Add the Copilot connector as a knowledge source for agents in Copilot Studio.

 You may also want to rely on business knowledge stored in non-Microsoft systems. Copilot connectors help accomplish this by indexing your organization's external data into Microsoft Graph.

This configuration allows data to be added as a knowledge source for any agent in Copilot Studio. These connectors fully respect source-level access permissions, ensuring that users only access content they are authorized to view. This approach provides a secure, comprehensive foundation for richer, more context-aware agent responses.

Use the Copilot connector as a knowledge source for the agent. 

Now you can base agent responses on non-Microsoft enterprise data available through Copilot connectors in Copilot Studio. You can select Copilot connectors previously configured by the tenant administrator and add them as knowledge sources for your agent.

1. Open the agent.

2. Select Add knowledge from the Overview or Knowledge page , or Properties of the Generative Answers node.

3. From the Add knowledge dialog box , select the desired Copilot connector.

Note : If you don't see the Copilot connector you're looking for, select Advanced . If the connector still doesn't appear, contact your administrator.

4. Select the desired connection and then select Add to agent  to complete the connection.

Enterprise data sources are supported by the Microsoft Copilot connector.

Copilot Studio supports all Copilot connectors listed in Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for Microsoft Search.

Note :

1. For better search results with the Microsoft 365 Copilot connector, you should have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license under the same tenant as your agent and enable Work IQ.
2. For most Microsoft Copilot connectors, you can use the same data sources to underpin the agent responses you use to supplement Microsoft Search. To see these enterprise data sources in the agent knowledge list, your tenant administrator must configure them first.
3. You can ask your tenant administrator to set up the Microsoft Copilot connector. If you don't have the Microsoft Copilot connector, please refer to the article: Adding the Power Platform connector as a knowledge source for agents (preview) .
4. To learn more about the differences between Copilot connectors and Power Platform connectors, see the article: Comparing Copilot connectors and Power Platform connectors as a knowledge source for agents.
5. You must configure agents to use the Microsoft Copilot connector as a knowledge source with the correct authentication settings when publishing to channels. You must provide scope ExternalItem.Read.Allas part of the manual authentication settings.