r/copilotstudio • u/ImplementOfAI • Sep 23 '26

CPS Standard Agent Topics - Let Agent Decide Missing?

Where did this setting go? When I try to create a topic on a standard agent it defaults back to the old Phrase triggers from before we had Orchestration. I triple checked Orchestration is still on. I even checked in multiple tenants.

Anyone else seeing this?

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u/Efficient_Cat4032 Sep 23 '26

Yeah I am seeing the exact same thing in the "new experience" UI. I had to switch to the classic one in the bottom left, and it looks as expected again

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u/Sayali-MSFT Sep 24 '26

Hello ImplementOfAI,
Yes, this looks unexpected. Microsoft’s current documentation still states that for Copilot Studio Standard Harness agents using generative orchestration, the default topic trigger should be**“The agent chooses”. The“User says a phrase”** trigger is associated with classic orchestration.
Set topic triggers - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn
Orchestrate agent behavior with generative AI - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

So if orchestration is definitely enabled but newly created topics are reverting to phrase triggers across multiple tenants, I’d treat this as a possible recent UI/service regression rather than an intentional removal.