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I want to build a multi agent orchestration in the new copilot studio experience as the outputs seem way more user friendly. I am starting this as a simple policy agent, where it has connected agents for each domain (with each connected agent having its own knowledge sources). In the future we want to expand this to include other functionality and for these connected agents to connect to our external langgraph agents via A2A. However, I am knew to copilot studio and currently I am getting stuck with agents not passing citations to the parent agent to display to the user. This is a crucial functionality to ensure confidence in the agent. Does anyone know how I can fix this in the new experience? I have built it in the classic experience but I want to benefit from the improved orchestration in the new experience.

Hi,

You're not alone, this is one of the current limitations many people run into with multi-agent orchestration in the new Copilot Studio experience.

When a parent agent delegates a request to a connected agent, the connected agent may use its own knowledge sources internally, but the citations are not always propagated back to the parent agent for display. As a result, the parent agent can return a well-formed answer without exposing the underlying citations that the connected agent used.

A few things to verify:

Make sure each connected agent is configured to return answers from its knowledge sources rather than generating responses without retrieval.

Test each connected agent independently to confirm that citations appear when it's called directly.

If citations appear in the standalone agent but disappear only when invoked through the orchestrator, it's likely a platform limitation rather than a configuration issue.

Since you've already confirmed this works in the classic experience, your configuration is probably correct. The difference is likely in how the new orchestration pipeline handles responses from connected agents.

For now, if displaying citations is a hard requirement for your users, you may need to continue using the classic experience for this scenario until citation propagation is supported in the new orchestration experience.

I'm interested to hear if anyone has found a reliable workaround, as this would be valuable for enterprise scenarios where source attribution is essential.