Extend agent capabilities with Copilot connectors
[This article is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]
Copilot Studio makes it easy to extend the capabilities of agents with actions, Copilot connectors, and sources of data. You can take an existing agent, for example Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales, which works with your organization's sales data, and extend it using data from an extensive ecosystem of connectors provided by Microsoft. Alternatively, you can extend a custom agent with a custom connector to use sources such as custom data sources and APIs within your organization. For example, you could:
- Retrieve a list of sales opportunities
- Get information from your order management system about orders associated to the customer
- Check the weather at your customer's current location if you're planning a site visit
Copilot connectors help customers to easily discover and bring multiple enterprise data sources, by leveraging Microsoft Graph connectors and Power Platform connectors, to expand the capabilities of agents and agent extensions. Using agent connectors, users can add knowledge from their enterprise systems to agents through a no-code experience, and perform actions on these enterprise systems.
Agent connectors include data sources within the productivity cloud in Microsoft 365, business data in Dynamics 365, and analytical data in Microsoft Fabric, as well as non-Microsoft enterprise data sources. Through agent connectors, you can now ground your agent responses with multiple enterprise data sources for more relevant and reliable responses from agents and agent extensions.
- For more information on all the supported knowledge sources using Copilot connectors, see Knowledge sources overview.
- For more information on Copilot connectors that have enterprise data added using Microsoft Graph connectors, see Add Enterprise data as a knowledge source.
Requirements
- Maker access to the agent to allow you to extend it
- Copilot Studio license for the maker
- Data sources to use to integrate other data
- Information you need to connect to the content sources (connectors, APIs, and so on)
- Credentials for the systems you're connecting to
- Assistance from the administrator of your agent to enable the extension once it's published
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