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New Copilot agents: Supercharge Microsoft 365 Copilot

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ClintWilliams
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Oct 31, 2024

Are you ready to supercharge Microsoft 365 Copilot? Following the recent Wave 2 announcements and the general availability of Copilot agents, we are excited to introduce a curated set of new Copilot agents developed by Microsoft. These agents are designed to help you and your team optimize and reinvent your business processes. 

 

Copilot agents can help you transform complex and dynamic processes. By integrating Copilot agents into your workflow, you can harness their power, right within the flow of your work. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, these agents utilize the same scalable, secure infrastructure and platform, tailored to your business needs, providing an intuitive and advanced experience without the need for coding. 

 

We are releasing the following Copilot agents to enhance your Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and help showcase what’s possible with simple agents created using Copilot Studio agent builder, like the coaching agents and advanced agents created with pro-code like Visual Creator. 

 

Help your ideas come to life with Visual Creator 
 

Visual Creator: Allows users to generate images, and soon videos, using natural language prompts. Its simple interface provides guidance of what you can create and how to write your prompt so you can enhance your work with compelling visuals.  

 

 

Elevate your career with Career Coach 

Career Coach: Provides personalized career development suggestions, including role understanding, skill gap analysis, learning opportunities, and career transition plans. It aims to understand the user’s current role, identify career goals, assess skills and gaps, suggest learning opportunities and create a detailed action plan for future growth. 

 

 

Plan and execute brainstorming with Idea Coach 

Idea Coach: Facilitates brainstorming sessions and planning, offering creative exercises, idea organization techniques, and feedback for improvement. It uses a fun, collaborative tone, asks iterative questions and provides detailed agendas and creative suggestions for running effective brainstorming sessions. 

 

Unlock your potential with Learning Coach 

Learning Coach: Helps users understand complex topics by breaking them down into simple, intermediate, and advanced summaries, and also provides guided practice and learning plans. It employs various techniques for learning complex topics, including glossaries, analogies, practice exercises and structured study plans. 

 

Write better prompts with Prompt Coach 

Prompt Coach: Assists users in creating effective and well-structured prompts for Copilot. Offering analysis, compliance checks and improvement suggestions. It asks for information on the goal, context, source, and expectations to generate effective prompts and provides detailed analyses for to help elevate your prompt writing prowess. 

 

Take your writing to the next level with Writing Coach 

Writing Coach: Provides detailed feedback on writing, helps change the tone of messages, translates text, and assists in writing instructions, stories, blog posts, and whitepapers. It focuses on clarity, coherence, grammar, and overall impact, offering specific improvements and alternatives for various types of document authoring. 
 

Availability and deployment 

These Copilot agents, created by Microsoft, extend the native capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot with instructions and knowledge sources relevant to each use case. They will be available to Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users from early October 2024. Make sure to check the Teams App Store or use the Microsoft 365 Admin Center to deploy them within your organization. 

 

Empower your developers and makers 

We are making the instructions for the Career Coach, Idea Coach, Learning Coach, Prompt Coach and Writing Coach Copilot agents, open source, so your makers and developers can use them as a starting point for their own journey in creating agents to improve your business workflows, via Copilot Studio or  Teams Toolkit. 

 

https://aka.ms/1PDASamples   

 

Get started today 

Don’t miss out on these powerful tools to enhance your Microsoft 365 Copilot experience. Start by ensuring your users can access these new tools, create excitement internally via your modern workplace champions and encourage your developers to review the source material on the PNP community today. 

Updated Oct 18, 2024
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  • markingram1's avatar
    markingram1
    Brass Contributor

    Thank you for this Clint. These agents will be super helpful to leverage in Copilot and AI classes, because they'll move students from being overwhelmed by an enormous variety of use cases to tangible examples they can explore right away. Looking forward to sharing these tools in class tomorrow! 

  • Ingo-Hampe's avatar
    Ingo-Hampe
    Brass Contributor

    I am planning to build my own copilot agent for a project. All the relevant data is in a Microsoft Teams Channel - here is my question: if I select a folder as knowledge source (in Copilot Studio), does the copilot also include subfolder into his knowledge?