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GPT-4.1 & HITL Workflow Nodes

🌊 2026 Release Wave 1 Updates15 min500 BASE XP

New Defaults and Capabilities

GPT-4.1 is now the default generative engine for Copilot Studio orchestration. It provides significantly faster function-calling and deeper reasoning for dynamic tool selection.

Additionally, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now fully supported as an optional model specifically optimized for Computer-Using Agents (CUAs), given its superior visual reasoning capabilities.

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Forms

The most requested feature of 2025 is now GA: HITL Dynamic Workflow Nodes. When an agent reaches a high-stakes decision point, it can automatically pause execution and trigger a structured Outlook Adaptive Card Form.

The human manager reviews the agent's proposed action in Outlook, modifies the parameters if necessary, and clicks 'Approve'. The agent instantly wakes up and resumes the workflow with the human's input.

April 2026 GA Announcements

FeatureStatusImpact
Copilot Studio Multi-Agent CoordinationGAOrchestrate multiple specialized agents from a single Copilot Studio environment — each with distinct knowledge, tools, and permission scopes.
Work IQGAAI-powered process mining that discovers automation opportunities from employee work patterns across M365 — surfaces bottlenecks and suggests agents.
Evaluation APIsPublic PreviewProgrammatic agent quality assessment — score agents on groundedness, coherence, and safety before production deployment.
GPT-5.5 IntegrationPreviewGPT-5.5 available as an optional orchestration model with 1M token context for deep multi-document agentic workflows.
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