Using MCP server

[stefanstranger]

Describe the bug

I've configured an mcp server using the /mcp add option but Github Copilot is not using the tools configured.

How can I start the configured mcp server?

Affected version

0.0.328

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. /mcp add

mcp-config.json file content:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "signal-mcp-server": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": "uv",
      "tools": [
        "*"
      ],
      "args": [
        "run --with [mcp]cli --with signal-export mcp run c:\\github\\signal-mcp-server\\server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Expected behavior

No response

Additional context

After having configured the mcp server I would expect that the Github Copilot cli can call the tools from the MCP server.

[asw101]

I've hit this issue before (cc: @williammartin) and it was because I needed to supply the arguments with commas between them (you can see here the args array has one item).

[stefanstranger]

Fixed the issue with above guidance.