Microsoft lets Copilot agents pull answers directly from SharePoint sites
Microsoft updated Copilot Studio so agents can now treat SharePoint sites or lists as knowledge sources. The agents generate responses from that content and can surface it inside Teams chats. Configuration happens at the topic or agent level and falls back to the SharePoint data when needed.
Until now SharePoint remained a static repository that most employees ignored or treated like a broken file server. Admins spent their days cleaning up sprawl and permissions while leadership complained the intranet never delivered answers. The new capability changes that equation. Agents will now read whatever sits in those sites and present it as authoritative, which means messy navigation, outdated files and loose external sharing will be turned into confident-sounding replies that users actually see.
Analysis
Treat this as a risk until your SharePoint house is in order. Audit every site you might connect, remove external access first, and only then test a single clean communication site as the knowledge source.
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