In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re recapping new Microsoft Copilot Studio features released in February 2025:
- Publish custom agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
- Add enterprise data with new Microsoft Graph connectors
- Import and export agent components in Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Analytics updates, including actions analysis and transcript enhancements
- Security: Cross-prompt injection attack (XPIA) mitigation improvements
- Microsoft 365 Agents Software Development Kit for JavaScript
- Embedded agent builder updates, including public web scoping and user feedback
- Twelve new languages supported in conversational agent creation experience
Publish custom agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
We’re excited to announce that the ability to publish your custom agents created in Copilot Studio directly to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now in public preview, unlocking new capabilities to customize and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot. This latest update enables your agents to take advantage of the full functionalities of Copilot Studio within Copilot Chat.
Accordingly, your agents published to Microsoft 365 can now utilize features like agent handoff, Azure AI Foundry integrations, orchestration selection, and—where more control of the conversation is needed—topics. They can also automate and execute business processes using autonomous triggers. With this greater functionality comes the need for greater oversight, so makers can also monitor their custom agents’ trends and performance with analytics (see more updates on analytics below).
Customers can also access the full security and governance features in the Microsoft Power Platform admin center, along with messages, quick replies, and adaptive cards enabled for Copilot Chat. Whether you’re launching a new agent or publishing an existing one, you can now benefit from additional channels and enable employees to access these agents through Microsoft 365 Copilot. To get started, head to Copilot Studio, enable the Microsoft 365 Copilot Channel, and select “Submit to Teams or Microsoft 365” when publishing.
Add enterprise data with new Microsoft Graph connections
Enterprise data is the cornerstone of businesses: shaping strategies, driving decisions, and making it possible for your agents to provide accurate and context-rich responses. This month, we released new out-of-the-box Microsoft Graph connectors in Copilot Studio and Copilot Chat out to public preview. Now you can connect your agents to data in Stack Overflow, Salesforce Knowledge, GitHub, and Unily, which makes it easy for your organizations’ agents to access and use those content sources.
Development teams can now retrieve documentation, code snippets, and track issues directly from GitHub repositories using simple queries from within Copilot Studio. Teams gain immediate access to both community and internal Q&A data, enabling instant solutions to coding and IT challenges. Additionally, sales, frontline, and customer support teams can pull customer insights, FAQs, and case resolutions from Salesforce Knowledge.
To get started, configure the new connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center. For more details, check out our guide: Set up Microsoft Graph connectors in the Microsoft 365 admin center | Microsoft Learn. Once the applications are connected, add them as Knowledge Sources in Copilot Studio. These connectors will also show up as additional knowledge in the Microsoft 365 agent builder.
Import and export agent components in Copilot Studio
In many cases, an organization’s agents will share common messaging and content sources, actions, triggers, and entities. Rather than repeatedly copying and pasting these foundational elements for every new agent, makers and admins can now use Component Collection to import, manage, and export core agent components—including topics, knowledge, actions, and entities—across various environments. This process not only accelerates agent creation, but it also allows you to designate a preferred solution that automatically integrates changes through Component Collection and Solution Explorer.
Customers can also configure pipelines and guide makers, which empower admins to centrally govern citizen-led and pro-dev-led projects at scale with less effort. Admins set up the appropriate safeguards that govern and facilitate solution development, testing, and delivery across the organization. Then, makers can submit deployment requests to admins from within Copilot Studio.
With the ability to set, template, reuse, and govern components, the process of building and scaling agents becomes easier, faster, and more consistent. To learn more about these capabilities, check out the following resources:
- Create and manage solutions in Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Export and import Copilot using solutions
- Create reusable component collections (preview)
- Set your preferred solution
- Overview of pipelines in Microsoft Power Platform
Analytics updates: Actions analysis, transcript enhancements, and Government Community Cloud availability
When it comes to understanding agent experience, optimization, and ROI, analytics are critical. This month, Copilot Studio rolled out several new analytics features. The built-in analytics page will now feature detailed insights and telemetry for the actions configured within the agent. This new view allows makers to identify the most-used actions, evaluate execution success, and optimize workflows with real-time data—critical for continuing to optimize and improve an agent’s performance and value.
Additionally, makers and admins with the “Transcript Viewer” role and permissions can now access a comprehensive view of conversations and responses for trend analysis and diagnostics. This feature has been eagerly anticipated; it provides deeper insights into the conversations your agents have with end users and how they track to the various key performance indicators (KPIs) within the analytics dashboard. These transcripts include detailed topic initiation, node triggers, and outcomes to help diagnose and refine interactions.
Lastly, we’ve expanded the regions in which customers can take advantage of these robust analytics insights by expanding to the Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud (GCC) in general availability. Review and benefit from these advanced analytics to gauge user engagement, performance, and satisfaction so you can further refine your agents. All these updates empower makers and admins to spot trends, resolve issues faster, and optimize performance, helping agents work more effectively for your end users.
Security: Cross-prompt injection attack (XPIA) mitigation improvements
Every year, cyberattacks get more sophisticated. In this age of generative AI, cross-domain or cross-prompt injection attacks (XPIAs) can occur when there are malicious instructions passed to the agent from an external system. These attacks can result in the agent taking an action or sending a message based on the malicious instructions.
At Microsoft, we’re committed to continuing cutting-edge research and proactive development to keep Copilot Studio language models and customers secure. It’s imperative that customers are protected from attacks that target agents to perform malicious actions that the’re not configured to automate. Based on state-of-the-art research, we recently rolled out a feature that adds more protection against—and better detection of—XPIAs, further reducing the risk of a successful attack. This feature is enabled by default everywhere and cannot be disabled.
What does this mean for Copilot Studio customers? It means you’ll be able to meet more stringent security requirements related to security protections, and that your data and operations are safeguarded against evolving threats. This proactive approach helps ensure that your organization remains compliant with industry standards and best practices for cybersecurity.
Microsoft 365 Agents Software Development Kit for JavaScript
The Microsoft 365 Agents Software Development Kit (SDK) is a powerful tool that provides developers with building blocks to create agents that handle user interactions, orchestrate requests, generate responses based on enterprise knowledge, and collaborate with other agents. In November 2024, we announced that the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK would support C# development. Now, developers can also use JavaScript to create agents.
With the rollout of this feature, developers can take advantage of their existing skills and knowledge in JavaScript to build sophisticated agents that can enhance productivity and streamline business processes. The Microsoft 365 Agents SDK provides interoperability with Copilot Studio, allowing developers to extend existing agents built using Copilot Studio with additional functionality.
For all the information and documentation, check out the Agents for JavaScript repository on GitHub. You’ll find samples, templates, test bots, and plenty of other resources to get started.
Embedded Microsoft 365 agent builder updates
We’re excited to announce two powerful improvements to the embedded agent builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot, powered by Copilot Studio: Public web scoping and end user feedback.
Makers can now ground their Copilot agents on scoped publicly available websites, and leverage these websites as knowledge. Rather than letting agents perform a full web search, makers can constrain their agents’ external knowledge sources to specific websites for the most relevant answers. This capability already existed in custom agents built from Copilot Studio, but it now extends to agents built in Microsoft 365. This feature is enabled automatically under the “Configure” tab. In the “Knowledge” section, simply enter the URLs of approved public websites and your agents will use those as their knowledge base.
This new feature gives makers greater control over the information that Copilot agents access, and helps ensure responses are more accurate and scoped to the right context. By specifying trusted websites, makers can enhance the reliability of the agents’ answers and provide end-users with more consistent responses. Additionally, this capability helps in maintaining the integrity of the information provided by the agents, by limiting the sources to those that have been vetted and approved by the makers.
The public web scoping feature is particularly useful for organizations that have specific knowledge bases or industry-specific websites they rely on. By integrating these sources, agents can deliver more specialized and contextually appropriate responses, which can be crucial for customer support, technical assistance, and other use cases where more precise information is necessary. This increased function can even help reduce the frequency of escalations to human support.
Makers can also now submit feedback—compliments, problems, or suggestions—directly to the product team from inside the Microsoft 365 agent builder. Just as end users can rate an AI-generated agent response with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, makers can now do so in preview chat. You can also use the “Send Feedback” option to send feedback at any time while using agent builder, and there’s a specific feedback option if a responsible AI (RAI) error pops up. When submitting feedback, you can choose to write a comment and, optionally, allow the product team to collect supporting metadata like AI Prompt, AI Response, and Conversation ID. (You can review this data before clicking send.)
This feature is exciting because makers now have a way to share feedback without breaking their flow during the agent authoring process, and with relevant surrounding context. This helps the product team react quickly to feedback, without needing to go back and forth to get additional troubleshooting information, and gets you back on track as soon as possible.
Twelve new languages supported in conversational agent creation experience
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We’re delighted to announce the addition of twelve new languages to the conversational agent creation experience in Copilot Studio and the Microsoft 365 agent builder. The new supported languages include Chinese (traditional), Czech, Finnish, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
This feature enables expanded language support in areas where the Microsoft 365 agent builder was recently launched. It’s auto-enabled for makers whose browser language is one of the supported languages and whose environment is in a Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service supported region. The language of the conversational agent creation experience will default to the browser language if the specific language is supported in this new update. This means that thousands of makers can create new agents in their native language, without further configuration, and serve their local customers natively.
Read more about language support and use in Copilot Studio here.
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