Get started with agents in the Microsoft Copilot app

Agents extend what you can do with Microsoft Copilot by helping you perform specific tasks and customize your Copilot experience. Agent capabilities and availability can vary based on your account type, subscription, and organization settings. When you’re signed in with a work or school account, agents can also connect to your organization’s knowledge and data sources and help automate business processes.

You can use pre-built agents, agents created by others in your organization, or create your own. You can also share a link to an agent if you want to help someone find and use a specific agent. If you're signed in with a work or school account, you might also have access to agents created by your organization.

Agents are available in both the Web and Work tabs.

Why use agents

  • Enhanced productivity. Agents take on mundane and repetitive tasks, freeing up your time to focus on more strategic and creative endeavors.
  • Improved accuracy and consistency. Agents, with their precise algorithms and data processing capabilities, ensure a higher degree of accuracy and consistency in your work.
  • Personalized assistance. Agents provide personalized assistance, offering suggestions and solutions that are most relevant to your tasks.

Explore agents

  1. Start in the Microsoft Copilot app.
  2. In the navigation panel, find Agents, expand the chevron to see a list of pre-installed agents—or select All agents to see everything available in the Agent Store.
  3. Select an agent. If you're in the Agent Store, choose Add or Open.
  4. Select a prompt or type a question into the Message Copilot box.

Share agents

You can easily get a link to an agent so you can share it with someone else. 

  1. Start in the Microsoft Copilot App.

  2. Look for the agent you want to share.

    • If you see the agent under Agents in the left pane, hover on it and select More (…), then select Share. The link is copied so you can share it. 
      • If you don’t see the agent, select the All Agents link in the left pane, find the agent, hover on it, and select More (…), then select Share. The link is copied so you can share it.

More ways to work with agents