Copilot / Documents, Data & Research
Copilot: extract requirements without inventing acceptance criteria
Provide a specification with stable section labels. Decide whether recommendations and mandatory statements should be separated.
Environment and inputs: Copilot user guide · Feature and source access depend on the active account, app and organization settings. Optional file or app steps have a text-excerpt fallback. No fixed model version, price or usage quota is assumed.
What you will make
A practical Copilot guide to extract requirements without inventing acceptance criteria. Use the sample input and prompt, then check the result. Use a fictional Microsoft 365 workplace task as the practice setting. Identify the file or excerpt that supports the requested result.
Prepare the source and scope
Provide a specification with stable section labels. Decide whether recommendations and mandatory statements should be separated. Open your available Microsoft Copilot experience and confirm whether it can read the intended work source.
Try this prompt
In Copilot, provide the prepared input, then send the following request. For real work, replace fictional details with approved facts.
Extract requirements into ID, Requirement, Source section and Testable evidence. Separate must from should. Mark an inferred test as Suggested, not part of the source.Review the result
Each mandatory statement should appear once and preserve its qualifiers and scope. Record each correction and its supporting source.
If the answer is wrong or incomplete
An assistant can turn an example into a requirement. Review modal verbs and check suggested tests with the product owner. If the active Copilot surface cannot access the file or app, paste an authorized excerpt into chat. Keep the same review criteria for the text-only workflow.
Practice and completion check
Repeat with one incomplete input. Check the answer against the review criteria, remove unsupported claims and save the prompt with its source version. This workflow has not been verified in a customer deployment.