GitHub MCP Server Deep Dive and Context Engineering

Overview

This post is a companion to the recorded deep dive demo and notes showing how GitHub Copilot integrates with GitHub's Model Context Protocol (MCP) remote server and how to apply context engineering with instruction files and prompt files in VS Code.

YouTube demo (watch on YouTube):

Notes and resources

• MCP Server Lists: modelcontextprotocol/servers
• GitHub's official MCP Server: github/github-mcp-server
• Instruction files and prompt files: Instructions and Prompt Files

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