Microsoft Copilot Studio to build AI agents

Microsoft revealed at its Build 2024 developer conference today that it was working to enable new agent building capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio, the company’s low-code tool for creating copilots.

“Developers provide their copilot with a defined task, equip it with the necessary knowledge and actions, post which the Copilot Studio orchestrates dynamic workflows and acts behind the scenes to integrate them to automate the task,” Charles Lamanna, Microsoft corporate vice president of business applications and platforms, said in a statement.

Agent capabilities in Copilot Studio will be available via an early access program, with public preview scheduled for later this calendar year, Lamanna said.

In addition, Microsoft said that it would be adding copilot connectors to Copilot Studio in order to simplify how developers connect their business and collaboration data to their copilots.

Copilot connectors include more than 1,400 Microsoft Power Platform connectors, Microsoft Graph connectors, and Power Query connectors. Lamanna said that integration with Microsoft Fabric would be added soon.

These connectors make it possible for developers to use trusted sources of data, in turn allowing the copilots to use data sources such as public websites, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Dataverse tables, Microsoft Fabric OneLake, and Microsoft Graph, as well as third-party data sources.