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- Copilot Studio — product information
- What's new in Copilot Studio — official Learn release notes and monthly feature summaries
Learn
- Sign up for a trial
- Create your first agent
- Try the demo
- Browse product documentation — Copilot Studio
- Agents hub — Microsoft's central resource for agentic computing: ecosystem overview, concepts, and guidance
- Copilot Studio for Power Platform Makers — video series
- Copilot Studio in action — demo
- Copilot Foundations learning path (AI-3018)
- Training & workshops — Training modules on Learn | Agent in a Day
- YouTube channels — Microsoft Copilot Studio | Copilot Studio tutorials | Copilot Studio Dude (Dewain Robinson) | DamoBird365 | Power CAT Live
- Latest news — blog
- Latest features — What's new in Copilot Studio | release plans | roadmap
- 2026 release wave 1 — overview | planned features
- Meet the new Copilot Studio: rebuilt for more complex, multi-step work — redesigned authoring experience with rebuilt orchestrator, unified canvas, markdown skills, and streamlined 4-tab interface now GA worldwide (Jun 9, 2026)
- Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do — private preview for tuning agents against organization-specific workflows, data, and compliance boundaries (Jun 2, 2026)
- Meet the new Copilot Studio, rebuilt for more complex multi-step work — streamlined authoring experience and modern AI core for more reliable agent and workflow outcomes (Jun 9, 2026)
- Mistral joins Copilot Studio's growing lineup of model providers — Mistral Medium 3.5 now available in early release environments for in-region EU processing (May 28, 2026)
- New and improved: Computer-using agents, workflows, and real-time voice — CUA GA, redesigned workflows, A2A GA, real-time voice GA, 20% eval improvement (May 2026 monthly)
- The in-depth guide to managing real-time voice agents at scale — 5-stage governance framework for customer-facing real-time voice agents (May 19, 2026)
- New and improved: Agent governance, intelligent workflows, and connected app experiences — Agent 365 GA, apps in agents, GPT-5.5 Thinking, custom metrics (April 2026 monthly)
- Extend AI voice support: Introducing real-time voice agents — GA of real-time voice agents through Dynamics 365 Contact Center (Apr 27, 2026)
- Automate business processes with agents plus workflows — agents in workflows via agent nodes, and workflows as tools for agents (Apr 10, 2026)
- Custom graders in Copilot Studio: Setting high standards for agent evals — 4-layer grader stack for custom domain and behavioral evaluations (Mar 26, 2026)
- Addressing the OWASP Top 10 Risks in Agentic AI with Microsoft Copilot Studio — maps Copilot Studio governance against OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (Mar 30, 2026)
- New and improved: Multi-agent orchestration, connected experiences, and faster prompt iteration — multi-agent systems GA across Microsoft Fabric, M365 Agents SDK, and open Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols
- Microsoft Build 2026 news hub — all announcements from Build 2026 including Copilot Studio CUA GA, real-time voice GA, A2A GA, and Work IQ extensibility (Jun 2, 2026)
- Use cases for the Agent Feed — practical scenarios for monitoring agent reasoning, actions, and follow-up messages in Copilot Studio (May 28, 2026)
- Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, or Microsoft Foundry: How We Decide for Every Client — Partner News decision framework for picking the right authoring surface based on builder skill, governance, and complexity (May 19, 2026)
- Computer-using agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio are now generally available — agents that operate web and desktop apps through the UI are now GA (May 13, 2026)
- 4 ways to build a curated Agent Store and scale agent adoption — guidance for breaking the agent adoption gap with discovery, trust, and governance (May 12, 2026)
- New updates: Administering and Governing Agents whitepaper v3.2 — updated guidance for zoned governance, Agent 365 observability, and Agent Store entry points (May 11, 2026)
- Read-only analytics access and custom metrics now available in Microsoft Copilot Studio — role-scoped analytics and custom metrics for agent operations (May 5, 2026)
- Work IQ API public preview: Build Copilot-powered agents with A2A — secure, grounded agent-to-agent collaboration using Copilot's intelligence layer (Apr 30, 2026)
- Automate agent evaluation with the Evaluation APIs — schedule and run repeatable agent evaluations at scale (Apr 29, 2026)
- Copilot Studio Implementation Guide — announcement | download (PPT)
- Microsoft Copilot scenario library
- Copilot Studio adoption resources
- AI agent templates and examples
- Agent transformation stories
- Agent Store — introduction
- Agentic AI adoption maturity model — structured framework to assess where you are in your agent journey and scale responsibly
- Scalable training for individuals and enterprise organizations — Power Up
- CAT AI Webinars
- Work through self-paced Copilot Studio Labs
- Hands-on training with Copilot Studio Agent Academy
- Architecture workshop — Copilot Studio Architecture Bootcamp
- Training modules on Learn
- Workshops — Kickstarter | Agent in a Day | online workshop | hands-on workshop
- Udemy — Copilot Studio courses
- Copilot Developer Camp
- Certification — Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals | Applied Skills: Create agents in Copilot Studio
- Copilot Studio Agent Build-A-Thon
- Computer use documentation
- Real-time voice agents
- Agent node in workflow
- Custom metrics
- Patterns & practices — Copilot Studio guidance center
- Architecture guidance — Copilot Studio Architecture Center
- Copilot Studio Kit
- Copilot Studio Implementation Guide download (PPT)
- Prompt node in workflows — make a single AI call with dynamic inputs, model selection, and structured output
- Microsoft 365 Copilot node in workflows — ground workflow steps in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Researcher, or Analyst
- Agent inventory schema — understand the fields surfaced for tenant-wide agent discovery and audit
- Agent readiness and issue status — consolidated status page for publishing, runtime, and configuration issues
- Agents SDK — blog post | documentation | GitHub repository
- Activate generative AI features
- Responsible AI — documentation
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) — labs & samples | MCP Server lab
- Copilot Studio Labs
- The Custom Engine blog
- Connectors — documentation
- VS Code extension — documentation | marketplace
- Power Platform CLI — documentation
- Agent evaluation — how to evaluate AI agents | setup guide
- Agent Evaluation in Microsoft Copilot Studio is now generally available — GA of agent evaluation with versioned results, identity-based testing, and API access (Mar 31, 2026)
Autonomous agents & advanced capabilities
- Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Copilot Studio — event-triggered, self-acting agents with no-code setup
- Introducing agent flows: Transforming automation with AI-first workflows — deterministic, AI-augmented workflow sequences reusable across agents
- Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work — AI agents take center stage: Microsoft Scout, Work IQ GA, Copilot Studio CUA GA, and Hosted Agents GA (Jun 2, 2026)
- Automate web and desktop apps with computer use (CUA) — generally available UI automation for browser and desktop experiences
- Build autonomous agents in Copilot Studio — Microsoft Mechanics video on MCPs, models, and multi-agent patterns
- Agent Governance Whitepaper — comprehensive guidance on agent lifecycle, compliance, data security, and responsible AI
Build 2026 sessions
- BRK431 Advanced Agent Development with Copilot Studio
- BRK240 Build context-aware agents: From data to decisions
- BRK242 Turn your agents into action: Connect tools, APIs, and documents
- DEM332 From zero to teammate in 25 minutes: Build a Teams agent live
- LTG423 Building end-to-end agentic automation in 15 minutes
- LTG450 From Idea to Agent in Minutes: Copilot Studio + Claude Code
- Guidance and best practices — Power Platform guidance | Copilot Studio guidance
- Copilot Studio maturity model
- Copilot Studio architecture guidance
- Generative orchestration
- Prompting — prompting guide
- Governance — security and governance
- Well-architected workloads — Intelligent applications
- Experience and design — Design conversational experiences | design strategies | human-AI interaction guidelines
- Architecting agent solutions — enterprise-grade principles and patterns: fit-for-purpose, operability, and trust
- Design guidelines for agents — UX design framework for declarative and custom engine agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Agent archetype framework — shared vocabulary using the 3Cs model: categories, capabilities, and components
- Design and operationalize agent evaluation — systematic approach to defining quality metrics and iterative improvement
Plan and design
- Before you build your agent — planning considerations, scope definition, and readiness checklist before development begins
- Agent Design Canvas — structured framework for defining agent intent, scope, persona, and behaviors before building
Build
- Topic authoring best practices — patterns and anti-patterns for high-quality topic structure, branching, and reuse
- Enhance with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) — ground agent responses in your knowledge sources with generative answers
- Work with agent tools — add connector and custom tools to extend agent capabilities
Measure and improve
- Measure and improve agent performance — built-in analytics, conversation KPIs, satisfaction scores, and optimization workflows
- Measure the return on investment (ROI) and business value of AI agents — June 2026 guidance for defining success metrics, value hypotheses, and executive-ready impact reporting
Tools and extensions
- Copilot Studio Kit — open-source accelerators for testing, compliance automation, and governance at scale
- Agent Library — catalog of pre-built agents ready to customize and deploy in your environment
Reference architectures
- Copilot Studio reference architectures — documented patterns for enterprise-grade implementations including RAG, escalation, and multi-agent scenarios
Documentation
- Security and governance overview — top-level reference for all admin controls, DLP, data residency, and compliance certifications
- Governance and admin models — architecture guidance | security and governance series
- Configure DLP policies for agents — enforcement modes, connector governance, and troubleshooting
- Implement a zoned governance strategy — risk segmentation across citizen, partnered, and professional dev zones
- Control how agents are shared — restrict sharing permissions and editor/viewer assignment from the admin center
- View agent inventory (tenant-wide) — discover all Copilot Studio agents across your tenant with auth mode, publish status, and usage metadata
- Agent inventory schema reference — field-by-field reference for inventory data surfaced through admin tools and APIs
- Agent readiness and issue status — review publishing blockers, runtime issues, and severity from one status page
- Audit logs — enable and query Microsoft Purview audit logs for admin, maker, and user activities
- Monitor operations, compliance, and capacity — reporting and alerting using PPAC, Purview, and Azure Sentinel
- Licensing and capacity — licensing reference | manage credits
- Plan agent deployments for throughput and rate limits — June 2026 operational guidance for message capacity, concurrency planning, and safe scale-out
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy — dev/test/prod environments, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Power Platform Pipelines
- Security and governance maturity model — assess and advance your governance posture from initial to optimized
- Copilot Studio Kit Compliance Hub — automated policy enforcement and compliance dashboards for admins
- Copilot Hub in Power Platform Admin Center — centralized view for tracking usage, managing policies, and scaling adoption
- Global Secure Access for Copilot Studio agents — route agent traffic through Microsoft's network security enforcement layer (preview)
Official blog posts
- Agent Governance Whitepaper — comprehensive guidance on agent lifecycle, compliance, data security, and responsible AI
- Addressing the OWASP Top 10 Risks in Agentic AI with Microsoft Copilot Studio — comprehensive mapping of Copilot Studio controls to OWASP Agentic AI risk categories (Mar 30, 2026)
- Confidently adopt and administer Copilot Studio with managed security and governance — Security Hub, governance frameworks, and managed solutions at scale
- Enable robust security and governance for agents — Purview audit, Sentinel integration, tenant inventory, and customer-managed encryption keys
Build 2026 sessions
- BRK250 Govern open-source AI agents, any framework, any scale
- BRK247 Scott and Mark learn…how agents reshape software engineering
- DEM361 Understand and fix Agent Framework apps with observability and evals
Community and MVP resources
- From chaos to control: Governance best practices for Copilot Studio (Ragnar Heil, MVP) — DLP design, capacity allocation, authentication restrictions, and channel access controls
- Mastering Copilot Studio: DLP and governance tips (Ragnar Heil, MVP) — connector classification, enforcement modes, and testing DLP rules before broad rollout
- Copilot Studio governance — check at least these (Mikko Koskinen, MVP) — practical minimum-viable governance checklist with real-world notes on maker friction and DLP enforcement
- Copilot Studio governance: The complete admin reference — governance frameworks, generative AI controls, sharing policies, and environment strategy
- Curated customer stories
- AI case studies
- Generative AI and Copilot Studio
- AI customer stories
- Technical case studies — AI Inteligencia em Viagens | Cineplex
- Samples — CopilotStudioSamples
- Dataverse Indexer
- 3rd Party SSO
- Custom analytics
- Load Testing
- Multilingual bot
- SharePoint SSO
- Test framework
- YAML snippets
- Relay bot
- Copilot connectors samples (PnP community)
- Power Platform MCP samples
- Skills for Copilot Studio (YAML-based agent development)
- Copilot Studio community forum
- Copilot Studio Tech Community Blog — new launch for builders and admins covering templates, governance, extensibility, and production operations (aka.ms/MCSblog)
- Copilot Studio community blog
- r/copilotstudio (Reddit)
- Submit an idea / feature request
- Autonomous Agent Capabilities with Copilot Studio — Power Platform community walkthrough
- Copilot Studio Agent Academy — self-paced training with guided exercises and rank progression