Question

You are designing a Copilot Studio agent for a manufacturing client. The agent must query a proprietary, on-premises inventory management system that exposes a set of tools and structured data through a standardized server the vendor already maintains. The client wants to avoid building and maintaining custom connector schemas for each individual API call, and wants the agent to dynamically discover the available tools at runtime rather than hard-coding them. Which extensibility approach should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Integrate the inventory system by adding a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server as a tool in the Copilot Studio agent

Answer

Build a custom connector in Power Platform for each inventory API endpoint and add them as actions

Answer

Enable Computer Use so the agent visually navigates the inventory system's desktop UI

Answer

Create prompt actions that embed the inventory data directly into the system prompt of the agent