Copilot Studio

by
Rob Sanfilippo

by
Rob Sanfilippo

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

Copilot Studio is a service that allows makers to create, edit, and run agents, which are natural language assistants that either return scripted information, call other services to retrieve information for an answer, or use generative AI to produce answers. Agents can be accessed through Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, and other channels.

Product: Copilot Studio

Licensing: Copilot Studio

Near-Term Roadmap (2026)

Copilot Studio receives frequent updates that are announced and arrive in semiannual “waves.” Improvements that arrived in early 2026 enable a better security posture, improve governance, support automated testing, and provide analytic insights for Copilot Studio agents.

Real-time security monitoring. Agent actions can be moderated using real-time monitoring tools such as Defender for Cloud Apps (in preview) and third-party and custom solutions. These tools can monitor agent actions and block them if necessary.

Entra Agent ID. Every agent runs under the context of an Entra Agent ID account (in preview) rather than a user account, which is more appropriate for a human user. Entra Agent ID accounts enable deployed agents to be inventoried. They also give each agent a mailbox so users can send them e-mail and share files with them instead of using chat UIs.