# Build Simple, Free & Powerful AI Agents in Microsoft Copilot – Tutorial + Tips | Microsoft Engineer

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Podcast: [Collaboration Simplified AI Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/collaboration-simplified-ai-podcast-7426078)
Published: 2025-12-14T02:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Now that every Microsoft 365 licensed business and enterprise comes with Copilot Chat, get ready to unlock the power of simple, free AI Agents — no heavy coding, no expensive tools. In this hands-on tutorial, Shervin Shaffie, a Copilot Principal Engineer at Microsoft, walks you through using Copilot Studio (Lite) to create your own agents that do real work in Microsoft 365. As a Microsoft engineer, he drops pro tips, best practices, and gotchas to speed you past frustration. ⏩ You can watch this Podcast as a video here: https://youtu.be/huOyZ_TxtJY This Podcast represents the opinions of Shervin Shaffie and his guests to the video and does not reflect the opinions of Microsoft, affiliates, or the companies with which this video's participants are affiliated with.

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