Enable makers to author custom actions in Copilot Studio

Important

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Enabled for Public preview General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts Aug 2024 -

Business value

Enable more makers with zero to minimum coding knowledge so they can author business logic using natural language inside Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Feature details

Makers will be able to author instant low-code plug-ins as custom actions inside Copilot Studio with data grounded inside Microsoft Dataverse to perform powerful business operations. The experience planned is as follows:

  1. Build plugins. Look up enterprise data in Dataverse, expose generative answers, call your backend APIs, or manually create new topics for Copilot to talk about.

  2. Publish back to Copilot. Publish and enable your new plug-in.

  3. Begin the conversation. Interact within Copilot chat and see your data and workflows come to life without leaving the app.