The Copilot Cowork Release Blog A complete record of milestones, launches, and newest innovations.
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In plain English: a connector is the “bridge” that lets Cowork safely pull data from another platform like Dynamics 365, Fabric, and Power BI—and in some cases send updates back. A plugin packages one or more connectors and skills together to help Cowork do a specific job. If something says read & write, it means Cowork can both read data from that app and where supported and configured, help write updates back (for example, create or update a record), not just view it.
* Plugins can include only skills, only connectors or a combination of the two packaged together.
Custom created plugins
Organizations can build custom plugins for their own needs or publish them for broader use. For example, a plugin could turn fragmented data into a single business snapshot, help new hires get up to speed by pulling the right context on day one, or connect to a pricing engine so Cowork can generate quotes on the spot. If you already use Claude Cowork plugins, you can bring them into Copilot Cowork in a few simple steps. Learn how to add, create, and manage plugins in Copilot Cowork and start building yours today.
Partner plugins coming soon:
* Partner integrations for LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), Miro, monday.com, and S&P Global Energy are available in the coming weeks
Whatever tools your team runs on, you’ll be able to bring them into Cowork. In the coming weeks, we're launching integrations with LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), Miro, monday.com, and S&P Global Energy in Cowork. With additional partners including Adobe, Atlassian, Box, Enosix, Harvey.AI, Money Forward, Morningstar, and Swoop by Prezi also on the way. This is just the first wave, with more plugins to come.
Native plugins & connectors
We’re introducing a Fabric IQ integration, starting with Power BI, that lets you bring your Power BI data into Cowork workflows. This enables a seamless shift from spotting a trend to acting on it, across everything from pipeline health to operational KPIs. Cowork works with the Dynamics 365 plugins to connect with Sales, Customer Service, and ERP so the work that moves your business—pipeline reviews, case resolution, supplier approvals—happens alongside everything else in Cowork, with the full context of the customer and transaction right there.
Here's how plugins and connectors come together in real-world scenarios
The following examples are illustrative scenarios and may require configuration, custom skills, appropriate permissions, and data readiness. Capabilities may vary by customer and environment. Partner plugins will become available in the coming weeks.
Finance contract review
A finance manager asks Cowork to help review an existing customer’s contract and surface potential issue for review before countersigning, then send an email to review the results.
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Plugin recipe |
What it does |
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Dynamics 365 ERP apps |
Cowork pulls AR/AP history, deferred revenue, and long term unpaid invoices and payment history from Dynamics 365 — confirming the customer's receivables are current and checking approval thresholds to surface any outliers before countersigning. |
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Fabric IQ |
….then benchmarks the terms against historical deals in Fabric IQ |
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Core Cowork capability |
… so Cowork can benchmark key terms — price, payment terms, discount, tenor — against the customer's own historical deals. |
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Custom skill: Compliance Checker |
A customer-built Compliance Checker skill helps validate the contract against internal policy — revenue recognition rules, approval thresholds, and required legal language — and highlights potential gaps for human sign-off. |
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LSEG *Coming soon |
Combined Quantitative & Qualitative Diligence Cowork assembles a multi-signal view using LSEG data: Worldscope fundamentals and IBES estimates for the counterparty’s financial health, sector-level credit spread curves and live swap rates to benchmark the contract’s pricing, FX forwards for any cross-border payment terms, and a sweep of IFR and news headlines for material events – producing a market-grounded risk context to sit alongside the compliance and ERP checks.1 |
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S&P Global Energy *Coming soon |
Cowork then cross-references the customer contract's commodity pricing and indexation clauses against S&P Global Energy's AI Ready Data — surfacing the latest rationales, commentaries, and market analyses across crude oil, natural gas, and related commodities — to flag any terms that sit out of line with current market conditions. |
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Out-of-the-box Cowork skills |
The output: a consolidated finance review report attached and sent to the right reviewers (finance, legal, and compliance leads) for approvals before countersigning. |
1Cowork does not provide financial advice or replace a financial advisor. It can help assemble market context and supporting research for a team’s review, but it should not be relied on as a complete or sole basis for financial risk assessment or decision-making.
Sales: Customer commit risk
An account executive asks Cowork to review deals closing this quarter and help highlight which opportunities may be at risk
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Plugin recipe |
What it does |
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Dynamics 365 Sales |
Cowork pulls the open sales opportunities in the commit-stage from Dynamics 365 Sales, including estimated revenue, close date and primary contact and then... |
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Fabric IQ |
...compares each deal to historical close patterns with Fabric IQ to flag the ones that don’t follow historical norms. |
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Core Cowork capability |
Then Cowork compares each live deal against those patterns — surfacing the ones that don't follow the norm. |
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Custom skill: Risk Scoring Model |
Then Cowork runs everything through the customer's custom Risk Scoring skill, which applies their own internal rubric to help assign a risk tier to opportunities based on the customer’s defined criteria. |
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Dynamics 365 Customer Service |
It also checks Dynamics 365 Customer Service for account health — bringing together context from open and closed cases — since service issues are often the earliest warning signs. |
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Out-of-the-box Cowork skills |
Cowork helps prepare the quarter-close review meetings for the top three opportunities, assembling draft PowerPoint decks for the team to review, and attaching them to the meeting invites. |
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Dynamics 365 Sales
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After each meeting, Dynamics 365 Sales automatically attaches the Teams meeting transcript to the opportunity record — so nothing falls through the cracks. |
Marketing: Market Entry Strategy
A marketing exec asks Cowork to help evaluate and compare three potential markets for H2.
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Plugin recipe |
What it does |
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Dynamics 365 Sales |
Cowork pulls existing opportunity pipeline and customer concentration by geography from Dynamics 365 Sales to see where there's already organic pull versus where they'd be starting cold. |
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Fabric IQ |
Fabric IQ models revenue scenarios for each market based on how similar expansions have played out historically, giving a realistic range. |
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Core Cowork capability |
…then models revenue scenarios for each candidate market — grounding the ranges in how similar expansions have played out for this customer, not generic forecasts. |
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Custom skill: Market Prioritization Rubric |
A customer can create a custom Market Prioritization Rubric skill that scores each candidate on the criteria that matter to this company so the scoring reflects their own playbook, not a generic framework |
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Core Cowork capability |
From there, Cowork produces an interactive HTML dashboard with a side-by-side view of all three markets that leadership can filter and poke at before the session, and a PowerPoint deck built from the same analysis. |
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Miro *Coming soon |
Cowork uses a Miro skill to build a visual pros/cons board — color-coded nodes laying the three markets side by side against the team's criteria and past expansion decisions, so leadership can see the trade-offs at a glance and align on a choice. |
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monday.com *Coming soon |
A monday.com skill then spins up a planning board pre-populated with the market comparison and open decision points, so the team can work through alignment in the room instead of building the board live. |
Plugins are a big part of how Cowork gets more capable over time, but these are not the only enhancements coming to Cowork today.
Now available on iOS and Android mobile
You can now delegate tasks to Cowork wherever you are—on your commute, between meetings, or away from your desk. Start a task on your phone and pick it up later on your desktop or begin on your desktop and stay on top of it while on-the-go. Your laptop could be sitting at your desk, closed, and the task will be ready regardless. It's the same conversation, same context, always synced in the cloud and now in your pocket. Cowork is rolling out now for eligible Frontier users on mobile iOS and Android in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.
Integrated with Agent 365
Cowork is now integrated with Agent 365 for observability, security, and governance—so IT and security teams can bring Cowork under enterprise control without reinventing the wheel, extending existing identity, compliance, and endpoint protections from users to agents through a single distributed control plane. Learn more here: https://aka.ms/agent365docs
This is just the beginning. Every new plugin brings more of your organization’s skills and knowledge into Cowork, helping it work more like a capable teammate that understands how your business runs. With new mobile experiences and enterprise-grade security and governance, Cowork is ready to support work across apps, devices, and teams. Try Copilot Cowork today in the Frontier program.
Today we're expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot with the addition of Anthropic's latest model—Claude Opus 4.7—now available in Copilot Cowork (Frontier). Learn more about our announcement here.
Today, Copilot Cowork—designed for long-running, multi-step work in Microsoft 365—is available via the Frontier program. Join Frontier to get early access to Microsoft’s latest AI innovations.
Copilot Cowork makes it easy to delegate work. Describe the outcome you want and Cowork automatically grounds the work in your emails, meetings, messages, files, and data. Powered by Work IQ, Cowork draws on signals across Outlook, Teams, Excel, and the rest of Microsoft 365 so it can act with the same understanding you bring to your job.
Built for the enterprise
Copilot Cowork runs with security and governance boundaries. Identity, permissions, and compliance policies apply by default, and actions and outputs are auditable. Cowork runs in a protected, sandboxed cloud environment, so tasks can keep progressing safely as you move across devices. This is what makes execution durable at enterprise scale.
Working closely with Anthropic, we have integrated the technology behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot. It is this multi-model advantage that makes Copilot different. Your work is not limited by one brand of models. Copilot hosts the best innovation from across the industry and chooses the right model for the job regardless of who built it. This is a pattern of work that will only become more powerful as new models and ways of working emerge.
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