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Persistent agent
Autopilot
Microsoft's always-on work agent, formerly Microsoft Scout, with its own Entra identity, memory and computer, that you @mention in Teams and Outlook and that runs heartbeat check-ins and scheduled or condition-triggered automations across Microsoft 365, local files, the shell and a browser.
- Maker
- Microsoft
- Status
- Beta
- Launched
- 2 Jun 2026
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Preview only: requires Microsoft's Frontier program and, per the Scout docs, a GitHub Copilot Business or Enterprise seat; Microsoft says Autopilot runs on Copilot usage-based billing
- Repository
- —
Capabilities
- memory
- heartbeat
- scheduled tasks
- triggers
- browser
- calendar
- code execution
- files
- multi-agent
- own email address
Surfaces
- windows
- macos
- teams
Plugs into
- mcp
- skills
- apps/connectors
Runs on
- GitHub Copilot model catalog (Microsoft and third-party models)
Sources
- https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/09/25/introducing-the-new-copilot-with-home-code-and-autopilot/
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-scout/overview
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-scout/faq