Is there any feature in Copilot Cowork that can provide an estimate of the credits that will be consumed before running a task or workflow?

Hi, I have my Premium licence from Microsoft 365 Copilot environment, but I don't have access to Cowork Agent, why? It's only accessible with the Frontier program? Please make accessible to all premium licenses. Thanks

Even when we provide the entire context, select specific files, Cowork still uses the whole onedrive/sharepoint environment, which consumes a lot of useless credits. How can we deactivate that to ensure that sometimes it focuses only on what we provide and avoid spending too much?

I really love the way Cowork tells you what skills it is using. I really like the skills breaks downs. 

Is there any way to get a cost estimation before running the prompt? 

It is common for people to compare Copilot Chat with what they experience in Claude, especially since both solutions leverage Anthropic models in different ways within their respective platforms.

In the assessments we have conducted, Copilot appears to consume more than five times the resources or tokens that Claude uses when performing the same task. While we understand that Microsoft incorporates additional security, governance, and compliance layers that may drive higher consumption, the results from our testing suggest that the added overhead does not currently provide enough value to justify such a significant difference.

Could you share how Microsoft is addressing this area to ensure Copilot remains competitive from both a performance and efficiency perspective? It would be helpful to better understand the roadmap, optimization efforts, and any initiatives aimed at reducing resource consumption while maintaining the enterprise-grade security and governance capabilities that differentiate the platform.

Great info!

How can we best determine where and when to use copilot chat vs cowork?  I ask, because I would like to build a digital learning assistant, that will watch my daily processes and help me build skills to automate those processes.  But where can I put the skill/process to limit spend?

How can I get a Copilot AI agent to improve itself during the process?

It mentions in some places that Cowork now applies branding, but I do not see from where it does, nor it applies our Officially published brand kit. therefore, we had to do a skill and it consumes an extreme amount of credits unfortunately... When will the official brand kits be available in cowork when generating documents?