Microsoft brings agent building into Copilot Chat
Microsoft has integrated Copilot Studio directly into the M365 Copilot Chat interface and the Copilot app in Teams. Users can now start creating custom agents from within the same window they already use for daily tasks. IT administrators receive updates to the Package Management API that help manage these agents and related apps. The API update is available only in preview.
Before this change, building a custom agent meant leaving the main Copilot experience for a separate studio tool, which most users avoided because it added friction on top of already inconsistent results and data safety worries. The direct access now places agent creation inside the familiar chat, which could turn basic prompt trials into repeatable automations for reports or meeting notes, but it also makes it easier for agents to surface documents that should stay restricted unless the company has tightened its data controls.
Analysis
This will not fix low adoption on its own if your team still lacks basic governance. Open Copilot in Teams right now, create one test agent that only draws from approved non-sensitive sources for meeting recaps, and compare its output quality and time saved against your current manual process for the next week.
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