Microsoft just flipped the switch on AI agents that actively participate in meetings, manage projects, and complete work on their own. Starting today, Microsoft 365 Copilot users can add these AI coworkers to any Teams meeting, channel, or community, where they'll work alongside humans to get things done.
Key Points:
- Facilitator agent runs your meetings—creates agendas, takes notes, assigns tasks, even drafts documents mentioned in discussion
- Every Teams channel and community gets its own specialized agent that becomes an expert on that specific project or topic
- Developers can delegate actual coding work to the GitHub agent, which writes code and manages pull requests autonomously
The standout is Facilitator, an agent that could change how you run meetings. Picture this: you join a Teams meeting and Facilitator is already there, having pulled the agenda from your meeting invite. As people talk, it's capturing decisions and action items in real-time—not just transcribing, but understanding who should do what and by when.
"Create a task to send the meeting summary to all attendees," someone says mid-conversation. Facilitator creates it, assigns it, sets the due date. No one stops talking. The task appears in Microsoft Planner, ready to track. When someone mentions needing a project proposal, Facilitator offers to draft it right then—and actually does, generating a first version in Word or Loop while the meeting continues.
The agent even keeps meetings on track with visual timeline showing topic progress and time remaining. Five minutes before time's up? You get a gentle nudge. It's like having the world's most organized project manager in every meeting, except this one never needs coffee breaks.
But meetings are just the beginning. Every Teams channel can now have its own agent that becomes the resident expert on that workstream. These channel agents adopt the channel's name—so your "Product Launch" channel gets a "Product Launch Agent" that knows everything discussed there. Ask it for a status update, and it pulls from conversations, shared files, meeting notes, and project plans to give you the real picture. No more scrolling through endless message threads trying to remember what was decided three weeks ago.
These agents can also draft your weekly status reports by pulling updates from channel conversations, meeting summaries, and task boards. They surface important deadlines buried in conversation threads. They answer questions like "What's our current budget status?" or "Who's responsible for the demo build?" with actual answers, not just search results.
The Viva Engage community agents can be even more proactive. When someone posts a question in your Sales Community that goes unanswered, the agent automatically drafts a response using information from community conversations and connected SharePoint sites. Community admins can let these responses post automatically or review them first. Approved answers get a "Verified" badge so everyone knows they're trustworthy.
For developers, the GitHub app for Teams lets you assign coding tasks to AI just like you'd assign them to a junior developer. Say "implement the login flow we discussed" and the agent opens a pull request, writes the code, and requests reviews. It understands your repository structure, your team's coding patterns, and your development process.
Behind all these agents sits the Knowledge Agent in SharePoint, quietly organizing everything. It tags documents, tracks updates, and connects related content across Teams channels, meetings, and communities. When you ask any Microsoft 365 Copilot question like "What's our approved positioning?" it knows exactly which document has the authoritative answer.
The practical impact is already showing up in early deployments. Microsoft says organizations using Teams with Copilot are seeing measurable improvements in productivity and decision-making. More importantly, employees using agents spend significantly less time on administrative tasks—nearly 40% less, according to industry research.
Starting today, Facilitator is generally available for anyone with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Channel agents and community agents are rolling out in public preview. The GitHub integration is in public preview for GitHub Copilot users. Task management and document creation features are also entering preview.
For IT departments wondering about control and security, Microsoft says that these agents respect existing permissions—they can only access what users can already see. Admins can control which users get access to which agents, monitor usage, and maintain security policies through the Power Platform admin center. SharePoint Advanced Management is included free for Copilot customers to help manage data governance.
For teams drowning in meetings, losing track of decisions, or spending hours on status reports, these AI teammates offer something concrete: less time on logistics, more time on actual work.