You can connect a Microsoft Foundry agent to Copilot Studio as an external agent, but there are two prerequisites that matter before the connection works reliably. Access to the agent created in Microsoft Foundry portal. Setting up the connection to the Project endpoint in Microsoft Foundry Prerequisites Before you add the agent in Copilot Studio, make sure you have the following: A Microsoft Foundry project with an existing agent. The project endpoint from Foundry.

After connecting a Microsoft Foundry agent to Copilot Studio, it may fail with a 400 error even though the connection itself looks correct. In my case, Copilot Studio returned this message: Error Message: The connector 'Azure AI Foundry Agent Service' returned an HTTP error with code 400. Inner Error: Agent imageanalyser endpoint does not support activity. Please update the agent endpoint to support this protocol. [Request ID: 2b48657361bf53a06e37ae96a2dcf789] Error Code: ConnectorRequestFailure Conversation Id: ad73179d-ccce-47b7-bd95-0054ff7c3cd7 Time (UTC): 2026-09-06T19:38:39.