Learn six core capabilities organizations need to support agent adoption at scale in 2026, from governance and security to empowerment and operations.

In this edition of our monthly roundup, we’re highlighting a few of our biggest updates from Microsoft Ignite 2025 and walking through new capabilities available today.

Today we’re excited to bring OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Automated agent testing is now built into Copilot Studio—evaluate performance, improve quality, and scale confidently with Agent Evaluation.

For organizations that need deeper oversight and real-time control, a new feature is now in public preview: Advanced real-time protection during agent runtime for enhanced security.

Introducing a powerful new capability in Copilot Studio: automatic, intelligent decision-making steps you can build into multistage approval processes.

We are excited to share that agent publishing from Microsoft Copilot Studio to Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available.

MCP now includes a new set of features and enhancements that support more robust and scalable deployments: tool listing, enhanced tracing, and more.

Today, we’re bringing AI-powered building to employees across the organization, with new agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in the Frontier program: App Builder and Workflows. Using these agents and Copilot Studio, Copilot now enables employees to turn ideas into impact by creating apps, workflows, and agents.

Introducing the Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan (P3)—a flexible way for organizations to purchase Copilot Credits and scale their agent initiatives with confidence.