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AI coding assistants have become an essential part of my daily workflow. Among the various many available, GitHub Copilot stands out as the most powerful and versatile. GitHub Copilot integrates with Visual Studio Code and other popular IDEs, providing context-aware suggestions that help me write code faster and smarter. In this post, I will share my personal workflow with GitHub Copilot — why it has become such a big productivity boost, and how it goes far beyond simple code completion to support many other tasks.

While tools extend GenAI application capabilities by allowing models to call external functions they are typically scoped to a specific model or framework. MCP solves this by providing a standard interface that simplifies integration across models and tools. In this post, we will see how easy it is to set up a local MCP server and interact with it directly from GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code.