Microsoft 365 Copilot | Scoped knowledge support for declarative agents in VIP connectors

Introduction

Scoped knowledge is now supported in declarative agents (DA) for VIP connectors such as Azure DevOps (ADO) Work Items, Jira, and Confluence. This enhancement enables organizations to define precise boundaries for agent-accessible information, improving relevance, reducing noise, and aligning with organizational policies and user permissions.

This feature is available to tenants with a Microsoft 365 E5 license.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in late August 2025 and expect to complete by early September 2025.

Once configured, scoped knowledge allows users to prompt Copilot with more personalized queries. This is especially useful for creating targeted agents tied to specific repositories or locations, helping reduce irrelevant results and improving agent performance. This helps you create agents that are scoped to your team's knowledge, enabling more personalized responses to queries.

Tenants without Microsoft 365 E5 will not have access to this feature unless they upgrade.

What you can do to prepare

To configure scoped knowledge in declarative agents:

1. Under Choose other data sources, select the connector tile (such as Jira, Confluence).
2. Add relevant connections.
3. Return to the Knowledge main menu.
4. Select a scoping attribute (such as Project, Space, Folder).
5. Search or type the attribute name and add the desired scope.

Screenshot - Scoped knowledge configuration options in declarative agents for VIP connectors:

Learn more: Add knowledge sources to your declarative agent by using agent builder | Extensibility | Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft Learn

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