Copilot Plugins: What They Are and Where They Run
Microsoft 365 Copilot plugins only work as actions inside declarative agents, not in Copilot itself. What they connect to, how they resolve tools, the caps.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot plugins only work as actions inside declarative agents, not in Copilot itself. What they connect to, how they resolve tools, the caps.
Microsoft's official Asana Copilot connector is read-only grounding; turning Copilot conversations into Asana tasks runs through the separate Asana agent in the Agent Store.
Box ships two official Microsoft 365 Copilot integrations — the Box AI Agent and the Box Connector for Microsoft Graph — but both are read-only grounding, with no write-back and no triggers.
Microsoft's official Confluence Cloud Copilot connector is read-only grounding — it indexes pages, blogs, and attachments into Microsoft Search but never writes back to Confluence.
Microsoft's official Google Drive Copilot connector is read-only — it indexes Drive files for grounding and search but can't write anything back to Drive.
Both official paths — Microsoft's HubSpot federated Copilot connector and HubSpot's own Agent for Copilot — are read-only; neither can create or edit HubSpot records.
Microsoft's official Jira Cloud Copilot connector is read-only grounding; writing to Jira only happens through Atlassian's Teams plugin, inside a chat you drive.
Microsoft ships an official Notion federated Copilot connector built on MCP, but it's read-only — it grounds answers in your Notion pages and databases live at prompt time and can't write anything back.
Microsoft's official Salesforce CRM Copilot connector is read-only grounding; write-back to Salesforce only exists through the separately licensed Sales agent.
Microsoft's three official ServiceNow Copilot connectors are read-only grounding; creating or updating tickets only happens through a Copilot Studio agent you build yourself.
Microsoft's two official Zendesk Copilot connectors are read-only grounding; the separate Zendesk-built agent can create, comment on, and resolve your own tickets — but only in a session you drive.
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