If you’ve ever wanted AI to understand an entire project, not just a single document, you’ll appreciate this…
Something called Copilot Agents has been introduced in OneDrive.
And this is something that makes AI much more useful for real day-to-day work.
Usually when you ask AI to summarise or analyse something, you need to do it one file at a time.
But projects don’t tend to live in just one file.
There are multiple references for proposals, meeting notes, budgets, timelines, research documents, and email summaries.
These new OneDrive Agents allow you to select up to 20 files and group them together under one .agent file.
Instead of getting a summary for one file at a time.
You can ask: “What deadlines are coming up across this whole project?”
“Where are the risks?”
“What did we agree in the last three meetings?”
And it draws on the context of all the selected files, rather than just a single document.
The agent behaves like other AI tools but has the benefit of answering questions from a broader understanding.
These agents are also saved as files within OneDrive.
This means colleagues don’t need to recreate or set these up themselves. Instead, the .agent files can be shared to give all a uniform AI “view” of the project.
You can also add and remove files or refine the instructions it uses as projects evolve.
That way it stays updated and aligned with the latest information.
Currently, this feature is available to Microsoft 365 Copilot users who access OneDrive on the web.
It’s still in the early stages and evolving. Microsoft is asking for feedback and taking notes on how businesses use it.
The true value of this update is the saving in time when sifting through information spread across multiple files.
It allows you to quickly get a full understanding of a whole project with the help of AI. That’s a meaningful boost to productivity.
🤔 The question is, would you trust an AI agent to interpret multiple important documents at once, or would you still prefer to read everything yourself?
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