Today, we're looking at Copilot Cowork and moving
beyond prompts and chatbots into agentic workflows.
You can ask it on demand or schedule a long running
activity. It's built in collaboration with Anthropix
Cloud Cowork. It uses Microsoft's WorkIQ to access
your data and contacts. It leverages Microsoft's
security best practices. Copilot Cowork, here
we go. So you're looking at my Microsoft 365
Copilot app. You can then go to agentic. and
then click on all agents. What this does is it
puts you in the agent store and then all you
do is search for cowork and you should then be
able to see it. I'm gonna go ahead and select
add. On the left hand side here, you see that
Copilot cowork is there now. I can also pin it
and then if I get tired of it for some reason,
I can go ahead and uninstall it. i'm going to
pin it at the moment in the beginning here you
see this section that says what should we tackle
next and there's a very familiar area for you
to type in whatever you want and you can also
change the formatting you can use your voice
you can attach files and then we'll discover
what this is as well so this one is the model
sources and skills and when i select it Right
now I can either select Sonnet or Opus 4 .6.
Both of them are Anthropix cloud models. The
other thing is if I select this plus icon, I
can add work context. I can upload images from
my hard drive or from my OneDrive as well. Now
what I find interesting with adding work context
is that not only in this all section do I have
access to everything, but I can filter based
on people that I work with. files that I have,
meetings that I've attended, emails, chat messages,
channels, and SharePoint sites. But then there's
this section called skills, which is very cool
because what this does is it gives Copilot Cowork
skills to do things on your behalf. This is the
big difference between Cowork and any other tool
that we've had in the past. We kind of... have
a little bit of this going on with the workflows
agent that we did a video on, but that doesn't
have quite as many skills as this does. And the
architecture is also different. So this can read,
create, manipulate PDF documents, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, calendar management. daily briefings
meetings scheduling and communication and maybe
we'll add even more skills where you can add
your own skills in the future so that's to come
in the future so there's a skill section and
i do want to highlight that if i just went to
a regular new chat in copilot chat and i selected
the plus icon and adding work content you'll
see people and files and meetings and emails
and all this stuff but there's no skills so that's
one huge difference between Copilot, Cowork and
any other tool that we've had. Now, the other
thing that is just kind of good to know is as
always, you can just put in the slash command
and then it brings up all these different menu
items. And I noticed if I select PDF, there's
actually a shortcut for it. Or if I select slash
and skills and go to calendar. there's quicker
ways of kind of letting copilot co -work know
that this is what you want to actually use but
what i've also found is you don't actually need
to do the slash command it just figures out what
it needs to use when so that's actually pretty
cool now the other section here is it says get
to work and there are actually four really cool
examples that i encourage you to try out on your
own we'll look at one of them and then finally
this other section here is this tasks section
which if you have a bunch you can just go ahead
and see all and there's a couple that i've run
recently so if there's something that you've
done in the past the history shows up and if
there's stuff that needs your attention or it's
ongoing it also shows up here so instead of showing
done it'll give you a different message all right
so that's what it looks like now let's kind of
test it out i found that if i select organize
my inbox you'll see all the messages here right
and one of the things you can always do is you
can massage these and change them so this one
says for the last 24 hours it's looking at all
your emails you can say the last 30 days you
can do whatever you want it's totally up to you
now if i select organize my week is actually
super cool the only change that i'll make here
is that i'm going to specify albert einstein
albert is my boss so I'll put that in there because
Albert is critical he's my boss and with that
we're just gonna go ahead and send this off and
see what happened one of the first things you'll
notice is that first of all you can show more
and see the entire prompt next you'll see that
it is thinking and as you expand it out this
thinking process you can see a little bit more
details about what it's doing you might have
noticed that on the right hand side this detail
section just popped up and you can see this progress
of gathering contacts scanning my calendar and
notice this section here on the skills it's decided
that it's going to use this calendar management
skill automatically so like i said you don't
have to put slash and call out the skill it just
figures it out so right now it's going through
and looking at my calendar and see what it comes
back with next By the way, I wanted to mention
that at any point in time, you can select stop
and then redirect it by typing in a different
prompt. The other thing you can always do is
you can leave, right? So don't feel like you're
stuck on this page. You can leave, you can minimize
the screen, you can go do something else, maybe
use a researcher agent. It doesn't matter where
you are in the app or if you minimize it and
go away and come back. It's a cloud -based app.
So now that you gave it that command, it's going
to do its thing once you've left all you do is
you select co -work again and it takes you to
this main screen and notice that right now something
is in progress which is our calendar review so
now i'm going to select it and it'll just drop
me back into where it is at the moment now in
this section below you see these cards pop up
and it says that before i propose any changes
i have a few questions the first question is
that because next week i'm doing this twins reunion
or at least arnold is for wednesday to friday
it says are you fully out or partially out or
is it just a reminder that you're still actually
working so i'm going to say i'm partially out
i'm going to select next the second question
is there's a meeting that i have tuesday that
it ends at 8 p .m and it says should i flag it
as too long it's a crunch week just keep it or
move it to another day and i'm going to say flag
it it's too long next question is what is this
week's goal and i'm going to select ship a deliverable
And then finally management styles, it gives
you some options. You can also describe your
own and I'm just going to select trim and optimize
over here and select next. So with that feedback,
if you notice what Copilot Cowork just did is
it. looks at everything it analyzes it it uses
different skills if it needs help then it'll
ask you for your input then it goes back to work
all right so it came back with some proposed
changes ranked by impact so you can see it has
highest impact high impact medium impact and
so on this first one is to shorten tuesday's
meeting and take it from five hours to three
hours and it's telling me why it's good to do
that then it's saying that there's a missing
meeting with albert and it has albert's information
here so it wants to fix that for me and then
it wants to protect the real lunch break for
me on tuesday which is medium impact and then
there's some kind of a mystery meeting on my
calendar which is no subject 6 a .m which is
actually over here now if everything looks okay
you can just tell it to execute and by the way
if you notice it already has like the text that
you should type it and all you got to do is you
select tab and then it just fills it in so if
everything looks good let's just go ahead and
send it and now it's going to do its magic which
is this integration to my calendar and teams
and meetings and execute everything that it said
it would for me now when it needs to take actions
and it gives you these boxes over here and it
wants to actually change this meeting this risk
and safety And if it looks okay, then you have
to select this blue box to update the event.
And then it's having me create a meeting with
Albert, a Teams meeting from 9 to 9 .30. I'm
just going to select Create. Now it came back
with a summary and it said that it made this
meeting shorter, 3 to 6. And it created a one
-on -one meeting with me and Albert. You can
see how it's reorganizing everything based on
your priorities. And if we go back to my calendar
now, this meeting one -on -one with Albert, if
I open it up, you can actually see that there's
a Teams meeting and Albert's on the invite. So
it took care of that for me. Now, just kind of
going off on a tangent, I'm telling it that for
my 9 a .m. with Albert, Albert had some feedback
on my document that I'm going to attach here.
And can you look at his feedback and help me
fix it? So I'm going to go ahead and select this
plus. And I'm going to go to attaching my cloud
files. And then here's my magic carpet redesign
document that I'm going to select. And I'm going
to send this off. And you can see that it's actually
using another skill over here. It's using this
Word document skill. All right. So the document
is updated and it's ready. And here's a summary
of all the changes that it did around water resistance
and waterproofing. And then this is the file
and where it's saved. You can also see on the
right hand side that this was the initial file,
the input and then the output folder version
two. So I can just simply select it and it'll
show to me in here or I can actually go to the
folder. And then here's a section on the weather
resistant and waterproofing that it added. And
then also I can just go ahead and X this. I'm
just going to ask it to create a PowerPoint of
the document to kind of showcase that. So I'm
saying, can you create a PowerPoint of that document?
Just five slides. And that, by the way, should
invoke another skill, which is that PowerPoint
skill. And so there it is. You can basically
see that it's got this skill here and it added
the PowerPoint skill. All right. So it's finished
making the presentation and it says it's ready
and it's right there. And it's giving me a summary
of these five slides. And let's just go ahead
and select it and take a look at it. Again, you
can either open it inside Copilot Cowork or you
can select these three dots and download it,
open it in PowerPoint or open the location inside
OneDrive. So this is what it looks like. Let
me close the details here so we can have a look
at it. The first slide was Advanced Flying Magic
Carpet, AI Adaptive Flight System, Integrated
Fabric, the Clean Energy Architecture and Passenger
Safety Roadmap. So pretty cool looking slides.
And we'll just wrap by saying, look, You have
created this entire flow where you're analyzing
your Outlook calendar and it's making suggestions
based on your intent of what's important, asking
you questions, making changes to your calendar,
shrinking meetings, adding teams, adding invitations,
and then you can kind of take it off on a tangent
and say... create a document based on the emails,
create a PowerPoint. And then finally, what I'll
do here, just to kind of keep it going, I'll
say something like, every day, check to see if
I have communication from Albert about this project
and notify on Teams about suggested next steps
as soon as you can. So then this takes it from
being chat oriented, action oriented. to the
autonomous capabilities of it always living there
in the background, monitoring, giving you suggestions,
taking actions and so on. And it came back and
it said that every morning at 8 a .m. my time,
it's gonna run, it's gonna scan my emails and
Teams, anything new about the magic carpet from
Albert. And if he's reached out, he's gonna post
a Teams message. Over here, we're just gonna
go ahead and activate and run and just select
that. And now this, is a scheduled activity from
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