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Integrate MCP with GitHub Copilot

Learn how to give GitHub Copilot more tools to expand the capabilities of your development workflow. All in less than an hour!

Welcome

Who is this for: Developers looking to enhance their AI-assisted workflows, GitHub Copilot users, and AI enthusiasts.
What you'll learn: We'll introduce MCP basics, a GitHub MCP server setup, and integration with Copilot Agent Mode.
What you'll build: A mixed development workflow that uses GitHub Copilot to manage issues while upgrading the extracurricular activities website for Mergington High School.
Prerequisites:Getting Started with Copilot Exercise
How long: This exercise takes less than one hour to complete.

In this exercise, you will:

Integrate a GitHub MCP server with GitHub Copilot.
Delegate Copilot to research similar projects and open issues.
Ask Copilot to find an important issue and implement it from idea to pull request.
Add comments to a recently closed issue.

How to start this exercise

Important

This exercise assumes basic knowledge ofGitHub Copilot. If you are unfamiliar, we recommend theGetting Started with Copilot exercise.

Simply copy the exercise to your account, then give your favorite Octocat (Mona)about 20 seconds to prepare the first lesson, thenrefresh the page.

Having trouble? 🤷

When copying the exercise, we recommend the following settings:

For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.
We recommend creating a public repository, since private repositories will use Actions minutes.

If the exercise isn't ready in 20 seconds, please check theActions tab.

Check to see if a job is running. Sometimes it simply takes a bit longer.
If the page shows a failed job, please submit an issue. Nice, you found a bug! 🐛