If you are not using these TWO Copilot Agents YOU ARE WORKING TOO SLOW

Alright, these are the two ways that you can create agents in Microsoft Copilot. The first one is easy, the second one is much more powerful. But if you are not using agents on a daily basis, you are working too slow. What is an agent? It's basically just a chatbot that has the ability to call tools. For example, your Outlook, your OneDrive, or your SharePoint. Now, not only does it have the ability to call tools, but it also has predefined instructions. So think of it as a new employee that you've given a bunch of instructions to learn how to do its job. Agents are really helpful for repeatable workflows. So if you're doing something on a weekly or daily basis, you should probably be creating an agent. Before I get into the two types of agents, save this video for later because you're gonna want to come back to it. And if you find this video helpful, give me a follow. First, the first type of agent, you can create directly in Copilot. I usually do it on the web version, come up to office.com, it'll take you to Copilot, go into the agent store, press "Create Agent". From there, you're gonna describe in detail what you want your agent to do, and make sure to give it as much context as possible. Once you do that, it's gonna preset instructions for you, so you don't have to fill this out. A name, and then you need to add your knowledge sources. You can also give it the capabilities to create documents, charts, and code, analyze data, graph math equations, and create code snippets, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Create images, visual ads like images and art in response to user prompts. So if you want an agent to help you create PowerPoint presentations or Word documents, you can do that. You can connect in your knowledge sources. For example, a data file that you use with sales data. This is the easy way to create an agent, and it's limited in the amount of tools that it can call. It can really only call your internal Microsoft tools. For example, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive. Now, if you want an advanced agent that can literally do things like respond to your emails, this is how you build it. The second way, you need to go to Copilot Studio. It's a different platform. You need to go to copilotstudio.microsoft.com. It's a little similar, but very different. It's gonna look the same in the sense that you start by describing what you want your agent to do. The difference with Copilot agents, which you can actually choose what model it's using. Now, I don't have access to Claude models at work, but if you do, you can use Claude or you can use any of the GPT models. I'm not gonna be able to get into all the different settings on a Studio agent because they're quite complex, but the biggest difference is the amount of tools that you have access to adding on a Studio agent versus a regular agent. For example, you have access to connecting in many different MCP servers, you can create custom prompts, or you can connect in specific workflows. If you've ever used Zapier or Microsoft's Power Automate, it's very similar. You can connect in specific workflows that will trigger whole automation. If you want more real-life examples on how you can build workflow automations using Copilot Studio, comment "workflow".