Microsoft makes Planner Agent available to all Copilot users
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Planner Agent reached general availability on 15 June 2026 for anyone with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence. The agent can create tasks, assign owners, and update status directly inside Teams, Loop, and SharePoint. It works from the same Copilot chat window users already open in those apps. No separate licence is required beyond the existing Copilot subscription. Administrators must still enable the feature where company policy restricts new agents.
Before this release, Copilot could draft text and summarise meetings but had no reliable way to turn those outputs into tracked work. Task lists stayed in separate Planner boards or scattered Teams messages, and most users kept maintaining them by hand. Now the same chat can both produce a plan and push the items into a living list. The gap between 'Copilot gave me ideas' and 'someone actually owns these items next week' narrows, but only if the underlying data permissions and review habits are already in place.
Analysis
Run a two-week test on one active project where task drift is already visible. Set a single rule: every Copilot-generated task must be reviewed by its assigned owner within 24 hours before the agent is allowed to create the next batch.
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