Copilot connectors and tools overview

[This article is prerelease documentation and is subject to change.]

How does it work?

When you sign in to Copilot Studio, you're allowed to access specific agents based on the license associated with your credentials. The list of agents available to you depends on these permissions. If you don't see the agent you wish to extend, verify your credentials. Also try connecting to the agent itself, or try to trigger any jobs that must occur to prepare the agent for use. See the sections detailing the authoring experience for examples.

A maker starts by selecting the agent whose functionality they wish to extend:

• Custom agents
• Other copilots that they have maker access to in their organization
• Microsoft 365 Copilot

For custom agents, you can add tools directly to the agent.

For Microsoft 365 Copilot, you don't extend directly with tools. Instead, you extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with an agent built in Copilot Studio. You can bring tools into Microsoft 365 Copilot in a three step process:

1. Create an agent.
2. Add tools to the agent.
3. Publish the agent and make it available to Microsoft 365 Copilot.

To select an agent to extend, start by selecting Agents in the main menu. For a custom agent, select from the list of custom agents on the Agents page. For Copilot agents, select Copilot for Microsoft and then select the Copilot agent from the Copilot for Microsoft 365 agents list.

View existing tools for an agent

After selecting an agent, you can view the tools currently available for the agent within the configuration/authoring panel for the agent.

To view the existing tools for an agent, select the Tools tab, or the overview Tools section, on the agent page.

The list of tools added to the agent appears.

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