FEATURES.mdv20 · history
Published docs in the Microsoft Copilot KB — the whole Microsoft Copilot estate: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, the Dynamics 365 Copilots, Power Platform Copilot, Fabric & Power BI Copilot, Copilot in Azure, Windows & consumer Copilot, extensibility & agents, Security Copilot, and GitHub Copilot, plus admin/security and cross-product decision guides. The daily monitor task adds a row here when it publishes or updates a doc. Browse the live KB at https://365-almanac.app/kb/copilot.
🆕 New & Updated
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | Updated: Researcher agent — federated Copilot connectors (MCP, read-only for Researcher) GA Sept 2026; Canva connector Oct 2026. |
| 2026-10-29 | Added Configuring remote MCP servers for Copilot plugins — the agentConnectors manifest route, the six authorization types and which are preview, static versus dynamic tool discovery, and why Cowork still needs the tool description file. |
| 2026-10-28 | Updated Skills in Declarative Agents — preview labels and Frontier wording dropped upstream; Information Barriers and Partner Center restrictions now the caveats to know. |
| 2026-10-23 | Added Declarative Agent Manifest Schema 1.9 — agent_skills and the Fabric capability; docs disagree on whether instructions is now optional. |
| 2026-10-22 | Added Connected Agents in Declarative Agents — worker_agents in the manifest; text-only hand-offs, routing driven by name, description and starters, and Adaptive Cards go to the calling agent, not the user. |
| 2026-10-17 | Added Agentic Governance with Power Platform Admin in Cowork (Public Preview) — asking governance questions in Cowork, scheduled briefings, credit cost and approval gates. |
| 2026-10-16 | Added Power Platform Admin Plugin for Copilot Cowork (Public Preview) — read-only Power Platform insight in Cowork; installing is separate from data access (needs an admin role) and from Cowork access itself. |
| 2026-10-16 | Added Copilot Studio Admin Rules: Knowledge Sources and Skills — environment and group rules for agent knowledge sources and skills; group settings flow down and can not be overridden, and the skills rule replaces virtual connectors. |
| 2026-10-14 | Added Work IQ MCP Retrieve Tool (Public Preview) — permission-trimmed grounding for your own agents; billing needs a Work IQ API spending policy, Dataverse and Power BI are not supported sources, and migrating from the Copilot Retrieval API is a rewrite, not an endpoint swap. |
| 2026-10-10 | Added Plugin and Agent Governance Controls: Which Control Hits Which Object — Governance controls by object — which admin surface governs agents, tools, connectors and connections; blocking a package doesn't revoke consent or credentials. |
| 2026-10-10 | Added Planning Data, Privacy and Security for Copilot Plugins — Planning data, privacy and security for plugins — data flow mapping, identity, consequential actions and governance outcomes. |
| 2026-10-08 | Updated: Agent Builder — Copilot connectors and (Frontier preview) skills as knowledge/capability, network endpoint, no Dataverse storage use, and the limits that bite: no Teams group/1:1 chats, no customer-managed keys, SharePoint auto-share only to security groups. Updated: Declarative agents — reframed as a plugin component alongside skills, connectors and MCP tools, with reuse-before-build and dependency-recording guidance. |
| 2026-10-07 | Updated: Extending M365 Copilot — options overview — now starts from where the experience lives (inside Copilot, or your own apps via Work IQ and Copilot APIs), with separate builder, admin and ISV paths. |
| 2026-10-06 | Added Building Copilot-Powered Apps with APIs — the host-it-yourself path using Work IQ and Microsoft 365 Copilot APIs; calling an API doesn't make a plugin or bring it under plugin governance. |
| 2026-10-06 | Added Choosing Development Tools for a Copilot Plugin — component-to-tool matrix and the Work IQ Dev Tools quickstart; the wiqd plugin tree is alpha, and you provision before you package. |
| 2026-10-06 | Added Administering Plugins and Agents: Lifecycle, Monitoring and Retirement — object-by-object administration, no single monitoring dashboard, updates re-enter package and test, and retirement leaves dependencies behind. |
| 2026-10-06 | Added Integrating and Testing Plugin Components — per-component integration checks, failure-path testing and the packaging readiness gate. |
| 2026-10-05 | Added Microsoft 365 Copilot Plugins — the wrapper that packages declarative agents, skills, connectors and MCP servers into one versioned, publishable unit. Publishing alone doesn't make a plugin usable, and MCP servers stay the owner's runtime. |
| 2026-10-05 | Added Packaging and Validating a Copilot Plugin — packaging routes per tool, and why the static wiqd plugin validate check says nothing about skill-only or connector-only plugins; deep validation is the real gate. |
| 2026-10-05 | Added Publishing a Copilot Plugin or Agent — org catalog, tenant sharing and Partner Center routes. There is no wiqd plugin publish, and public eligibility is separate from passing tests. |
| 2026-10-05 | Added Making Plugins and Agents Available to Users — the administrator's post-publish lifecycle and who acts next on each distribution route. |
| 2026-09-27 | Updated: Work IQ — extended in September 2026 to explicitly ground on Dynamics 365/Power Platform business data, not just M365 productivity data; the concrete piece (semantic models, business skills, governed actions) enters public preview 30 September 2026 in Sales and Customer Service first, with the developer surface documented as the new Dataverse Ask APIs. |
| 2026-09-22 | Added Line-of-Business MCP App Design — design patterns for MCP apps over Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP and the like, where every tenant's schema differs: four-layer responsibility split, the three downstream auth models and why shared credential destroys per-user permissions, two-call name-to-ID resolution, controlled-value mapping, and the N+1 relationship lookup that only bites at go-live. |
| 2026-09-16 | Updated: GitHub Copilot plans and pricing — AI credit mechanics: overage is metered at $0.01 per credit, Business/Enterprise credits pool across the enterprise rather than per user, and code completions and next edit suggestions aren't billed in credits at all on any paid plan. |
| 2026-09-05 | Added Custom Skills in Declarative Agents — packaged SKILL.md + scripts attached to a declarative agent, loaded on demand (Public Preview). |
| 2026-09-01 | Added Agent Builder Monitor Tab — per-agent usage metrics and user feedback (Engagement, Knowledge, Reactions, Comments) for agents built in Microsoft 365 Copilot. |
| 2026-07-15 | Widened to the full Copilot ecosystem — added Power Platform Copilot, Fabric & Power BI Copilot, Copilot in Azure and Windows & Consumer Copilot categories (14 docs); moved Power Apps and Power Automate Copilot into Power Platform. |
| 2026-07-15 | Added Security Copilot, GitHub Copilot and cross-product Decision & Selection Guides categories, plus Work IQ, agent mode in Office and A2A / multi-agent orchestration (18 docs). |
| 2026-07-14 | Initial backfill — 81 docs published across the first six categories from the batch-audit backlog. |
By category
| Category | Docs |
|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | 22 |
| Copilot Studio | 18 |
| Dynamics 365 Copilot | 12 |
| Extensibility & Agents | 23 |
| Admin & Adoption | 9 |
| Security & Compliance | 9 |
| Security Copilot | 5 |
| GitHub Copilot | 5 |
| Decision & Selection Guides | 5 |
| Power Platform Copilot | 4 |
| Fabric & Power BI Copilot | 5 |
| Copilot in Azure | 3 |
| Windows & Consumer Copilot | 4 |
| Total | 116 |
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