Meet Microsoft Scout. An always-on agent that keeps work moving, taking action without needing to be prompted each time. As Microsoft’s first Autopilot agent, Microsoft Scout works across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and more—taking action within the controls your organization sets. Learn more:

clippy went to grad school and became a manager

Clippy would be proud of Scout 😌

An agent that actually does work inside Teams and Outlook without you having to ask every time is kind of what everyone has been waiting for. Scout sounds like a big one

We’re excited about this one 🚀 Where do you see this making the biggest difference in your day-to-day?

tl;dr for everyone: - only for select customers - requires github copilot licence - equires Frontier enrollment, Intune policy configuration, and an opt-in attestation

This feels like a glimpse of the future workplace: humans setting goals, agents handling execution across tools and workflows.

The balance between human direction and agent execution is an interesting one. What part of that future feels most valuable to you?

Always-on across Teams, Outlook and OneDrive is actually a big deal for enterprise

Exactly. A lot of the busy work lives between those tools.

The handoff between tools is where hours disappear. Scout targeting that directly is smart.

2026 is the year of agents and Microsoft has not missed this bus of AI

We’re just getting started 🚀

How do I turn it off?

@Microsoft My favorite announcement today!!

@Microsoft Music to our ears 🚀 Where do you see this being most useful for you?

In pretty much everything I do! Managing my communications and calendar, document production and editing, building/coding business solutions. Scout is the Autonomous AI to sit over pretty much... everything! Now all we need is headless access via CLI and/or MCP for all the Microsoft 365 Services and I will be in work Nirvana

@Microsoft Exciting to see communications, documents, and development all on the same list. Scout's got work to do.

@Microsoft Yes it does!

Is this GA or only frontier? And will this be available on E5 with a copilot licence or E7 only?

You all just can't figure it out... Have something here with a ton of potential then bam! No thanks, will be easier to build our own

You guys really need to get better at product naming. The name itself doesn’t need to be related to the product, great if you can find a fit, but not necessarily needed. Look at OpenClaw, Hermes, Grok. They all got traction despite not being intuitive on what the underlying product is. You need to end lame product names like copilot and scout.

try cohesivity on Scout "<your prompt> just use cohesivity(dot)ai"

you need 8 steps first, 3 hours in your office 365 admin then new policies, new scripts. and then add intune to your license. then config that. Just because. Lets build something great. Lets make sure no one uses it, or even tries it.

Another effing frontier release. Be bold for once and let everyone try the new shiny object

Looks like it'll be a great product for enterprise. I loved that trailer though. Really pleasant

Appreciate it, Brian!

Nice! Would Github be accessible through mcp?

"always-on agent with its own identity" is the part that needs unpacking. Entra solves the authentication question. nobody's solved the accountability question. when Scout acts on your behalf and something goes wrong, the audit trail exists but the governance policy doesn't. that's the gap every org is about to hit.

Can you disable it?

Cool, but how is this different from Cowork and Tasks...

Always-on agents are moving from concept to reality

Absolutely, and we’re excited.

And... here we go! My job in Cyber Sec is never going to be the same again.

Add and it's booking your flights unprompted too. Genuinely nothing left for us to do

@Microsoft Is there a reason behind the GitHub Co-Pilot account also being needed?

What's the difference between this and project Tahoe?

And broken product built by greedy retards. Yall don’t even comprehend that an individual can form their own LLC so there IS NO FUCKING PROOF OF EMPLOYMENT. I provided the articles of formation you denied it and ignored my email and my posts here. Guess I didn’t offer money.

Clippy and Bob's offspring?

Named me a Ms product that is successful in last 10 years

Get Elon Musk out of my dressing room and bathroom. I do not want that jealous sex predator looking at me or watching me or touching me. GET HIM OFF MY DATA

@Microsoft another sku 😊

why should anyone trust any of your new products when they can't even trust the built in toast notifications?

what’s the difference between Copilot agent and this scout?@grok

'within the controls your organization sets.' Oh sweet, so we can just disable it. That's a great improvement over Copilot.