Updated: October 12, 2025 (October 12, 2025)

Understanding Copilot Studio

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Rob worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he designed technologies for Microsoft products and... more

Copilot Studio supports generative AI to reduce development effort and give agents advanced capabilities.

Agents can connect to data and services and respond in customized ways to govern results.

Copilot Studio is evolving rapidly, so organizations should evaluate the capabilities even if they have done so previously.

Copilot Studio is a component of the Power Platform set of services, which are a part of the Microsoft 365 (M365) ecosystem. These services, which also include Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and others, focus on simplifying line-of-business (LOB) processes that access and modify organizational data. Copilot Studio allows the creation of agents without requiring expensive developer resources.

Agents perform tasks within focused domains and knowledge sources, such as working with internal line-of-business apps and retrieving data from specific documents and databases.

This report, the second in a series on Copilot Studio, is for IT and development team managers and members who need an overview of the technical characteristics of Copilot Studio. The reports include the following:

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