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Copilot Studio's New Harness: 15–21% Lower Costs, Big Gains on Specific Tests

Original sourceAI Matter

Summary

Microsoft unveiled a new agent harness for Copilot Studio that runs models in a secure container with command-line and file tools, forming a single-loop workflow that can handle large on-disk data and process it step by step. Compared with the standard chat-centric harness where model calls are iso…

Key points

  • Helps teams evaluating Copilot Studio agent architecture understand the trade-off between cost and fault tolerance.
  • Harness design directly determines agent cost and failure recovery, a key engineering choice for enterprise agent adoption.
  • Enterprises can run data-intensive agent workflows at lower token cost, but performance gains are vendor self-reported and should be verified before adoption.

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