Add Copilot Component templates (minimal, no-framework, react)

api/spfx-template-api/etc/spfx-template-api.api.md

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ export class ServeJsonMergeHelper extends JsonMergeHelper {
 }
 
 // @public
-export const SPFX_TEMPLATE_CATEGORIES: readonly ['webpart', 'extension', 'ace', 'library'];
+export const SPFX_TEMPLATE_CATEGORIES: readonly ['webpart', 'extension', 'ace', 'library', 'copilot'];
 
 // @public
 export type SPFxRepositorySource = LocalFileSystemRepositorySource | PublicGitHubRepositorySource;

api/spfx-template-api/src/templating/SPFxTemplateJsonFile.ts

@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@ const DESCRIPTION_MAX_LENGTH: number = 500;
  * The allowed category values for SPFx templates.
  * @public
  */
-export const SPFX_TEMPLATE_CATEGORIES: readonly ['webpart', 'extension', 'ace', 'library'] = [
+export const SPFX_TEMPLATE_CATEGORIES: readonly ['webpart', 'extension', 'ace', 'library', 'copilot'] = [
   'webpart',
   'extension',
   'ace',
-  'library'
+  'library',
+  'copilot'
 ] as const;
 
 /**

apps/spfx-cli/README.md

@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ Templates are fetched at runtime from the [SharePoint/spfx](https://github.com/S
 | `ace-generic-primarytext-card` | Generic primary text card |
 | `ace-search-card` | Search card |
 
+### Copilot Components
+
+| Name | Description |
+|------|-------------|
+| `copilot-component-minimal` | Bare-bones Copilot Component, no UI framework |
+| `copilot-component-noframework` | No-framework Copilot Component (HTML/CSS) with theming and localization |
+| `copilot-component-react` | React-based Copilot Component using Fluent UI, Microsoft Graph, and SharePoint REST |
+
 ### Other
 
 | Name | Description |

common/changes/@microsoft/spfx-cli/add-copilot-component-template_2026-06-03.json

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "@microsoft/spfx-cli",
+      "comment": "",
+      "type": "none"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/spfx-cli"
+}

common/config/rush/common-versions.json

@@ -78,6 +78,17 @@
     "eslint": [
       // Used by templates and examples for now
       "8.57.1"
-    ]
+    ],
+    // The copilot component templates track a newer SPFx line than the other
+    // templates (see templates/copilot-component-*). Allow their SPFx package
+    // versions in addition to the repo's usual version.
+    "@microsoft/eslint-config-spfx": ["1.24.0-beta.2"],
+    "@microsoft/eslint-plugin-spfx": ["1.24.0-beta.2"],
+    "@microsoft/sp-lodash-subset": ["1.24.0-beta.2"],
+    "@microsoft/sp-module-interfaces": ["1.24.0-beta.2"],
+    "@microsoft/spfx-web-build-rig": ["1.24.0-beta.2"],
+    // Copilot component templates use zod 3.x (required by zod-to-json-schema),
+    // whereas the CLI tooling uses zod 4.x.
+    "zod": ["3.24.1"]
   }
 }