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Scale Your Productivity by Delegating Repetitive Tasks to Copilot Agents
Automate repetitive workflows using specialized multi-step AI agents.
Identify recurring task sequences and use Copilot Agents to execute these multi-step actions automatically across your business data.
Microsoft Copilot
The Scenario
You find yourself doing the same sequence of tasks every Friday, like gathering data from three spreadsheets and sending an update chat to your team.
Before & after
The old way
Manually repeating multi-step data entry or status updates across different apps every week can consume 2–3 hours of administrative time.
With AI
Deploying a pre-built or simplified custom agent can automate these multi-step sequences in about 10–15 minutes of setup.
The Prompt
Act as an agent to help me automate my [DESCRIBE_WORKFLOW, e.g., weekly status reporting]. What information do you need from my files and emails to get started?
Agents extend Copilot's capability from simple chat to active automation, handling repetitive sequences without manual intervention.
Source
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Adoption"Agents are specialized AI assistants that extend Copilot to complete work by automating repetitive tasks and executing multi-step actions."