Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio Resources

Resources to help you drive agent-based transformation with Copilot Studio. Curated by the Microsoft Copilot Acceleration Team (CAT).

🚀 Get started

What is Copilot Studio? — Introduction to the low-code tool for designing and deploying AI agents without code
Open Copilot Studio — Start creating agents in the Copilot Studio portal right now
Quickstart — Create your first agent — Step-by-step guide to creating and deploying a basic agent in 30 minutes
Start a free trial — Sign up for a Copilot Studio free trial and start using it immediately
Copilot Studio demo — Interactive demo showing key features and use cases
Copilot Studio official documentation — Complete technical documentation for building, deploying, and managing agents
Copilot Studio YouTube channel — Collection of official tutorials, demos, and how-to videos
Power CAT Live — Copilot Studio — Playlist of live sessions hosted by the Power CAT team
The Copilot Studio Dude — Community channel covering practical tips and advanced techniques

📰 News and updates

New agent experience GA (June 2026) — Announcement of the general availability of the new Copilot Studio agent experience
Computer Use Agent (CUA) GA — General availability of Computer Use Agent for automating legacy apps
A2A (agent-to-agent communication) GA — General availability of the Agent-to-Agent protocol enabling multi-agent orchestration
Mistral models and Frontier Tuning — Announcement of Mistral AI model integration and fine-tuning capabilities
May 2026 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in May
April 2026 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in April
March 2026 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in March
February 2026 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in February
January 2026 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in January
December 2025 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in December
November 2025 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in November
October 2025 update roundup — Monthly summary of key features and improvements in October
Full what's new page — Full Copilot Studio release notes and list of new features

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📋 Adoption

Copilot Studio implementation guide — Step-by-step implementation framework for adopting Copilot Studio in your organization
Scenario Library — Collection of agent use cases and scenarios by industry and department
Agent maturity model — Framework for assessing your organization's Copilot Studio adoption stage and moving to the next level
Agent store (AppSource) — Explore and install prebuilt agents from Microsoft AppSource

🎓 Training and learning

Power Up Program — Microsoft's free Power Platform training program, including Copilot Studio
AI webinar series — Webinar series related to Microsoft AI and Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio hands-on labs — Copilot Studio labs learned in a hands-on lab environment
Agent Academy — Structured learning path for developing agent-building experts
Copilot Studio Bootcamp — Intensive training-style Copilot Studio bootcamp course
Microsoft Learn — Copilot Studio learning path — Official self-paced Copilot Studio learning path on Microsoft Learn
Workshop materials — Instructor-led or self-paced Copilot Studio workshop materials
Build-A-Thon — Hackathon-style learning event where you learn by building agents
PL-200 certification — Power Platform Functional Consultant — Official Power Platform certification that includes Copilot Studio

🔧 Build agents

Copilot Studio Guidance Center — Official guidance hub for agent design, building, and deployment
Architecture Center — Copilot Studio solution architecture patterns and reference documentation
Copilot Studio Kit — Official toolset that accelerates agent building, provided by Power CAT
MCP integration labs — Hands-on labs for integrating Model Context Protocol with Copilot Studio
VS Code extension — Develop and test Copilot Studio agents in Visual Studio Code
Agent evaluation tools — Evaluation framework for measuring agent performance and response quality

Autonomous Agents

Build autonomous agents with triggers — Create agents that act autonomously using event-based triggers
Generative Actions — Generative orchestration where AI dynamically selects and runs actions
Computer Use Agent (CUA) — Agent that automates legacy desktop apps through mouse and keyboard interactions

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⭐ Best practices

Agent maturity model — Framework for advancing the maturity stage of your agent program by assessing organizational capabilities
Solution architecture guide — Architecture principles for designing enterprise-grade Copilot Studio solutions
Generative orchestration guide — Advanced patterns where AI dynamically orchestrates topics and actions

New Agent Experience

Skills — How to add reusable skill modules to agents
Memory — Memory capability that lets agents remember and personalize user context
Microsoft IQ — How to use Microsoft IQ capabilities connected to Microsoft 365 data
Foundry IQ — Foundry IQ integration using Azure AI Foundry models and data

Agent lifecycle

Plan — agent design — Planning methodology that connects business requirements to agent design
Build — agent development — Best practices and patterns for efficiently developing agents
Measure — performance measurement — How to set KPIs, analyze usage, and measure agent ROI
Agent library — Library of ready-to-use prebuilt agent patterns

Reference architectures

Reference architecture collection — Copilot Studio reference architectures based on real implementation patterns

🔒 Governance and security

Official documentation

DLP (data loss prevention) policies — Admin guide for applying DLP policies to Copilot Studio agents
Zoned Governance — How to control agent access by setting governance zones by environment
Agent sharing and access control — Agent sharing policies and role-based access control (RBAC) settings
Agent inventory and auditing — Inventory management and activity auditing for all agents in the organization
ALM (application lifecycle management) — Configure agent deployment pipelines across Dev→Test→Prod environments
Compliance and certifications — Copilot Studio compliance status including ISO, SOC 2, and GDPR
Copilot Studio Kit — governance tools — Power CAT Copilot Studio Kit for governance automation

Blogs and security guides

OWASP Top 10 — Copilot Studio perspective — Guide to addressing OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities for agent security
Copilot Studio security whitepaper — In-depth Copilot Studio security whitepaper for enterprise environments
Security hub — Central hub for Copilot Studio security resources

Build 2026 governance sessions

Community & MVP guides

Ragnar Heil — Governance insights — Practical advice from an enterprise Copilot Studio governance expert
Mikko Koskinen — Security guide — Community guide to Copilot Studio security settings and best practices

🏆 Customer success stories

Copilot Studio customer stories — Real-world stories of customers around the world transforming business with Copilot Studio
AI customer stories gallery — Collection of customer success stories across Microsoft AI solutions
Technical case studies — Copilot Studio technical case study materials with implementation details

💾 Samples and repositories

CopilotStudioSamples — Official Microsoft Copilot Studio sample code repository
DataverseIndexer — Sample for indexing Dataverse data into a Copilot Studio knowledge base
CustomAnalytics — Custom dashboard for analyzing conversation data from Copilot Studio agents
LoadTesting — Automation scripts for agent performance load testing
Multilanguage agent framework — Framework for building Copilot Studio agents that support multiple languages
SharePoint SSO sample — Sample for integrating a Copilot Studio agent into SharePoint with SSO
Test framework — Framework for automated testing of agent responses
YAML-based agent definitions — Pattern sample for defining agents as code with YAML files
Relay bot sample — Sample for integrating Azure Bot Service and Copilot Studio through a relay pattern
PnP custom connector samples — Collection of custom connector samples provided by the Power Platform community (PnP)
Power Platform MCP samples — Samples for integrating Model Context Protocol with Power Platform
Skills library for Copilot Studio — Collection of reusable skills that can be added directly to Copilot Studio
Third-party SSO sample — Sample for integrating an external identity provider with Copilot Studio using SSO

🤝 Community

Power Users — Copilot Studio forum — Official community forum for sharing questions, answers, and ideas
Tech Community blog — Copilot Studio technical blog written by Microsoft teams and MVPs
Reddit — r/CopilotStudio — Reddit subreddit for community-led discussions and tips
Ideas and feature requests — Suggest new Copilot Studio features or vote on existing requests
Agent Academy community — Learning community where agent-building experts gather