to help you build agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. It provides practical guidance and real-world examples to support your development journey.
Microsoft Copilot Studio ❤️ MCP | Power Platform Developer Blog
This lab gives you a hands-on understanding of MCP and how it works with Microsoft Copilot Studio
To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to create custom agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Microsoft Copilot Studio – Microsoft Adoption
Your one-stop hub for Copilot Studio adoption
AI Agents Hub – Microsoft Adoption
Your one-stop hub for getting started and scaling agents!
Here’s what you’ll find:
✅ Step-by-step setup and deployment guidance
✅ Role-based training for different users
✅ Best practices and support documentation
✅ Tools to help you build and scale agents
Whether you’re a business user, developer, or admin, this resource is designed to help you succeed from day one.
Adopt, extend and build Copilot experiences across the Microsoft Cloud | Microsoft Learn
The above article highlights the differences between the adopt, extend, and build options showcasing the breadth of possibilities that Copilot offers.
Adopting Extending and Building Your Own Copilots | BRK401 (youtube.com)
In this Ignite session, you will learn no-code, low-code and pro-code ways that you can use the Microsoft Copilot stack. You will also be exploring the Power Platform Copilots, Dynamics Copilots, Windows Copilot, M365 Copilots and more!
Create your AI strategy - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn
A successful AI strategy requires structured planning in four core areas. Identify AI use cases that deliver measurable business value, select Microsoft AI technologies that align to your team’s skills, establish scalable data governance, and implement responsible AI practices that preserve trust and meet regulatory requirements
Select the appropriate AI service model. Microsoft offers three service models with varying levels of customization and shared responsibility: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Use the Microsoft AI decision tree to guide your selection process.
Copilot Studio Governance guide designed by Power CAT team for Copilot Studio projects.
Governing Agents in a Low Code World ebook
This whitepaper delves into the role of Microsoft 365 agents, Agent Builder agents, and Copilot Studio agents, explaining how each type can be utilized to enhance operational efficiency while maintaining stringent security protocols.
Security and governance - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation provides best practices, implementation, and architecture guidance information from the PowerCAT team that works with our enterprise customers.
Key concepts: Learn about key architecture concepts that help you build robust, efficient, and maintainable solutions with Copilot Studio.
Solution ideas: Discover a range of solution ideas that demonstrate the versatility and power of Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio implementation guide (PDF)
The Copilot Studio implementation guide offers in-depth guidance, best practices, and reference architectures and patterns. It is designed to help customers, partners, and Microsoft teams plan, design, and review copilot projects and architectures for a successful implementation journey.
Copilot Studio Kit, published by the Microsoft Power CAT team, is a comprehensive set of capabilities designed to augment Microsoft Copilot Studio. The kit helps makers test custom agents, use a large language model to validate AI-generated content, and track aggregated key performance indicators.
This repository contains samples and artifacts for Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Galleries | Microsoft Power Platform Community
The Copilot Cookbook Gallery is a curated gallery that shows you how to use Copilot Studio.
MCS + Azure AI Workshop | Microsoft Copilot Studio Labs
Comprehensive hands-on workshop combining Microsoft Copilot Studio with Azure AI services for building intelligent, enterprise-grade AI solutions.
Ashish Patel shares the 500 AI Agents Projects which is a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries. It showcases practical applications and provides links to open-source projects for implementation, illustrating how AI agents are transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, education, retail, and more.
Official Microsoft Youtube channel for Copilot Studio
Dewain Robinson - The Copilot Studio Dude - YouTube
Samuel Boulanger | Mastering Productivity With AI - YouTube
Power Tech Speck (Girish Uppal) - YouTube
Join Shane Young, Power Platform MVP, as he sets the stage with demos, step-by-step builds, and deep dives into product-specific features that will have you building your own agents in no time. Microsoft worked with Shane to build out Copilot Studio content for Power Platform makers as part of a paid collaboration. #PaidCollaboration
AI in Action: Building with Copilot Studio - YouTube
Copilot Studio training series from Microsoft featuring April Dunnam, Scott Durow, Daniel Laskewitz, Eliaza Benitez and others.
Demystifying Copilot Studio - YouTube
What’s new with Copilot Studio Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi9EhCY4z99U_8aQBhgnmgVWauEzz-fPL
Understanding Microsoft Agents | EP02 - YouTube
Catch up with the full recap of "Understanding Microsoft Agents" community call.
Kickstart your path in Copilot Studio with this weekly Newsletter by Bulent Altinsoy.
The Copilot Studio | The Copilot Studio - Microsoft 365 Copilot
The Copilot Lab is a weekly newsletter by Daniel Anderson designed to help enable you to be more creative, innovative and ultimately more fulfilled at work by using Microsoft Copilot.
Copilot Studio Learning Hub Weekly newsletter by Kunal Patil
Dynamics 365 Talk – D365 "Taylored" to you! By Dian Taylor
CAT’s technical blog focused on deep-dive guidance, examples, and patterns for Copilot Studio.
Copilot Studio Community Forum
Official Microsoft Copilot Studio Forums
Copilot Studio community forum on Reddit.
The Agent Creators community recognizes a dynamic, global group of agent technology experts whose passion for sharing knowledge makes a significant impact within the community.
Copilot Studio Customer Stories Listing
AI & Microsoft Copilot Customer Stories Listing
Who’s Using Copilot Studio? | Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation GmbH’s Agent Journey
Mars is expanding into Microsoft Copilot Studio, already building more than 1,000 agents and accelerating generative AI adoption across the business.
City of Montréal supports citizens with a virtual agent built using Microsoft Copilot Studio
Having transformed interactions with students through the deployment of Microsoft Dynamics 365, the University of Leicester is now taking innovation a step further with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
The university has developed a digital coach and AI-powered agent which provides instant access to key university information. It reduces staff workload and ensures students get the support they need, whenever they need it.
Transform customer experience with AI agents!
See how the latest Customer Experience apps help Intralox grow its pipeline cost-effectively, enhancing quality, productivity, and relationships, and allow Apollo Travel to proactively address customer needs by automating tasks and offering insights.
Create your own autonomous agents with Copilot Studio
See how Eneco uses the new capabilities of Copilot Studio to create agents that automate large portions of their customer service operations, with no coding needed.
Copilot Studio licensing - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
This article covers Copilot Studio licensing details.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Licensing Guide(PDF)
Copilot Studio agent usage estimator (preview)
Estimator to forecast your agent's message volume
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