Create automated copilots triggered by events

Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Nov 18, 2024	Mar 24, 2025

Business value

With triggers, you can create fully autonomous agents that react to events such as a table update, a new document, or a newly received email instead of relying on end-user input. This activity feature enables you to track the agent's behavior, including which actions the agent calls and why. With this feature, you can create agents that work in the background to automate business processes for themselves or their team.

Feature details

Currently, user input triggers agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio. When an end user asks a question or sends a message, the copilot reviews a series of maker-defined topics and actions. It uses this information to respond appropriately to the end user.

When you add automated triggers to Copilot Studio, you enable an agent to run without any end-user input. The agent responds to events like an email arriving, a document being created, or a table row being updated. It follows the instructions you define for it.

We add an activity tab to the agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Use the activity tab to track each historical interaction with your agent. The activity tab records each time the agent triggers a topic or action as a conversation. You can drill into the interaction and review each action that the agent calls and why it calls the action. For this version of activity, the agent records only interactions with you.

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Additional resources

Event trigger overview (docs)