Rubber Duck Thursdays - Building a turn-based-game MCP server
Join us for Rubber Duck Thursdays! A lighthearted and informal stream where we live code on some projects.
In this stream, we continue building our turn-based game MCP server, focusing on implementing elicitation — a Model Context Protocol feature for gathering additional user input when creating games. We consolidate duplicate tool calls (create game, play game) into generic handlers, reducing code duplication and improving maintainability. The session also covers using Copilot coding agent to automate refactoring tasks like extracting shared constants and removing duplicated difficulty badge logic.
The GitHub changelog recap covers npm trusted publishing with OIDC, Claude Opus 4.1 in public preview, Copilot coding agent improvements, new GitHub Actions REST APIs, and secret protection pattern expansions.
- Take part in “For the love of code”: https://gh.io/love-of-code
- Explore the turn-based-game MCP server: https://gh.io/rdt/game-mcp
- Check out the latest GitHub releases: https://gh.io/rdt/changelog
- Try out GitHub Copilot: https://gh.io/rdt/copilot
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