Microsoft announced on April 15 that Power Apps now exposes structured app capabilities as reusable tools for AI agents through an app-level MCP server. The feature is in public preview, with custom UX skills coming soon. An Agent Feed for supervising agent activity directly inside business apps reaches general availability on May 4, 2026. Microsoft 365 Copilot is now generally available in model-driven Power Apps.
How the MCP Server Works
According to the official Microsoft Power Platform Blog, the new app skills, including data entry, exploration, visualization, and summarization, “can now be exposed as reusable tools for agents in public preview” via each app’s MCP server. The initial release covers structured form and grid views.
The practical effect: any AI agent with MCP capability, whether Copilot, a custom agent, or an external automation, can now call into a Power App’s data and UI surfaces programmatically. A recruiting app that has accumulated years of hiring policy, as Microsoft’s blog describes, “can now power an agent that accesses the same records, enforces the same rules, and operates under the same controls.”
This represents a two-way relationship. Copilot and AI come into the app to help users work faster. Simultaneously, the app’s capabilities flow outward into agents and automations. As Windows News AI reported, the update combines Copilot integration, MCP Server for AI agents, and a human approval feed into a single release.
Agent Feed and Human Oversight
The Agent Feed, generally available May 4, 2026, gives business users a dedicated interface to review and guide agent activity as it happens inside the app they are already using. Makers control the approval threshold: low-risk actions complete in the background, while higher-impact actions like sending emails surface as explicit approvals requiring human sign-off.
Microsoft’s blog uses an insurance claims example: an agent extracts data from incoming emails and prepopulates case forms, while adjusters review and approve in the Agent Feed before anything enters the system. Side-by-side comparisons, deep links to records, and performance signals are built into the oversight interface.
Scale and Context
Power Apps serves as Microsoft’s low-code business application platform with over 33 million monthly active users. Making every Power App a potential MCP endpoint gives agent builders structured access to the business rules, permissions, and process knowledge embedded in those applications without requiring custom API integrations.
The announcement lands in the same week that Salesforce shipped 60+ MCP tools via Headless 360 at TDX 2026 and launched its unified AgentExchange marketplace, while Autodesk deployed dual MCP servers across its design and manufacturing portfolio. The enterprise application tier is converging on MCP as the standard integration protocol for AI agents, and Microsoft’s contribution brings 33 million users’ worth of business apps into that ecosystem with a concrete GA date two weeks out.