Build Automated Agents, Workflows, and Apps - New in Copilot Studio

Take a business process from prompt to production by building agents, workflows, and apps in one place with Copilot Studio. Describe the agent you need and generate its instructions and reusable skills, choose the model, connect MCP tools and specialist agents, then test its quality at scale with Evaluations.

Trigger workflows from incoming email, classify submissions, hand work to your agents, and pause for human review on the decisions that need it. Track timing and paths for every step in the Activity tab. Then generate a full stack app on your Dataverse data so your team can filter, review, and approve every bid from one shared view.

Jack Rowbotham, Copilot Studio Senior Product Manager, shares how to automate a procurement process for bids from multiple vendors, using agents that reason, route, and recommend. 

👥 Who it's for:

IT admins, Power Platform makers, solution architects, and developers building agentic solutions, plus operations and procurement teams automating reviews and approvals.

⏱️ Chapters:

00:00 Build agents, workflows, and apps in one place

01:04 Automate a multi-vendor bid review end to end

02:18 Build an agent from a prompt

03:28 Add models, MCP tools, and specialist agents

04:13 Test the bid agent in Preview

05:05 Evaluations

05:59 Automated workflows

07:42 Track every run in the Activity tab

08:13 Build an app from a prompt

09:10 Approve bids from the team app

09:37 Get started with Copilot Studio 

Copilot Studio brings agents, workflows, and apps together in one place, all running on the GitHub Copilot harness. In this video, a supplier email triggers a workflow, a bid evaluation agent checks the bid against tender requirements, and the procurement team makes the final call in a shared app.

Describe the agent you want, including the requirements to assess, the logic to apply, and the live data source to connect to. Copilot Studio reasons over your prompt, maps out its build steps, and generates the agent's name, instructions, and skills for requirement coverage and evidence verification. Connect Work IQ for supplier emails and the Dataverse MCP server for bid data, keep Claude Sonnet as the reasoning model, ground the agent in an RFP example PDF, and add a Supplier Risk specialist agent.

Test the agent in the Preview tab and watch its chain of thought as it flags gaps in certification, cold-chain handling, and insurance minimums. Then run Evaluations with your own conversations, auto-generated tests, or a CSV file. Here, 18 test cases met the evaluation criteria 89% of the time.

In the Workflows tab, drag in an Outlook "When a new email arrives" trigger, a Classify step for RFP submissions, a Get Attachment connector, and an Agent step running the Bid Evaluation Agent. An if/else Human Review step brings in a person on flagged bids, and the Researcher agent and a recommendation agent finish the job before results land in Dataverse.

Finish in Apps by describing a Bid Management App connected to your Dataverse table, or to sources like SharePoint through connectors. Apply company branding with a follow-up prompt, then filter bids that need human review and approve decisions from the app. 

Try it for yourself at copilotstudio.microsoft.com. Subscribe to Microsoft Mechanics for more videos like this.

🔗 Related links:

— Get started with Copilot Studio: https://copilotstudio.microsoft.com

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