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Copilot Cowork

A new way of working — Cowork coordinates tasks, brings in agents, and works with you and your team in real time.

Personal AI assistant

Cowork is your personal assistant inside Microsoft 365 — it works across your email, documents, calendar, and Teams as an extension of you.

Scheduled actions

Schedule tasks in Cowork ahead of time — recurring or one-off. Cowork runs them at the right moment and delivers the result back to you.

Office artifacts

Cowork produces complete documents, presentations, and spreadsheets — from the first idea to the final version.

Ready-made prompts for Cowork

You don’t have to start from an empty box. There are two options; they differ in how the prompt gets into Cowork.

Microsoft scenariosone click

  • 8 scenarios from the Microsoft Prompt Gallery, further down this page.
  • The button opens Cowork under your work account with the prompt already filled in.
  • Microsoft stores the prompt and the link only points to it, so it can’t be changed or replaced with your own text.
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Our scenarioscopy and paste

  • 30 prompts by area of work: leadership, sales, marketing, customer service, finance, HR and IT.
  • Written for ai-news.cz, in English and Czech.
  • More detailed: Cowork asks for approval before sending anything, cites its sources, and some prompts run on a schedule.
  • Copy a prompt, fill in the details in square brackets and paste it into Cowork.
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Microsoft scenarios

You fill in details such as the customer name or the topic in Cowork. Cowork is billed in Copilot Credits. How they work and how to control costs.

Morning brief

Builds your briefing for the day: today's and tomorrow's calendar with conflicts and meetings that need preparation flagged, plus what else deserves your attention.

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Customer meeting briefing

Pulls together every relevant signal for an upcoming customer meeting, such as recent email with the account, and turns it into a briefing. You fill in the customer name.

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Meeting recap and follow-through

Uses the transcript of a finished meeting to summarise key points, decisions and action items, and builds the follow-up material. Works in stages that you confirm.

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Project status dashboard

Builds an interactive dashboard showing the current health of a project or initiative, based on related email, meetings and chats.

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Company research

Builds a concise research package on a company and its competitive position, starting from its latest annual report.

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Topic synthesis

Searches your email and Teams from the last six months and produces a fast, opinionated synthesis of a topic.

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Personal voice skill

Reviews a sample of your sent email, describes the recurring traits of your communication style and turns them into a skill Cowork can reuse.

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Out-of-office handover pack

Before a holiday or longer absence, builds a comprehensive handover pack. You fill in how long you will be away and when.

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Source: Microsoft Copilot Prompt Gallery, list checked 21 October 2026. adoption.microsoft.com

Resources and documentation

Videos

Selected videos on Copilot Cowork — from official Microsoft demos to community walkthroughs.

Cowork Skills

An overview of skills Cowork can run. Each skill is a SKILL.md file — you can preview it, copy it, or download it.

analysis

document-comparator

Compares two versions of a document (contracts, policies, NDAs, SOWs) and produces a detailed redline report. Identifies added, deleted, and modified passages, assesses impact, and flags risky clauses (financial terms, liability, SLAs, termination conditions).

How to invoke in Cowork:

💡 The most reliable way is to call the skill by name — e.g. "use document-comparator…". The router will run the skill for sure, regardless of how you phrase the rest. The phrases below are alternative triggers the router also recognizes:

"compare documents""diff these contracts""what changed between v1 and v2""produce a redline""track-changes report""compare draft and final"
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analysis

sales-pipeline-analyst

Analyzes a sales pipeline from Excel or a CRM export, scores deals, evaluates risk (slipping deals, coverage ratio, concentration) and generates an Excel report plus a QBR PowerPoint deck. Ideal for quarterly business review prep, forecasting, and pipeline-health analysis.

How to invoke in Cowork:

💡 The most reliable way is to call the skill by name — e.g. "use sales-pipeline-analyst…". The router will run the skill for sure, regardless of how you phrase the rest. The phrases below are alternative triggers the router also recognizes:

"analyze sales pipeline""pipeline health""deal scoring""slipping deals""coverage ratio""forecast accuracy""QBR prep""quarterly business review""revenue projections"
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productivity

meeting-notes-processor

Turns a Teams meeting transcript into structured notes — key decisions, action items with owners and due dates, discussion topics, and open questions. Saves the notes as a Word document in SharePoint/OneDrive and emails them to every meeting attendee. Great for standups, project meetings, and strategic discussions.

How to invoke in Cowork:

💡 The most reliable way is to call the skill by name — e.g. "use meeting-notes-processor…". The router will run the skill for sure, regardless of how you phrase the rest. The phrases below are alternative triggers the router also recognizes:

"process meeting transcript""create meeting notes from transcript""summarize the meeting and send notes""write up meeting notes""send meeting summary to attendees""process today's standup""create and distribute meeting minutes"
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