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I have the following use case I want to achieve within and agent that is hooked up to a took using clickup mcp.

Simple use case

1 - I use an adaptive card to show some options like "show me all roadmap items in build"

2 - I want that text to be passed to the chat as if the user typed the message and press return

More complex use case

As above but I don't just want to pass the exact same text, I want to pass the text "show me all roadmap items in location x, list y, status" build and deploy" to refine the text and constrain the answers.

So the user is simply tapping a button, and the agent consumes the text.

Is this possible? Feels like it. Should be but after a weeks research I'm struggling.

Categories:

Autonomous agents

General topics

Hi,

Good news — this is definitely achievable in Copilot Studio! Here's how:

The key: use Action.Submit in your Adaptive Card with imBack

When you design your Adaptive Card, use an Action.Submit with the data field containing the text you want to send to the conversation. Copilot Studio will treat it as a user message.

{
  "type": "Action.Submit",
  "title": "Show roadmap items in Build",
  "data": {
    "msteams": {
      "type": "imBack",
      "value": "show me all roadmap items in location x, list y, status build and deploy"
    }
  }
}

The imBack type sends the value text into the chat as if the user typed it — this works in Teams and in the Copilot Studio webchat channel.

For your more complex use case, just put the full refined query string directly in value. The user taps the button, the full pre-built query is submitted, and your MCP tool receives it like any normal user message.

One caveat: imBack works natively in Teams. In the WebChat channel, you may need to use postBack or handle the submit action in a topic using the Activity.Value variable to manually route the input to the right topic/action.

Hope this helps!
Paolo

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