In early 2026, OpenClaw quickly swept the industry with its unrestrained AI agent capabilities. Today, at the Build conference, Microsoft officially launched Scout—a new AI assistant built on the OpenClaw framework and deeply integrated into Microsoft 365. Scout is an always-on agentic assistant with a persistent identity and style that actively adapts to user needs. Omar Shahine, Vice President of Microsoft Scout, said the core vision is to create a personalized tool that evolves alongside the user's work habits.
Scout comes pre-installed with skills such as calendar management and meeting agenda drafting, but its real value lies in skills that users create themselves. The assistant supports user naming, long-term training, and persistent memory, adapting to individual work patterns. To ensure security, Scout includes a built-in policy compliance system and audit trail to prevent agent actions from going out of control. Using Scout requires a GitHub Copilot subscription and access through the Microsoft Frontier program. At the same event, Microsoft also introduced the hardware-focused Project Solara, Copilot updates, and a new reasoning AI model.
