Copilot for Microsoft 365 Series - 7 - Copilot Agent Building Options

Introduction

As of now, there are a lot of options for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot and related services. If you are a heavy SharePoint user you can build agents which are grounded into your SharePoint knowledge with only a few clicks right within the SharePoint UI. If you are a low code maker, you can use either the Copilot Agent Builder or Microsoft Copilot Studio to build declarative agents which can then be surfaced through the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat UX or Microsoft Teams. And if you are a pro developer you can build either declarative agents using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio or you can build a custom engine agent using whatever tech stack you like. That may range from integration services such as the Teams AI Library to the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK to Azure AI Foundry or any other API you may want to consume.

As there are many options for building agents, I tried to visualize all of them into one single infographic:

Conclusion

As the infographic shows, you have a lot of options to choose from when it comes to building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Feel free to use it for internal use in your presentations or documents. The only point I ask you to do is to credit me and link this article to your documents where you use it. Please do not sell this as your own 😉