The workplace is evolving from prompt-based assistants to an agent-centric model, where specialized digital teammates pursue goals autonomously. Microsoft’s ecosystem—from SharePoint to Azure AI Foundry—empowers everyone to build agents that seamlessly extend Microsoft 365 Copilot. What began with the Bot Framework’s Skills is now multi-agent collaboration across platforms. The future isn’t Copilot in apps but Copilot across work—agents like a Project Planner that follow you everywhere. As we shift from Copilot adoption to agent lifecycle management, one question remains: What’s your vision for the agentic workplace?

Examining how Microsoft Copilot Studio’s preview release of autonomous agent capabilities lays a basic yet promising foundation—highlighting its core architecture, current functionalities, and future potential for automating enterprise workflows.

Enabling deep reasoning on a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent and use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot

A powerful VS Code extension designed to help developers create, analyze, and refine instructions for declarative AI agents.

A comparison infographic on the various options you have when building Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents, from no-code to low-code to pro-code.

Everything you need to know about the different ways of extending Copilot for Microsoft 365 including agents, plugins and connectors which have been announced/updated after the Copilot Wave 2 event.