Microsoft Unveils Scout, Its First Autonomous Agent

On June 2, 2026 (local time), at Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Scout, an always-on personal AI agent for Microsoft 365. As the company's first agent in the new "Autopilot" category, it integrates with Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint and more, and acts autonomously without needing to be prompted each time.

According to the announcement, Scout understands a user's workflow and operates "always-on" within the policies and permissions of the organization. Going a step beyond the prior chat-style Microsoft 365 Copilot, it is positioned as part of a new category called "Autopilots" that emphasizes "follow-through"—pursuing a request through to completion. Details are described in the official blog and the Learn documentation.

Technically, Scout is built on OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework, and constructs personal and organizational context through Work IQ, the intelligence layer of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Each Autopilot has its own identity in Entra ID and operates autonomously. Computerworld described it as the first Autopilot to bring OpenClaw to the enterprise and as one of the highlights of Build 2026. The Verge also noted its reliance on the framework.