Back in August 2025, Microsoft announced Surveys Agent, an AI product under its Microsoft 365 Copilot umbrella. As the company continues towards achieving its AI ambitions, it has seemingly decided to streamline its offerings in the area, by killing off Surveys Agent, almost exactly a year after release.
Surveys Agent was accessible to Frontier customers via the Microsoft 365 Copilot interface where they could utilize natural language prompts to manage surveys end-to-end. They could create surveys, refine them, send them to specific people, remind participants to fill the survey, and export results directly into Excel for more detailed analysis.
However, as we learned a couple of days ago, Microsoft has begun integrating most, if not all, of these capabilities directly into Forms where users can leverage the same interface via the floating Copilot Dynamic Action Button (DAB). This essentially makes Surveys Agent redundant, so it"s not surprising that Microsoft has decided to retire the product.
As stated in MC1421920 in the Message Center, Surveys Agent will be removed from the Agent Store on August 31, 2026. Users will still be able to access their previous history with the AI service directly in Microsoft 365 Copilot and the forms created using this agent will continue to remain accessible too. Users who attempt to access Surveys Agent will be redirected to the unified Forms experience powered by Copilot, accessible through the DAB.
Microsoft has emphasized that no additional licensing is required and that Forms users can seamlessly access the same capabilities directly via the integrated Copilot experience. This feature is enabled by default and no configuration from IT admins will be required.
It makes sense that Microsoft has unified the functionalities of the agent in Copilot, because the disparate branding might have been too confusing for some customers. Now, it"s much simpler to understand that if you want to create forms, you should directly navigate to Microsoft Forms, regardless of whether you want to leverage Copilot AI or not.