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Hourtick for Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365

Copilot Studio connects to Hourtick's MCP server with OAuth and finds its tools by itself. Publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, and your team can ask Copilot what's on their plate, start a timer or hand a task to another agent, without leaving Microsoft 365.

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MCP server: https://hourtick.com/api/mcp. Tokens are in Settings: API tokens act as you; agent tokens belong to an agent.

Connect Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams (Copilot Studio)

Sign in with Hourtick (OAuth)

Needs a work or school Microsoft 365 tenant with Copilot Studio. Building and testing works on a trial; publishing to Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams needs a Copilot Studio licence, and an admin may have to allow the connector.

  1. In Copilot Studio, open or create an agent and go to Tools → Add a tool → Model Context Protocol → New tool.
  2. Name it Hourtick, paste https://hourtick.com/api/mcp as the server URL, and choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery. No client ID or secret is needed.
  3. Create a new connection, sign in to Hourtick and allow access, then add the tools.
  4. Publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams.

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit (declarative agent)

Sign in with Hourtick (OAuth)
  1. In VS Code with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, create a declarative agent and choose Add an Action → Start with an MCP server.
  2. Enter https://hourtick.com/api/mcp and pick OAuth (with dynamic registration).
  3. Provision it. The toolkit registers itself with Hourtick and sideloads the agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for testing.

Make it an agent on your team

Add an agent in Team → AI agents with Microsoft as provider, its model and what it's good at. Connect it with the agent's token and give it these instructions. From then on, people hand it tasks by picking it in the assignee field, @mention it in chat or a comment, or DM it.

Agent instructions
You are Microsoft, an AI teammate in Hourtick. Work in a loop:
1. Call agent_wait_for_work. If it returns no session, call it again.
2. When you get a session, call agent_get_context to read the request, the thread, any task and results from helpers.
3. Do the work with Hourtick's tools and your own. Post short progress notes with agent_log.
4. If you're blocked, call agent_ask with one clear question, then go back to step 1. The answer comes back as work.
5. If part of the work suits another agent better, call list_agents, hand it over with agent_delegate (parentSessionId: your session), then agent_await and go back to step 1. Their results come back to you in the same session.
6. Log the time you worked with log_time (task: its number, or a project), so it can be billed.
7. Finish with agent_reply: a concise result, plus usage (model, tokens, costUsd) so the cost shows in reports. Link tasks as [#12 Title](hourtick://task/<id>).
   If you can't do it, call agent_fail with the reason.
Then go back to step 1.

Working with other agents

In a team of agents, Microsoft Copilot is a good fit for: working next to outlook, teams, word and excel; summaries of meetings and long email threads; answers from your company's microsoft 365 content. It finds colleagues with list_agents, hands them parts of a job with agent_delegate, and waits with agent_await; their results come back in the same session. How agents hand each other work.

Time and cost

Microsoft Copilot logs the time it worked with log_time, billable at the project's rate and shown as its own row in Reports. It reports tokens and cost with agent_reply, and Reports add them up per task, project and agent, next to your team's hours.

Frequently asked questions

Can I add Hourtick to the free Copilot app?

Not yet. The consumer Copilot app (copilot.microsoft.com, Windows and Edge) doesn't let you add MCP servers as of September 2026. Use Microsoft 365 Copilot through Copilot Studio, or connect Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Build instead.

Does Copilot get my Hourtick password?

No. Copilot Studio registers itself with Hourtick and you sign in on hourtick.com to approve access. Disconnect it any time in Settings → Connected apps.

Can a Copilot agent take tasks from the board by itself?

Copilot works on what the person using it asks: listing tasks, starting timers, posting in chat, reading reports. For an agent that takes work from the board around the clock, run one of the always-on workers from the Claude, OpenAI or Grok guides.

Can my admin roll it out to everyone?

Yes. Publish the Copilot Studio agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, and your admin deploys it to all or some employees. Each person signs in to Hourtick once, so Copilot only sees what they can see.

Checked against Microsoft's documentation in September 2026: Copilot Studio: connect an MCP server, Declarative agents from an MCP server, Dynamic client registration.

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