Question

A team lead with no coding background wants to build a lightweight custom agent that answers questions from a specific SharePoint document library, and they want to create it directly from within the Microsoft 365 Copilot experience without opening a separate development tool. As the administrator advising them, which approach should you recommend for the simplest way to create this agent?

Accepted Answer

Use the Copilot Agent Builder from within Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to create a declarative agent grounded on the document library

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Use Copilot Studio's full authoring canvas to build a topic-based conversational flow from scratch

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Register the agent as an enterprise application in Microsoft Entra ID and grant it Graph API permissions

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Deploy a pay-as-you-go SharePoint agent by enabling billing at the tenant level for all users