Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

Microsoft has made OneDrive agents generally available, allowing users to query multiple documents simultaneously through Copilot instead of just one at a time.

Users can select up to 20 files and create an agent, saved as a .agent file in OneDrive.

Rather than teasing information out of individual documents, Microsoft says users can make cross-document queries, including "What decisions have we made so far?" and "What risks keep coming up?" The agent then generates a response based on the documents' content.

Agents can be searched for and shared, although collaborators will need access to the source documents. Microsoft said: "The agent can provide complete, grounded responses keeping everyone aligned without extra handoffs."

However, the claim that getting started "requires no special admin setup," combined with the lack of detail about what the agents do behind the scenes or where user data ends up, is likely to worry administrators. That said ...