Today, Microsoft announced additional capabilities for Microsoft Copilot Cowork, and Box AI features are coming soon. This milestone marks the next evolution in AI - moving from assistants that answer questions to agents that can autonomously execute multi-step tasks. By grounding these agents in Box, we are ensuring that the work they do is powered by your company’s most important, governed content.
Agentic AI needs a governed content layer
The single most important factor in the success of agentic AI is access to the source of truth. AI assistants are moving from “answer my question” to “do the work,” but they are only as useful as the enterprise content they have access to. By grounding Copilot Cowork in Box, we ensure that these agents are powered by the actual contracts, research, and data that run your business, cementing Box as the file system for AI.
Executing with precision via the Box plugin
The foundation of this integration is the Box plugin, a comprehensive solution that connects Copilot Cowork to your enterprise knowledge, that will soon be available in Copilot Cowork. This plugin eliminates the friction of AI adoption by allowing Microsoft’s latest innovations to work where your content already lives, fully wrapped in Box’s native protection.
As shown in the architecture diagram above, the Box plugin unifies the Box MCP server and specialized skills for advanced content analysis, automated file management, and intelligent discovery all within our core security and governance framework. This provides three critical benefits for the enterprise:
- Persistent Security: Copilot Cowork respects Box’s granular permissions and security classifications. The Box Plugin ensures that AI agents never bypass the safety guardrails you’ve already established.
- No migration required: You can leverage the power of Microsoft’s agentic AI while keeping your data firmly rooted in the platform built for content.
- Confidence for IT: Decision-makers can enable these tools knowing they won't quietly exfiltrate sensitive files or trip a compliance audit. Box remains the anchor for your content.
Putting Box and Copilot Cowork to work
By integrating Box directly into the Microsoft ecosystem, Copilot Cowork can now act as a digital teammate that spans your entire workspace. Whether you are in a meeting, an inbox, or a document, the agent can reach into Box to execute complex tasks without you ever leaving your Microsoft 365 application:
- Sales Operations: While drafting a client follow-up in Outlook, Copilot Cowork can pull specific pricing tables from a proposal stored in Box to ensure your quote is perfectly aligned with the latest approved version.
- Content Creation: While building a board-level presentation in PowerPoint, Copilot Cowork can scan your market intelligence folders in Box to find and summarize the three most relevant competitive threats from the last quarter.
- Legal Collaboration: During a project sync in Microsoft Teams, use Copilot Cowork to instantly verify if a specific vendor’s liability insurance stored in Box meets the requirements for a new high-risk task.
Get started today
The public preview of Microsoft Copilot Cowork marks a turning point in enterprise productivity. By bringing the Box plugin directly into this agentic experience, we are helping cement Box as the file-system for AI.
The Box MCP server is designed to work seamlessly with the tools your teams already use including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Cowork, Atlassian, Figma, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor — and coming soon for Salesforce Agentforce. To learn more about how to leverage the Box MCP server and to enable it for your organization, visit our documentation.
