Microsoft presents its first AI agent powered by OpenClaw
Software giant Microsoft is expanding its use of the open-source platform OpenClaw and has unveiled its first-ever AI agent, Scout. It can schedule meetings and complete tasks across Microsoft 365 and the web. The company also introduced new security tools.
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Software giant Microsoft is expanding its use of the open-source platform OpenClaw and has unveiled its first-ever AI agent, Scout. It can schedule meetings and complete tasks across Microsoft 365 and the web. The company also introduced new security tools.
- Microsoft has unveiled its first AI agent, Scout, powered by the open-source platform OpenClaw, during its Build conference.
- Scout integrates with Microsoft 365 and can autonomously schedule meetings, create materials, and perform tasks across cloud, desktop, and web environments.
- The system runs under secure enterprise identities using Microsoft’s Entra framework and is supported by new execution container technology for safer deployment.
- Microsoft also introduced expanded AI-driven security tools that use multiple agents to detect and validate vulnerabilities across codebases.
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During its Build developer conference, Microsoft launched Microsoft Scout, its first Autopilot agent powered by OpenClaw, and shared more details about Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), which should help make agentic systems in enterprise environments safer.
According to the company, Scout is integrated across Microsoft 365 apps and operates across the cloud, desktop, and web.
"You interact with it in Teams, and extend its reach through the desktop app to your browser, local resources, and model context protocol servers," the company said, adding that the agent can proactively schedule meetings, create needed materials for them, and perform other tasks, including learning about the user and their needs.
Meanwhile, for enterprise users, agents operate under their own governed Entra identity, not a shared, anonymous service account.
"Identity tells you who is acting; access control determines what they can do," the company said. For now, Microsoft Scout is available to a select, unspecified group of customers. The company didn't specify when it will be available to everyone.
According to Microsoft, OpenClaw runs natively on Windows, leveraging MXC, meaning the Windows node and gateway run in a contained environment that helps protect users' systems.
"You can use the new Windows companion app to easily set up your own claws or connect to existing ones," the company said.
Additionally, Microsoft said that its new Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness is available in an expanded preview for eligible organizations and is now also integrated with Microsoft Defender.
"This new agentic security system orchestrates a pipeline of more than 100 specialized AI agents using an ensemble of models to discover, validate, and prove exploitability across codebases written in popular programming languages," the software giant said, noting that real progress in AI depends on whether organizations can trust the systems they are building and deploying.
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