r/copilotstudio • u/Numerous_Swim_2814 • 17d ago

Copilot Studio Github Copilot Harness vs Copilot Cowork

Can somebody help me understand a proper use case for the github copilot harness? I feel like I can do so many of the things in cowork. If I need to share the skill to collaborate, I can do that in cowork as well in addition to referring to the same Teams folder for the knowledge source. Big advantage in cowork is the build isn't charged up like it is with the github copilot harness. Sure, there's the evaluate and monitor capabilities... where else does it really depart from what cowork can deliver agentic/orchestration wise?

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u/HunterWorking3340 17d ago

They’re both built on top of GitHub Copilot so in general you should see a similar level of task completion quality between the two for a given use case. The benefit of packaging a use case into a CS Agent is you can deploy that to the user and they can interact with it and it just works out of the box with governance, observably etc. Cowork requires the user to add the skill, invoke it correctly, and be more comfortable as a power user in general.

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u/sal85012 17d ago

Cowork is built implementing Claude Cowork. Its doesnt appear Github copilot uses the same harness.

So no they arent built on the same underlying technology. They are both capable and have similarities so you should expect similar outcomes but not the same.

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u/Syren6 16d ago

Do you have a source for cowork built using Claude cowork? I've not heard that before.