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Building smarter interactions with MCP elicitation: From clunky tool calls to seamless user experiences

Building smarter interactions with MCP elicitation: From clunky tool calls to seamless user experiences

2025-09-04 · 7 min GitHub

Explore how MCP elicitation transforms AI tool interactions by gathering missing information upfront.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's keep building!

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Let's keep building!

2025-08-28 GitHub

In this live stream, we recap the MCP server elicitation feature and then dive into GitHub Actions fundamentals — building workflows from scratch, covering triggers, jobs, dependencies with needs, matrix builds for cross-platform testing, and workflow_dispatch for manual runs. We also walk through a packed GitHub changelog covering ARM64 runners, GPT-5 in GitHub Models, immutable releases, and GitHub MCP server secret scanning.

Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities

Building your first MCP server: How to extend AI tools with custom capabilities

2025-08-22 · 10 min GitHub

Learn Model Context Protocol by building a turn-based game server that shows how to extend GitHub Copilot with custom tools, resources, and prompts.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building a turn-based-game MCP server

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building a turn-based-game MCP server

2025-08-07 GitHub

In this live stream, we continue building a turn-based game MCP server, implementing MCP elicitation to gather user preferences and consolidating duplicate tool calls into cleaner abstractions. We also recap the latest GitHub changelog including npm trusted publishing with OIDC, Claude Opus 4.1, and Copilot coding agent updates.

What's new with the GitHub Copilot coding agent: A look at the updates

What's new with the GitHub Copilot coding agent: A look at the updates

2025-07-25 GitHub

GitHub Copilot coding agent can help burn down your backlog, kickstart new projects, and refactor legacy codebases. This video walks through the major upgrades shipped in June: Copilot Business and Copilot Pro access to the agent, viewing recent coding agent sessions from the agents page, Playwright MCP by default for validating and screenshotting UI changes, and support for remote MCP servers.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Build for the love of code

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Build for the love of code

2025-07-24 GitHub

In this episode, we recap the latest GitHub changelog including GitHub Spark entering public preview and coding agent support for instructions.md files. We introduce the 'Build for the love of code' hackathon, prototype a rubber duck debugging app with GitHub Spark, and build an MCP server from scratch using TypeScript while exploring tools, prompts, and resources.

Github-Informatiker verrät seine 4 besten KI-Prompts

Github-Informatiker verrät seine 4 besten KI-Prompts

2025-07-22

Featured in Gründerszene/Business Insider Germany discussing my daily use of AI tools for productivity, focusing on the prompts I use to automate repetitive tasks.

Debugging UI with AI: GitHub Copilot agent mode meets MCP servers

Debugging UI with AI: GitHub Copilot agent mode meets MCP servers

2025-07-22 · 10 min GitHub

Explore how I use agentic tools like GitHub Copilot agent mode and the Playwright MCP server to accelerate troubleshooting and debugging of UI issues, while revisiting the importance of clear requirements.

From chaos to clarity: Using GitHub Copilot agents to improve developer workflows

From chaos to clarity: Using GitHub Copilot agents to improve developer workflows

2025-07-15 · 7 min GitHub

Explore how you can set Copilot coding agent up for success with custom instruction and Copilot setup steps.

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Copilot agent mode, coding agent and MCP servers

Rubber Duck Thursdays - Copilot agent mode, coding agent and MCP servers

2025-07-10 GitHub

In this episode, we review the latest GitHub changelog including remote MCP server support for coding agent and Copilot code review on mobile. We use the Playwright MCP server with Copilot agent mode to debug and fix UI issues in the Octo Arcade project, discuss the differences between ask, edit, and agent modes in VS Code, and explore MCP server concepts like tools, prompts, and resources.