Welcome to the 80th 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 Microsoft AI: Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Github Copilot and Microsoft Copilots delivered weekly to your inbox.
Microsoft announced the General Availability of Github Copilot harness in Copilot Studio.
The GitHub Copilot harness gives Copilot Studio the coding and reasoning capabilities behind agent experiences (like Copilot Cowork and the GitHub Copilot coding agent). It is designed for work that goes beyond simple conversations: complex tasks, long-running processes, large file processing, code execution, ambiguous decisions, and rich multi-part outputs.
Hemant Gaur and Adi Leibowitz share 𝐂𝐀𝐓 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 of community-driven Skills Gallery for AI Agents!
Agents powered by Github Copilot harness
Henry Jammes shares Agents powered by the GitHub Copilot harness – and the new workflows experience – are now generally available!
In practice, that means agents can now:
✅ Reason more deeply through complex problems
✅ Analyze and generate content from large files
✅ Use multiple tools, skills, connectors, MCP servers, and connected agents
✅ Execute Python code inside a sandboxed container
✅ Deliver significantly higher-quality results across multi-tool use, file analysis, and knowledge scenarios
Workflows are also now GA, with a visual designer for orchestrating multi-step business processes, adding agent nodes, and evaluating end-to-end workflow performance.
New Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert Certification | Microsoft Community Hub
New Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert Certification AI-500 is available in Beta.
Available today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Community Hub
Microsoft is bringing OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 to Microsoft 365 Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Copilot Cowork. For leaders thinking about AI adoption, this is a strong example of how frontier models can help teams move from rough ideas to more complete work, while keeping enterprise security, compliance, and privacy at the center.
Learn more: https://msft.it/6049vfo8T
Real-time agent defense with Microsoft Defender
Real-time agent defense. Microsoft Defender blocks malicious tool calls mid-execution and flags persistent jailbreak attempts on Copilot Studio agents the moment they happen. Watch it in action at https://lnkd.in/gAmKhX4D Surface every AI agent in your tenant and expose the ones throwing security signals — across both the IT and SOC view
Graph-driven agent orchestration with the new 𝐆𝐢𝐭𝐇𝐮𝐛 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
In “graph-driven agent orchestration”, instead of writing agent loops, the agent orchestrates itself using a dynamically generated Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG).
In this article, Andreas Adner shares how he used a skill that contains a Python runtime that allows the agent to create its own DAG. We give it a task - to select the best food-truck vendor - and it generates its own orchestration graph and goes to work. It even rewrites its graph halfway through.
Creating Skills for Copilot Studio Agents: How to use the SKILL.md and Behavior-as-Code
This article from Holger Imbery shows how to build Skills in the new Copilot Studio agent experience.
Andreas Adner shares about how Work IQ API and MCP servers are evolving - instead of offering a separate tool for every Microsoft 365 entity or action, Work IQ MCP exposes a small set of generic tools that operate on resource paths.
He shows how this can be used for generative UI by creating an MCP server that uses Work IQ MCP internally, to generate user interfaces in Copilot Cowork on the fly - UIs automatically wired up to operations in Microsoft 365. Pretty useful!
Henry Jammes shares his first skill published to the CAT Skills library.
Rafsan shares that he hid a malicious instruction inside a normal-looking document and then handed it to my Copilot Studio agent. To a human, the file looks like a plain refund policy. But hidden in white text was an instruction telling the agent to send customer data to an outside email address.
Then I asked the agent a simple question: What is your refund policy? The agent read the file, found the hidden instruction, and refused to follow it. It did not follow the instructions and did not send data anywhere
Running Evaluations in Copilot Studio
Michael Morrison shares that he discovered something new to him: Running Evaluations in copilot Studio has a hard limit when response is over 10,000 characters.
Do you know how many AI agents are already operating inside your organisation today?
Graham Hosking shares Agent 365 has some VERY cool features to monitor the above! The new AI Agent Discovery capability in Global Secure Access provides network-level visibility of agentic software running on managed endpoints. Microsoft describes it as discovering both:
- Managed agents
- Shadow (unmanaged) agents
MCP with Entra auth + Copilot & Cowork | The Nullpointer Blog
In this article, Andreas Adner walks through how to use Entra ID to control access to MCP servers.
Karn Singh shares a report with 100+ Enterprise AI use cases.
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐝-𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭.
Elliiot Margo shares that Copilot agent and office add-in will share the same manifest format. Most app review processes today ask “is this add-in safe to sideload.” Almost none ask “could this package also register as an agent, and who signed off on that.
This walkthrough tutorial from Damine Bird helps you understand the changes and what your options are with regards to building your next agent in Copilot Studio.
In this video, Girish Uppal shows you a technique through which you can query internal mechanism of an agent.
In this video, Daniel is going to walk you through an end-to-end solution on how we can use Copilot Studio workflows to take a take a request, have it reviewed by humans and then based on the request send it to either agents or to other humans.
In this session, participants will learn how to leverage Microsoft Copilot Studio and Code Interpreter to automate financial audit processes and gain actionable insights from financial data. The session focuses on transforming traditional manual audit activities into intelligent, AI-driven workflows that improve accuracy, efficiency, and decision-making.
Microsoft just released the new FlowAgent MCP server — a free, open-source Power Automate plugin that lets AI assistants like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI build, edit, run, and debug your cloud flows for you. In this tutorial video, Reza puts the flow MCP to the test!
In this video, Andrew Hess shows off a custom Copilot Studio Skill scrollytelling-data... that takes any dataset (Excel, CSV, JSON, Dataverse, even PDF tables) and turns it into a self-contained, scroll-driven HTML story.
Want to Use Copilot Cowork in Dynamics 365? Here is how....
In this video, Mohammed Khaliefa shows by connecting Microsoft Copilot Cowork connected to Dynamics 365, you can automate repetitive tasks like creating opportunity summaries, generating PDFs, sending emails, and scheduling meetings—all from a simple prompt.
Copilot, Microsoft 365 & Power Platform weekly call – 21st of July, 2026
Copilot, Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call on July 21st 2026 included three demos: • Waseel Akbari - AI-Powered Policy Intelligence Center • Richard Plantt, Mallika Limbu, Kanwal Khipple - Extending SharePoint Navigation with WayPoint (SPFx) • Paolo Pialorsi - Building SharePoint Copilot Apps - Retail Tracking Scenario
MCP explained in plain English, plus real examples in Copilot Studio
Laura Rogers breaks down Model Context Protocol in plain English: what it is, why it exists, and how it works
Live AMA: Understanding Copilot Cowork and managing Copilot Credits
This live webinar and AMA covers: • Who should be using Copilot Cowork • How to allocate and manage Copilot Credits effectively • Best practices for adoption and governance • Strategies for scaling and managing Copilot Cowork across your organization
Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent’s Playbook
Join The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent’s Playbook, a four-part livestream series for developers focused on building, grounding, extending, and evaluating declarative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
📅 Tuesdays, Aug 18–Sept 8
🕘 9 AM PT / 4 PM UTC
This will cover:
🧩 Skills and actions for extending agents
💬 WorkIQ for grounding agents in work context
🖥️ MCP Apps in Copilot for interactive UI experiences
📊 Microsoft 365 Copilot Evals for testing and improving agent quality
Each session includes practical demos, product team insights, and live Q&A.
Register: https://msft.it/6049vfF8b
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.
Copilot Studio Resources | The Custom Engine
Your guide to Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation, training, tools, and best practices from Microsoft CAT team.
Browse skills and plugins contributed by the community for Copilot Studio, Cowork or Scout: drop-in instructions and script bundles that teach your agents new tricks.
The Agent Build-Along Series gives partners a self-serve repo of ready-to-run sessions across M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry, curated by industry and business function.
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.
Copilot Cowork at Agent Academy
Copilot Cowork is a brand new experience built on technology from Anthropic that lets you describe a task, walk away, and come back to a finished result.
🎓 Want hands-on labs? Check out the Cowork Collective at Agent Academy: 👉 https://aka.ms/agent-academy
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
Guidance hubs to help you plan, build, and operate agents | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Manuela Pichler shares the launch of Guidance hubs, new agent architecture guidance hub and a refreshed Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance hub. These on-demand resources offer end‑to‑end documentation across the agent lifecycle—from design and planning through operations, governance, and advanced architectural patterns.
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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