Agent vs. Copilot vs. flow

Deploy Agents on Microsoft: Copilot Studio, Fabric & Power Platform — lesson 2 of 20 (DEFINITION)

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the assistant Microsoft ships. An agent is your version: scoped instructions, your knowledge, your actions. A Power Automate flow is deterministic automation an agent calls. Most real deployments use all three together.

Source: Microsoft Learn — Agents in Copilot Studio

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