Microsoft 365 Agents Explained - Declarative, Copilot Studio, Pro-Code or Skills in Copilot Cowork?

Microsoft 365 Agents Explained - Declarative, Copilot Studio, Pro-Code or Skills in Copilot Cowork?

From Microsoft Teams Insider by Tom Arbuthnot

May 12, 2026 · 39 min

About this episode

Graham Hosking discusses the evolution of agentic AI and its applications in Microsoft 365, including Copilot Skills and Cowork.

Graham Hosking, Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, discusses Copilot Skills, Cowork, and the rapidly evolving world of agentic AI across the Microsoft stack. • How businesses are navigating AI adoption and why there is no silver bullet for enterprise AI • What Copilot Cowork is and how it takes Microsoft 365 Copilot to the next level with multi-threaded task automation • Skills as reusable blocks of instructions that simplify complex business processes like RFPs without needing mul...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Arbuthnot

Guest: Graham Hosking

Topics covered

  • AI adoption
  • agentic AI
  • task automation
  • business processes
  • Microsoft 365

Keywords

  • AI
  • Microsoft 365
  • Copilot
  • automation
  • business processes
  • skills
  • RFPs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Skills, Copilot Cowork

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