Copilot Studio Limitations¶
Keep these limitations in mind when working with Copilot Studio.
limitations for the custom agents and skills:
- The cycle time of a user question calling agents and skills is limited to 60 seconds in total.
- The cycle time of each requested skill within an agent is limited to 30 seconds.
- The number of agents per tenant is limited to 10.
- The number of skills per tenant is limited to 50.
- When a question is asked, a maximum of 10 skills are requested.
- The output of a skill is currently limited to 512 KB.
- Agents cannot be chained.
- VFC compute hours are used when a skill is triggered.
- Instructions of agents have to be guard-railed according to the use case.
- It is essential that custom agents and skills are tested properly.
- We recommend testing individual skills first and then proceeding to test their interaction in the context of an agent.
- We recommend testing based on typical user questions.
Last update: March 16, 2026