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In February 2023, Yusuf Mehdi introduced the Copilot sidebar for Edge—a context-aware assistant sitting alongside your browser
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Then at Build 2025, GitHub Copilot became a fully autonomous coding agent.
Key facts
- In February 2023, Yusuf Mehdi introduced the Copilot sidebar for Edge—a context-aware assistant sitting alongside your browser, aware of what you were reading
- According to Microsoft, Fortune 500 organizations average over 600 terabytes of this data
- Scout lives inside Microsoft 365, which means it lands on the desks of people who have never heard of (or cared about) OpenClaw, haven't opened a terminal in their lives, and want their 2 p.m
- The Work IQ API helps developers build agents that go beyond data—understanding context, intent, and organizational signals
Summary
Scout runs on OpenClaw, the open-source agent framework that hit 180,000 GitHub stars three months after its January 2026 launch. Copilot isn’t enough. 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… pic.twitter.com/YqeDABRHAy. — Microsoft 365 June 2, 2026.