Copilot Customization with Plugins

 Dear Friends,

As, we know Microsoft Copilot helps as a personal assistant for work, helping with various tasks such as writing, summarizing, researching, and more. To retrieve and process new and real-time information, especially data that's specific to organization and workflows, Copilot requires plugins.

 

We can develop plugins that use the OpenAI schema to add custom functionality to Microsoft Copilot experiences, by connecting our own application data to Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is unable to retrieve real-time information from third-party services. Plugins can extend the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot by retrieving real-time information, to allow users to interact with the information in a natural way.

 

Microsoft Copilot uses the following process flow when the user starts conversation with query and Copilot answers the query by searching for and extracts info from plugin:

 

 

Benefits

• Plugins can retrieve information or perform tasks on behalf of a user.
• Plugins enhance the user experience by providing additional features and functionalities. Users can interact with plugins directly within the chat interface, making it a seamless part of their workflow.
• Copilot plugins can call connected services, perform actions, and provide answers without complex conversation flows. By enabling the Microsoft 365 Copilot setting in the Power Platform admin center, we can seamlessly connect tenant and Power Platform environment.
• The plugin ecosystem encourages community contributions. Developers can create and share plugins, fostering collaboration and innovation.

In summary, plugins empower Copilot to do more, enhance user interactions, and provide real-time insights. They’re a valuable addition to the Copilot ecosystem!

 

Future

Microsoft is working on extensibility options of Copilot for Microsoft 365 cloud. This extensibility also requires different licenses. For e.g., Copilot development with Copilot Studio is part of the Microsoft Copilot license. If the plugin uses Power Platform Connectors, users require a Power Platform license to use them.

In future, we can expect that Copilot analyzes input prompts, leverages machine learning techniques to generate content, and utilizes relevant data to fill in plugin parameters for executing commands.

 For more details refer: Microsoft Documentation

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