A Microsoft Copilot tool where people describe a declarative agent in plain language, or fill in a Configure tab, and ground it in sources like SharePoint or Copilot connectors. If the agent later needs actions or workflows, a copy moves into Copilot Studio.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Copilot
Licensed users get this workplace AI assistant, which grounds large language models in organisational data from Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps. It respects existing permissions, so people see only what they could already open; without the licence, people use the web-grounded Microsoft Copilot Chat instead.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Description (Image Analysis 3.2)
Visual feature in Image Analysis 3.2 that produces natural-language caption sentences sorted by confidence, read from Description.Captions[0].Text. Version 4.0 swaps it for Caption.
- Declarative
Describing the result wanted (as Terraform configurations and Bicep files do) and letting tooling work out the steps. Microsoft favours this over imperative scripting.
- Agent
A specialised form of Microsoft Copilot set up for one particular job, pairing instructions with knowledge and skills. You can create one in Copilot Studio, SharePoint or Agent Builder, and administrators control them from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- LIKE
Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.
- Copilot connectors
Bring content from outside systems into Microsoft 365 so that Copilot, agents and Microsoft Search can work with it. Items are either indexed in Microsoft Graph with their access lists or fetched on demand, and in both cases the source's permissions still apply.