The 14 Best Microsoft Copilot Cowork Plugins for Work (2026)

Copilot Cowork is Microsoft's agentic feature for multi-step work inside Microsoft 365. Plugins are how it reaches the tools your team uses outside Microsoft's own apps. Skills teach Cowork domain expertise, while connectors link it to external data and services so it can read and act on information outside Microsoft 365. A single plugin can include either or both. Microsoft announced worldwide general availability of Cowork in June 2026, and the catalog has grown quickly since. Microsoft's official plugin page now lists well over a hundred partner plugins, ranging from project management to legal research to hiking trails. This guide narrows that list to the fifteen most useful for everyday work productivity.

How we ranked them

We scored each plugin on four criteria:

• Breadth: How many roles and teams benefit, rather than a single department.
• Maturity: Whether it is Microsoft-built or generally available, or newer and less proven.
• Friction and cost: How many setup steps and extra subscriptions it requires.
• Evidence: How well its capabilities are documented by Microsoft and other independent sources, not only vendor marketing.

A few conditions apply to every plugin on this list. Cowork requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and is billed by usage in Copilot Credits. Partner plugins require your IT admin to make them available before you can add them, and the first time you use one, Cowork prompts you to sign in to the service and authorize the connection. Most partner plugins also need an account, and often a paid plan, with the underlying service.

The Best Plugins for Microsoft Copilot Cowork

1. Fabric IQ

Fabric IQ is Microsoft's own plugin for connecting Cowork to Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. It lets Cowork query datasets, generate reports, and access business intelligence insights across your Fabric workspace. In practice, you can ask Cowork to pull figures from an existing dataset and work them into a document or deck. You no longer have to export numbers by hand and paste them across apps. It ranks first because it is Microsoft-built, part of the generally available release, and useful to nearly anyone who reports on data, from finance to operations to team leads preparing reviews. It also avoids the separate vendor sign-up most partner plugins need.

Limitations: It only helps organizations whose data already lives in Fabric or Power BI. Output quality depends on how well your datasets are modeled and permissioned. Figures Cowork pulls into a draft should still be checked against the source report before they circulate.

2. Zapier MCP

Zapier's plugin lets Cowork automate workflows across more than 8,000 apps and 30,000 tools without code. That reach is why it ranks so high. For any app your team relies on that doesn't have its own Cowork plugin, Zapier is often the fastest way to connect it. A typical use is having Cowork finish a task, such as drafting a summary or compiling a list, and then hand the result to a Zapier action that posts, files or logs it elsewhere. For teams already using Zapier, the plugin extends existing automations instead of requiring new ones. The plugin matters most for operations, marketing and administrative work, where tasks tend to span many small tools.

Limitations: It requires a Zapier account, and heavier use will likely need a paid plan. Because it can touch thousands of apps, it also broadens where your organization's data can travel. IT and security teams should review which connections are enabled. Each action adds a layer between Cowork and the destination app, which can make troubleshooting harder.

3. Fellow

Fellow is an AI meeting assistant and notetaker with a Copilot Cowork plugin. The Fellow.ai For Copilot plugin is a way to look up AI meeting notes and insights directly from Copilot. Once Fellow and Copilot are connected, Copilot can search past meetings, pull AI summaries and speaker-attributed transcripts, and track action items. It can then combine that meeting context with your inbox, Teams chats, and SharePoint files. Per Fellow, a key difference from Microsoft's native meeting recaps is coverage beyond Teams: Zoom calls, Google Meet sessions, in-person meetings, and botless recordings from Fellow's desktop app are all included. Fellow also says Microsoft selected it for the Copilot Cowork partnership program. Meeting context applies to almost every role, which is why it ranks in the top half.

Limitations: It requires a Fellow account, which is a separate subscription. Setup takes two admins. A Fellow workspace admin must turn on the MCP connection, and a Microsoft 365 admin may need to approve or deploy the plugin. Organizations that meet only in Teams may find it overlaps with Microsoft's built-in recaps.

4. monday.com

Microsoft's catalog describes monday.com's plugin as bringing the company's AI-powered work-management platform into Microsoft 365 Copilot. monday.com was among the first third-party partners Microsoft named for Cowork, alongside LSEG, Miro and S&P Global Energy, so it has been in the ecosystem since early in the program. For teams that plan and track work in monday.com, the plugin lets Cowork work with that project data alongside email, files and chats in Microsoft 365. A common use is asking Cowork to build a status update or review that draws on both project boards and recent documents. Its audience overlaps with Asana's, which is why the two rank next to each other.

Limitations: It requires a monday.com account. Its value depends on how much of your team's work is actually tracked there, and boards that aren't kept current will give Cowork stale information. Organizations that use both monday.com and another project tool will likely want to standardize on one plugin to avoid scattering tasks.

5. Notion

Notion's plugin lets Cowork search your docs, wikis, notes, tasks, and databases. Many teams keep processes, meeting notes, specs and internal documentation in Notion, and this plugin makes that material available as context when Cowork drafts something new. For instance, Cowork could draw on an internal wiki page when writing a proposal or onboarding document, instead of relying only on files stored in SharePoint. That breadth across documentation, lightweight project tracking and knowledge management is why Notion ranks in the top five. It's especially useful for companies that use Microsoft 365 for email and calendar but keep their knowledge base elsewhere.

Limitations: It requires a Notion account and duplicates some of what SharePoint and OneDrive already provide. Organizations that store documentation mainly in Microsoft's tools will get less from it. Cowork's answers are only as current as your Notion workspace, so outdated wiki pages can carry into new drafts.

6. Asana

Asana's plugin turns conversations into action items in Asana to keep work on track. Much of what Cowork produces generates follow-up work, whether it's a planning document, a project brief or a review of open issues. This plugin lets those follow-ups land directly in the project tool where your team tracks them, instead of in a document someone has to transcribe. For example, you might ask Cowork to review a project plan and create tasks for each open item. Asana is used across marketing, operations, product and agency teams, which gives it strong breadth. As a partner integration from a well-known vendor, it also scores well on maturity.

Limitations: It requires an Asana account and only adds value if your team already runs projects in Asana. Cowork-generated tasks still need a human to check owners, due dates and priority before they go out. Otherwise, automated task creation can clutter a project board quickly.

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7. Box

Box's plugin helps users share, find, and use Box content to support productivity and collaboration. For organizations that store contracts, client files or shared assets in Box rather than SharePoint, the plugin closes a real gap. Without it, Cowork can't see those documents, and users end up downloading and re-uploading files to give it context. With the plugin, Cowork can find and reference Box content while working on a task. For example, it could locate the latest version of a client agreement before drafting a related summary. Box is common in legal, financial services, media and other document-heavy industries, which gives it reasonable breadth. It was also among the vendors Microsoft named for its initial wave of planned plugins at general availability.

Limitations: It requires a Box account and mostly overlaps with SharePoint and OneDrive for organizations standardized on Microsoft storage. Companies with strict content-governance rules will want to confirm how Box permissions carry through to what Cowork can access before rolling it out broadly.

8. Miro

Microsoft's catalog describes Miro as a visual workspace for real-time collaboration, brainstorming, and project management. Miro was one of the first partner integrations Microsoft announced for Cowork, which gives it a longer track record than most entries here. The plugin is useful when work moves between visual and written formats. For example, Cowork could turn a planning document into a structure your team can refine on a board, or draw on a workshop board when drafting a follow-up summary. Product, design, strategy and workshop-heavy teams will get the most from it. It ranks mid-list because its value is strongest in specific kinds of collaborative work, not in daily routine tasks.

Limitations: It requires a Miro account and is best suited to visual, workshop-style work. Teams whose work is mostly text, email and spreadsheets will use it less. Boards also tend to accumulate unstructured sticky notes, which can make them a noisier source for Cowork than well-organized documents.

9. Canva

Microsoft's catalog describes Canva as an easy-to-use, collaborative design platform for teams. For teams that produce social graphics, one-pagers, internal announcements or event materials, the plugin connects Cowork's drafting work to the place where those assets are actually designed. A marketing coordinator might have Cowork draft copy for a campaign and then carry that work into Canva, instead of retyping it. Canva is widely used outside dedicated design teams, which is why it ranks higher than more specialized creative tools. It was also on Microsoft's list of planned plugins at general availability and now appears in the official catalog.

Limitations: It requires a Canva account, and team features generally require a paid plan. Its usefulness is concentrated in marketing, communications and small teams without dedicated designers. Organizations with strict brand standards may prefer a template-governance tool such as Templafy, which is covered below, for official documents.

10. DeepL MCP

DeepL's plugin translates text and documents in more than 100 languages, with your glossaries applied. The glossary support separates it from general-purpose translation. Teams that maintain approved terminology for products, legal language or industry jargon can keep translations consistent instead of correcting the same terms repeatedly. In a Cowork workflow, you might have Cowork draft a client update and then translate it for regional offices in one pass. It suits companies with international teams, customers or partners, and it's relevant to almost any department that communicates across languages. That breadth is why a translation tool earns a spot on a general productivity list.

Limitations: It requires a DeepL account, and glossary and document features may depend on your plan. Machine translation of legal, medical or contractual material still needs review by a qualified human. Organizations handling sensitive documents should confirm DeepL's data-handling terms before translating confidential content through it.

11. Templafy

Templafy's plugin helps create consistent, high-quality presentations with branded templates, AI, and best-practice content. One common frustration with AI-generated documents is that they come out in generic formatting that doesn't match company standards. Templafy addresses that by tying Cowork's output to your organization's approved templates and content. For example, a sales team could have Cowork assemble a client presentation that starts from the approved branded template instead of a blank deck. It's most valuable for larger organizations where brand, legal and compliance teams control how external documents look. It was one of the vendors Microsoft named at general availability as planning a plugin.

Limitations: It only helps organizations already using Templafy, which is typically an enterprise purchase. It depends on your template library being maintained, since outdated templates will produce outdated documents. Smaller companies without formal brand governance will get little from it.

12. Dynamics 365 Sales

Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Sales plugin lets Cowork query leads, opportunities, accounts, and sales pipeline data. As a Microsoft plugin, it scores well on maturity. Microsoft describes it as a quality-validated set of prompts that run on out-of-the-box Dynamics 365 data, which suggests fewer configuration surprises than a partner-built connector. Sales managers can use it to prepare pipeline reviews, and account teams can use it to assemble account briefings that combine CRM records with recent email and documents. It ranks lower than the tools above only because its audience is limited to sales teams at organizations running Dynamics 365.

Limitations: Dynamics 365 plugins require an associated Power Platform environment, which you select after adding the plugin. The Sales integration is enabled by default and can be disabled in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Admins should know it's on before users start asking CRM questions. Pipeline outputs are only as reliable as the underlying CRM data.

13. HubSpot MCP

HubSpot's plugin pulls deals, contacts, companies, pipelines, and tickets from your CRM. It fills the same role as Dynamics 365 Sales for the many companies, especially small and mid-sized businesses, that run their go-to-market on HubSpot. Because it covers support tickets as well as deals, it's useful to both sales and customer-service teams. For example, you could ask Cowork for an account summary that includes open deals and recent support issues before a renewal call. Marketing teams on HubSpot can also use it to bring contact and company context into campaign planning. It ranks next to Dynamics 365 Sales because the two serve similar needs for different CRM customers.

Limitations: It requires a HubSpot account, and which data is available depends on your HubSpot plan and permissions. Organizations should decide which users need CRM access through Cowork, since the plugin can surface customer contact information in drafts. Summaries built from incomplete CRM records will reflect those gaps.

14. Azure DevOps MCP Server (Remote)

This plugin lets Cowork manage Azure DevOps work items, builds, git, queries, and releases. For engineering organizations built on Microsoft's developer stack, it connects Cowork to where development work is planned and tracked. Engineering managers could use it to draft sprint summaries from recent work items. Product managers could use it to check the status of features before writing a release note or stakeholder update. Because it covers builds and releases as well as work items, it spans more of the development process than a plain task tracker. It rounds out the list because it serves a specific audience well, even if that audience is narrower than the tools above.

Limitations: It's mainly relevant to engineering and product teams using Azure DevOps. Teams on other issue trackers get nothing from it. Because the plugin can act on builds, repositories and releases, admins should carefully scope which users can use its write actions through Cowork. Changes made by an agent should be reviewed as carefully as changes made by a person.

Honorable mentions

Several plugins fell just outside the top fifteen:

• Trello: Reads boards, lists, cards and checklists, but is less widely adopted in enterprise environments.
• Make: An automation platform similar to Zapier, with a smaller app library.
• Cronofy MCP: Handles multi-participant scheduling, but is narrow in scope.
• PandaDoc: Covers document creation and e-signature, and is strong for sales teams in particular.
• Harvey: A legal assistant, excluded as too role-specific for a general list.

Microsoft also supports custom plugins, so organizations with internal systems can build their own using the same package format.

Which Copilot Cowork plugins should you start with?

Start with the plugins that connect Cowork to wherever your team's work already lives, not the ones with the most features. For most organizations, that means three layers:

• Data: Fabric IQ, or your CRM plugin (Dynamics 365 Sales or HubSpot), so Cowork can work from real numbers and records.
• Work tracking: Asana, monday.com or Azure DevOps, so the follow-ups Cowork generates land somewhere they'll get done.
• Context: Notion or Box for documents, and a meeting plugin such as Fellow or Fireflies if your meetings happen outside Teams, so Cowork can draw on what was said and written.

Zapier covers most of the gaps between those layers.

Adding more plugins is not automatically better. Each partner plugin is another account to manage, another vendor with access to company data, and another source of information that can be out of date. A small set of well-maintained connections will usually get more done than a long list of plugins few people use.

The catalog is also changing quickly. It went from a handful of launch partners in May to well over a hundred partner plugins by September. Check what your admin has approved in the Microsoft 365 App Store before committing to a workflow, and expect this list to shift.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Copilot Cowork plugin?

A Copilot Cowork plugin extends Microsoft's agentic feature with new capabilities. It can include skills, connectors, or both. Skills teach Cowork domain expertise, while connectors link it to external data and services so it can read and act on information outside Microsoft 365.

Are Copilot Cowork plugins free?

The plugins themselves are distributed through the Microsoft 365 App Store, but using them isn't free. Cowork requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and is billed by usage in Copilot Credits. Most partner plugins also need an account with the underlying service, and many require a paid plan with that vendor.

How do I add a plugin to Copilot Cowork?

You install plugins through the Microsoft 365 App Store, and your admin can also deploy plugins for your whole organization. Partner plugins must be made available by your IT admin before you can add them. The first time you use one, Cowork asks you to sign in to the service and authorize the connection.

How many plugins are available for Copilot Cowork?

Microsoft's official catalog lists four Microsoft-built plugins (Fabric IQ and three Dynamics 365 plugins) plus well over a hundred partner plugins, as of its September 2026 update. The list your organization sees may be shorter, depending on what your admin has approved.

Can Copilot Cowork access meetings recorded outside Microsoft Teams?

Not on its own, but meeting plugins can fill that gap. Fellow's plugin covers Zoom, Google Meet, in-person meetings, and botless desktop recordings. Fireflies' plugin retrieves transcripts, summaries, and action items from calls. Other meeting tool plugins include TeamsMaestro, Grain and Memoket.

Is it safe to connect third-party plugins to Copilot Cowork?

It depends on the vendor and on how your organization governs access. Cowork integrates with the Purview controls security and compliance teams already use to manage Microsoft 365 Copilot. Admins also control which plugins are available. Before approving a partner plugin, review the vendor's data-handling and security terms, check which permissions carry through, and limit write access where possible. This matters most for plugins that touch sensitive data, such as CRM, HR or meeting recordings.

Can my company build its own Copilot Cowork plugin?

Yes. Organizations can build custom plugins using the same package format as Microsoft and partner plugins, with both skills and connectors. Microsoft's tooling can also import existing Claude Code or Cursor plugins that use skills and MCP servers.