People closest to the problem often know exactly what would fix it: a tracker that stays current, a dashboard that speeds decisions, or a small tool that eliminates a recurring workaround. Copilot Code helps them turn those ideas into working solutions.
For decades, the unit of knowledge work has been the file: a document, spreadsheet, or presentation. AI models can generate code, but code alone is not a usable solution. People still need to set up environments, host applications, share them with others, and manage them over time.
Copilot Code is a new AI-powered coding experience in Microsoft Copilot that helps people turn ideas into working software. It starts with the work people already do, helps them build solutions through natural language, and connects to professional development workflows as projects grow.
Start from your work, build locally or in the cloud
Consider a business leader trying to close a revenue gap across several global markets. Underlying data lives across Power BI tables, documents, meetings, and conversations. In the past, bringing it all together would have been laborious and hard to maintain.
What they really need is an interactive application that helps them model investment decisions and understand business impact. A reliable simulation with live data and real-time calculations based on their inputs. With Copilot Code, this is something they can do on their own, without a development budget or engineering experts.
Start with the outcome. Describe the goal in natural language. Copilot then asks clarifying questions and, powered by Work IQ, draws from emails, meetings, documents, chats, and data from connected sources to build out requirements , even if they are not all in the initial prompt.
- Build from work context. Copilot asks clarifying questions, then builds a live control center that brings together data, assumptions, and business context into a working application.
- Refine through conversation. As priorities change, update the application through conversation or direct edits. Add new visualizations, business logic, and data sources without starting over.
- Stay in preview or open the code. Work entirely from the live preview without ever seeing code, or open it to edit directly, work with local files and tools, or use the terminal to customize the solution further.
- Run locally or in the cloud. Keep the project on a local device for personal productivity and refresh it as needed or publish it to a Microsoft-managed cloud environment so it can be shared with others.
The result isn’t a static file that has to be rebuilt every time the inputs change. It’s a working application, and one that can be shared.
Grow with your project
A project may begin as a solution for one person, grow to support a small team, and eventually become a broader effort. At that stage, it may require release processes, quality reviews, security controls, and collaboration across engineering and business teams.
As it grows, projects often need additional data sources, integrations with business systems, custom logic, and ongoing maintenance. These requirements increase the need for structured collaboration, change review, and release management. Copilot Code provides a path into the workflows engineering teams already use for that work.
Connect the project to a new or existing GitHub repository and open a draft pull request. This gives engineering teams a practical starting point for review and further development.
Copilot Code and GitHub Copilot share the same underlying agentic technology but support different ways of working. Copilot Code starts with the context of your work and helps you create software through natural language. When projects require broader engineering collaboration, you can bring them into shared repositories and workflows, where contributors keep working in the tools where they're most productive.
Share what you build, with IT in control
What you build in Copilot Code often starts as a personal tool: a calculator to size the value of a deal, a widget that surfaces the numbers you check every morning or an app that turns a monthly process into a few clicks. When it’s ready for a wider audience, Copilot makes it simple to share across your organization.
When an app is meant to be shared, Copilot builds it on Copilot Managed Runtime, so publishing requires no separate deployment work. Anyone in the organization with permission to the underlying data can use the app. The application inherits the governance, security, and management controls your organization has already configured. Teams get the benefit of custom-built solutions without adding a separate system for administrators to manage.
Get started
AI is changing how software gets built. Copilot Code starts with the work people already do and helps turn their ideas into working solutions. The people who understand the work can build what it needs, and organizations stay in control of what gets built. Copilot Code is beginning to rollout today through the Frontier program . We look forward learning from customers as they explore what is possible when software creation starts with the people who know the work they know best.
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