What is Copilot Studio?

Building Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio

Nia Joseph

AI Product Manager, Microsoft

Meet your instructor

 

 

 

• Nia Joseph → AI Product Manager, Microsoft
• Works on AI-assisted products
• Best way to learn a tool is to build something real with it

What you'll learn

 

 

• Ch 1 → Get oriented and build your first agent
• Ch 2 → Give it the ability to act, with flows
• Ch 3 → Ground it in your documents and data
• Ch 4 → Publish, monitor, and hand it off

 

So what is Copilot Studio?

 

 

 

• Low-code workspace for building AI agents
• An agent → design once, reuse for everyone
• Sits alongside Microsoft 365: Outlook, SharePoint, Excel

An agent, not a one-off answer

 

 

• One-off prompt → one answer, then gone
• An agent → answers every time, the same way
• Best for questions that keep coming up

Build in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Copilot Studio?

 

 

 

• Microsoft 365 Copilot → describe your agent, add files as knowledge
• Quick to build: lightweight Q&A agents for individuals or small teams
• Copilot Studio → topics, agent flows, connectors, and broad publishing

Getting around Studio

 

 

 

• Home → where you land
• Agents → where your assistants live
• Workflows → multi-step automations
• Inside an agent → areas run across the top

Two kinds of agent

 

 

 

• The arrow beside New agent → both options
• GitHub Copilot tag and coin icon → uses credits, skip it
• Other ways to build → Agent (Standard)

Let's practice!

Building Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio