# Agent Control Pro - Get Started Guide

Agent Control Pro is a Microsoft 365 Copilot governance assistant for IT administrators. It helps you discover, classify, and govern every Copilot agent in your tenant, directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, through plain-English questions. Agent Control Pro is read-only. It surfaces ranked recommendations and answers governance questions; you decide and act in the native Microsoft 365 admin tools.

# Prerequisites

Active Microsoft 365 Copilot license (required)
Microsoft Agent 365 license for every user who calls Agent Control Pro through Microsoft 365 Copilot
Tenant administrator access (to grant admin consent and upload usage reports)
Ability to export the Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report from the Microsoft 365 admin center
Microsoft Graph delegated permissions: User.Read, CopilotSettings-LimitedMode.Read.All

# Installation & Access

Agent Control Pro is delivered as a Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agent backed by a remote MCP server. It is purchased through Microsoft AppSource and activated by a tenant administrator.

How to install Agent Control Pro:

Open the Agent Control Pro listing on Microsoft AppSource (Microsoft Commercial Marketplace)
Purchase the subscription as a tenant administrator
You will be redirected to the Agent Control Pro landing page; click Activate
Grant admin consent to the Agent Control Pro Entra application for your tenant
The Agent Control Pro agent becomes available in Microsoft 365 Copilot for authorized users in your tenant

How to access Agent Control Pro after install:

Open Microsoft 365 Copilot
Go to Copilot Agents
Select Agent Control Pro
Click a built-in conversation starter, or ask a freeform governance question

If Agent Control Pro does not appear, verify that the subscription is active and that admin consent has been granted in Microsoft Entra.

# Check your subscription status

After activation, your tenant's Agent Control Pro portal includes a Subscription status page that shows a live snapshot of your plan, sourced from the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace:

Current plan: the plan you purchased, the offer identifier, and when the subscription was last updated
State badge: Subscribed, Suspended, or Unsubscribed (a pending state is shown while activation is completing)
Trial countdown: if you are on a free trial, a Trial badge plus the trial end date and the number of days remaining
Subscription details: subscription ID, purchaser email, and creation date

Sign in with your Microsoft 365 administrator account to see the snapshot. If your tenant has no subscription yet, the page explains that the admin tools and the assistant are disabled until you purchase the offer on AppSource.

# Upload your first usage report

To unlock adoption-aware answers (top agents, active duplicates, org-wide candidates), upload your Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report. Without it, Agent Control Pro answers from catalog metadata alone and tells you the upload is required for adoption ranking.

Go to the Microsoft 365 admin center, then Reports, Usage, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agents
Export the report as CSV
Open your tenant's Agent Control Pro admin portal (linked from your Microsoft Marketplace subscription)
Sign in with your administrator account and upload the CSV

You will see a confirmation showing the upload timestamp and number of rows ingested. The latest upload replaces any previous one, so re-upload regularly to keep recommendations fresh.

To help you stay current, Agent Control Pro sends a reminder email to the subscription purchaser twice a month (the first and third Monday at 8:00 AM UTC). The email tells you how old your current usage report is, or that no report has been uploaded yet, and links you back to the upload page.

# Ask your first question

Open Agent Control Pro in Microsoft 365 Copilot and click any of the built-in conversation starters:

🗂️ Top Agent Builder agents: most-used agents authored in Agent Builder
🔍 Find overlapping agents: common themes and potential duplicates
⚠️ Active duplicates: agents serving the same purpose with users split between them
🔀 Consolidation candidates: shared-link agents ready to become single org-wide replacements
🌐 Org-wide candidates: shared agents with broad enough adoption (≥50 active users) for tenant-wide promotion
💤 Unused agents: dormant agents in the catalog with zero usage in the last 30 days

You can also ask freeform governance questions, e.g. "Which agents has the finance team built?", "Show me sideloaded agents older than six months", "Why did you flag this duplicate?"

Catalog answers render as an interactive Fluent 2 carousel of agent cards inside Copilot Chat; click any card to open that agent's detail view without typing a follow-up. Every answer closes with an "Acting on this in Microsoft Agent 365" section pointing you to the admin surface where you can act. See the Fundamentals overview for how the interactive results and follow-up prompts work.

# Use Agent Control Pro beyond Copilot Chat

Agent Control Pro is also registered as a host-agnostic agent connector, so the same catalog and usage tools are available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork and the Teams Channel Agent. In Cowork, ask "Give me a governance report on our Copilot agents" to get a full written governance report: inventory by build type, adoption highlights, duplicate findings, org-wide promotion candidates, retirement candidates, and prioritized recommendations.

# What Agent Control Pro does NOT do

It does not modify, retire, or delete agents. Every recommendation is read-only; you act in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
It does not read the content of Copilot conversations, prompts, or responses
It does not train any AI or machine-learning model on your data
It does not access another tenant's data. Every record is hard-isolated by tenant identifier.
It does not require per-user role configuration. Any authenticated administrator in a consented tenant sees the same governance view.

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