Title: Unclear documentation for VS Code · Issue #2743 · github/github-mcp-server · GitHub
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Description: For people that already have https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat, is there any reason to install this mcp if you do not want to use it outside of VS Code? As far as I am aware there isn't. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode...
Open Graph Description: For people that already have https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat, is there any reason to install this mcp if you do not want to use it outside of VS Code? As far as I am aware there is...
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