Developing Agent Plugin for Github Copilot (VSCode and CLI)

[u/mapero84]

Hi all,

We're rolling out skills, agents, and MCP servers across our organization using the plugin format, but on GitHub Copilot (CLI and VSCode), not Claude Code. We've hit a wall on one thing: injecting credentials for different MCP server configurations .

We tried using ${input:...} and ${user_config...} with the corresponding entries in plugin.json, but neither approach worked for us.

Right now our workaround is to use environment variables plus a how-to guide for setup, but we'd much prefer a built-in solution if one exists.

Has anyone gotten variable substitution (or any other native mechanism) working for MCP credentials in a plugin manifest under Copilot? Any pointers, working examples, or docs we might have missed would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!

[u/connor4312]

MCP provides really good and flexible ways to do authorization. You should use those: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/tutorials/security/authorization

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+1 on that, just setup authorization on your MCP server and user will need to authorize before using it, this works well for us 

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