Working with MCP servers in GitHub Copilot Agent mode
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In this video, Liam Hansen, a senior cloud advocate on the Visual Studio Code developer tools team at Microsoft, introduces and demos the new full spec support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in VS Code. He explains MCP servers as a way to extend large language models with additional context using external tooling and API calls, making integrations plug-and-play. Liam walks through installing and configuring MCP servers in VS Code, including GitHub and Perplexity servers, and showcases how they can be used in real development scenarios. Specifically, he demonstrates generating a detailed README for a personal website project by using MCP servers to pull GitHub issue data and best practices from Perplexity, then combining that info via agent mode in Copilot to auto-create the README content. The video highlights the practical benefits of MCP servers in enhancing LLMs with rich contextual data and enabling powerful developer workflows directly inside VS Code.