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This article applies to multiple harnesses. The harness you use affects the billing, features, and capabilities of what you build.
Workflows are the automation experience powered by the GitHub Copilot harness in Copilot Studio. You build them with the GitHub Copilot harness on a redesigned visual canvas with native AI actions, agent handoffs, and node-level testing.
Workflows in Copilot Studio automate repetitive tasks and integrate your apps and services. You can trigger a workflow manually, based on other automated events or agents, or on a schedule.
Workflows consume Copilot Studio capacity for each action they execute.
Benefits of workflows
Workflows offer several benefits.
- Consistent execution: Workflows are deterministic. They execute actions or tasks following a rule-based path. The same input always produces the same output, making them reliable and predictable.
- Simple workflow creation: You can design, edit, and automate workflows directly in Copilot Studio, using AI-driven suggestions for triggers, actions, and automation steps.
- End-to-end process visibility: Design workflows, monitor their performance, and get actionable insights to improve your automation projects, all in Copilot Studio's unified interface. You can also view details of a workflow, such as the workflow name, description, and status.
Triggers and actions in workflows
A workflow consists of a trigger and at least one action.
Triggers
A trigger is an event that starts a workflow. Triggers can be instant (manually run on demand), based on a schedule, or triggered by other events.
Actions
An action is a task that a workflow performs. For example, you want to get a notification in Microsoft Teams when your manager sends you an email. Receiving an email from your manager is the trigger that starts this workflow. Sending a message in Microsoft Teams is the action that happens in response.
There are different types of actions you can use in workflows:
- AI capabilities: AI-driven actions that leverage large language models (LLMs) to generate text, process documents, run a prompt on a model, call an agent, and create a natural language reply to a calling agent.
- Human in the loop: Actions that require human intervention, such as requesting information.
- Built-in tools: Control structures for looping and branching, data operations, date and time functions, and child workflows.
- Connectors: Connect to various services to perform tasks and retrieve data. Connectors include Microsoft 365 services, third-party services, and custom connectors.
Manage workflow capacity usage
Important
Once you fully consume your environment's prepaid Copilot Studio capacity, new workflow runs are blocked until capacity is available. Running workflows complete normally. To avoid interruption, monitor capacity usage and consider turning on pay-as-you-go billing. Learn more in workflow enforcement.
In the Power Platform admin center > Licensing > Copilot Studio, review the Agent flow actions used by each workflow.
Create workflows
You create workflows in the visual designer.
To get started with the GitHub Copilot harness:
- Select Workflows.
- Select New workflow.
- Add a trigger, and then continue building in the designer.
Workflows that have the When an agent calls the flow trigger can be added as tools in agents. Learn more in Add a workflow to an agent.