Release plan
For information on new features that will be released in the coming months that you can use for planning, see Release Planner .
Released versions
For information on new features, bug fixes, and improvements that have been released in the past few weeks, see Released versions of Microsoft Copilot Studio .
Note : Releases roll out over several days. New or updated features may not appear immediately.
Notable changes
The following sections list features that have been released in recent months, along with links to related information.
March 2026
- (Preview) Use Work IQ tools to connect your Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents to the Work IQ service. By using this connection, you can access real-time work insights and context from Microsoft 365 files, emails, meetings, chats, and more.
- View and filter detailed lists of user questions and responses from agent conversations. Use this data to identify vulnerabilities, create test suites for evaluation, and export data for further analysis.
- For users with permission to view Bot logs, session logs downloaded from Copilot Studio now include customer satisfaction level (CSAT) values at the session level.
- For users with permission to view Bot logs, after you filter the list of questions or responses, you can download the filtered questions or responses to a .csv file.
- Use the Prompt Assistant in the Prompt Builder to compose prompts faster with suggestions powered by the GPT model. This feature helps reduce the time needed to create effective prompts.
- Add Bing Custom Search as a knowledge source to rely on a curated web index and limit the scope of the agent's response using a custom configuration ID.
- Configure action themes after calling the voice assistant to automatically trigger backend actions after the call ends, based on how the conversation concluded.
- Configure repeat messages in Question nodes with randomization support to improve conversation recovery for retry prompts, entity recognition errors, and voice scenarios.
- Implement accessibility best practices for Adaptive Cards to support screen readers, keyboard navigation, and Teams-specific scenarios. These practices help you build a more comprehensive agent experience.
- Agent Evaluation (GA) is now available. You can validate agent performance using custom test suites to help identify strengths and areas for improvement in different scenarios.
- Create multi-turn conversation tests in Copilot Studio to evaluate agent performance in real-world conversation flows instead of single-turn interactions.
- ChatGPT-5 is now available globally (except in GCC environments) for use in production agents.
- Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 , and Claude Opus are now available globally (except in GCC environments). Use these models to optimize inference depth, quality, latency, and cost for your agent. The availability of some models may require data processing and storage outside your organization's geographic location.
- Use the node agent to call the Copilot Studio agent from the agent flow.
February 2026
- Improve agent responses to Microsoft 365 Graph connectors based on request tickets. Agents more accurately retrieve ServiceNow request tickets and Azure DevOps tasks, and generate clear, actionable summaries, improving workflow reliability and time to value.
- Select Claude Sonnet 4.5 (beta) for Computer Use agents. This model improves sophisticated decision-making capabilities for complex tasks, increasing reliability and success rates for advanced use cases.
- Improvements to the prompt generator include:
- Configure content moderation sensitivity for each prompt to control how hate/fairness, sex, violence, and self-harm content is filtered—supporting document processing scenarios and predefined with low or high sensitivity settings for managed models.
- Optimize prompts with the new Claude models by selecting Claude Opus 4.6 or Claude Sonnet 4.5, allowing granular control over reasoning depth, quality, latency, and cost per prompt.
- Edit instructions and set prompts directly within the agent tool details, bringing model selection, input, knowledge, and testing into a single, streamlined authoring experience.
January 2026
- (Preview) New improvements for agent evaluation:
- Providing real-time positive/negative feedback on assessment results verifies scoring performance and promotes continuous improvement in assessment reliability.
- View the agent's input, decision, and output sequence using an activity map so you can quickly diagnose problems and gain a better understanding of how the agent operates in real time.
- Using a validated CSV template to create test suites reduces formatting errors and helps your team standardize review data faster.
- (Preview) Expand Computer Use capabilities with new model support, integrated credentials, enhanced audit logging with session playback, and cloud PC pooling—giving you better security, scalability, and governance for agent-driven workflows.
- (Official Version) Use the Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code to build, edit, and manage agents within Microsoft Visual Studio Code, supporting advanced and highly flexible developer workflows.
December 2025
Compare multiple agent versions side-by-side to confirm improvements and quickly detect errors when evaluating the agent using test datasets.
November 2025
- Updates for the models used in Copilot Studio:
- On November 24, 2025, GPT-5 Chat was officially deployed to Copilot Studio in Europe and the United States. You can use the available models for orchestration in production agents.
- (Preview) Automatically create Microsoft Entra agent identities for agents. When enabled, this feature automatically applies identity management to each agent by assigning a Microsoft Entra agent identity, helping administrators secure and manage agents more effectively.
- Work IQ improves knowledge retrieval capabilities for SharePoint-based agents. Updated system architecture and new retrieval methods deliver more accurate, contextually rich responses, enhancing response quality.
Note : Some queries may result in slightly higher latency.
- Improve response accuracy with SharePoint metadata filters. Use metadata such as filename, owner, and modification date to refine knowledge retrieval and ensure responses come from the most relevant and up-to-date documents.
- Coordinate multiple agents to delegate complex tasks to specialized agents, improving accuracy and accelerating end-to-end automation. Enhance the capabilities of agents by linking them with other agents—within your environment or external sources such as Microsoft Fabric data agents—for modular, task-specific functionality.
- (Preview) Add toolkits to agents for faster setup. Quickly equip your agents with curated toolkits from the Outlook and SharePoint connectors in one step. This simplifies the setup process, minimizes errors, and ensures consistent, reliable coordination.
- Copy agents from Microsoft 365 Copilot to Copilot Studio. Easily transfer agents you've created in Microsoft 365 Copilot to Copilot Studio to unlock advanced capabilities such as multi-step workflows, custom integrations, and broader deployment options.
- (Preview) Add user input to the agent workflow with an action requesting information. Pause the agent flow to gather details from the designated reviewer via Outlook, then resume execution using their response as a dynamic parameter. This action ensures the workflow can handle missing data or context without relying on hardcoded values.
- Update your Power Platform API calls to use the new 'copilotstudio' namespace. The previous namespace will continue to function temporarily, but switching now ensures compatibility with future updates.
- Utilize component collections with new enhancements. Access collections directly from the sidebar, quickly export or import collections, and take advantage of support for main agents and new connector types, including child agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
October 2025
- Updates for the models used in Copilot Studio:
- From October 27th to 31st, 2025, GPT-4o will be removed from Copilot Studio for agents using genesis orchestration, except for GCC clients who can continue to use GPT-4o. The new default model is GPT-4.1, offering improved performance, reliability, and consistency across experiences. GPT-4o will remain available until November 26th, 2025, if you enable the "Continue using retired models" option.
- Choose from a variety of AI models to customize the agent's performance to your needs.
- (Preview) Testing and deploying GPT-5 models to explore enhancement capabilities and improve agent performance.
- Learn about Copilot Studio Kit, a toolset developed by Power Customer Consulting Team (Power CAT) to help test custom agents, validate AI-generated content, analyze key conversational performance metrics, and more.
- (Preview) Group related user questions into topics and delve into the analysis to uncover patterns and gain deeper insights.
- Track the time and cost savings achieved for both automated and conversational agents to measure ROI and optimize performance.
- Access a unified activity view and logs, pin sessions, and submit feedback for faster and more efficient troubleshooting.
- (Preview) Accelerate thread execution to minimize waiting times and deliver a faster, smoother user experience.
- Use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to access dynamic, real-time content—such as files, database records, and API responses—for richer context and improved agent responses.
- (Preview) Evaluate your agent using customizable test suites—whether uploaded, manually created, or AI-generated. Test suites can include test cases using different testing methodologies measured against defined reference responses, helping teams identify strengths and areas for improvement. This capability supports a more reliable, high-quality agent experience in a variety of scenarios.
September 2025
- (Preview) Automate tasks in Windows desktop applications using the Computer Use Agent (CUA), combining vision and reasoning to interact with the interface—even when APIs are unavailable.
- Embed Copilot agents into Android, iOS, and Windows applications using the Client SDK to provide rich, multimodal conversations within a native experience.
- (Preview) Upload Excel, CSV, and PDF files for your agent to analyze using Python code, supported by the in-chat code interpreter.
August 2025
- (Widely available) Use the code interpreter to create Python code-based actions from natural language in both the prompt generator and the agent workflow.
- (Widely available) Improve agent response accuracy in Copilot Studio agents by using file groups to organize uploaded local files as a single knowledge source and apply variable-based instructions.
- Allow users to upload files and images that your Copilot Studio agent can analyze and use to generate responses, then transfer those files to downstream systems using agent flow, Power Automate, connectors, tools, and themes for seamless integration.
- (Widely available) Track and analyze unanswered queries and the quality of AI responses generated, using the response rate and quality metrics generated in the Analytics page to improve agent performance.
- Connect directly to an existing MCP server in Copilot Studio using a guided experience.
July 2025
- Use advanced custom NLUs to define topics and entities with your own data for greater accuracy and better containment, especially for Dynamics 365 scenarios.
- Instantly search across all of agent knowledge, topics, tools, skills, and entities with a new in-app search experience accessible via shortcuts or top-level search.
- Estimate time and cost savings based on successful runs or actions, and customize it to your organization's metrics with ROI analysis for automated agents.
- Viewing user comments with like/dislike icons in the analytics section provides a deeper understanding of customer feedback on the support agent's response.
- (Preview) Display Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) labels on connectors, test chat, Teams, and Microsoft 365 Copilot to prevent oversharing and support a safe, regulatory-compliant AI experience. With new integrations between Copilot Studio, Dataverse, and Microsoft Purview, you can automatically classify sensitive data and ensure support agents comply with Purview sensitivity labels.
- Sharing agent support information directly via WhatsApp makes it easier to reach customers.
- (Preview) Optimizing authentication for actions supported by Microsoft Entra ID.
- (Preview) Streamline authentication for actions and connectors supported by Microsoft Entra ID with SSO Consent Card by allowing users to grant consent directly within the chat without redirection and interruption.
June 2025
- Improve the user experience for the tools:
- Group and filter to make searching and discovering tools easier.
- It supports IntelliSense auto-completion and input utilities such as calendar control, file selector, and time zone selector when configuring these tools.
- Improve the tool-calling experience for clients with more options for complex inputs and clearer error messages.
- Automatically detects SSO for connectors.
- (Preview) Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning supports training models on your own enterprise data for domain-specific tasks and integrating these models into Microsoft 365 experiences like Copilot in Teams, Word, and Chat. You can also connect your tuned models to custom agents.
- Helpful details addressing questions that Generative AI hasn't yet answered, grouped by topic, can be found in the Answer rate and quality section of the Analytics page .
- Analyzing knowledge sources for automated agents.
- The ability to directly insert Power Fx formulas into the embedded prompt editor.
- Simplify text validation and extraction with regular expression support for Power Fx formulas using the IsMatch, Match, or MatchAll functions.
- (Preview) Supports file grouping as a knowledge source.
- (Preview) Coordination generation is available for all supported languages.
- The Channels page has been redesigned.
- (Preview for the US only) Ability to select the mini GPT-4.1 test response model for generated responses.
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