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Search Less, Build More: Inner Sourcing with GitHub CoPilot and ADO MCP Server

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Sep 16, 2025

Developers spend far too much time hunting through repositories, wikis, and scattered documentation to find the right standards, frameworks, or examples they need. It becomes so labour intensive that any productivity gains are lost. Similarly organisations need to be able to enforce certain standards and encourage utilisation of reusable modules. What if your IDE could do that heavy lifting for you? By combining GitHub CoPilot with the Azure MCP server (and its powerful code_search extension), you can transform CoPilot into more than just a coding assistant—it becomes a discovery engine for your organizational knowledge.

Developers burn cycles context‑switching: opening five repos to find a logging example, searching a wiki for a data masking rule, scrolling chat history for the latest pipeline pattern. Organisations...
Published Sep 16, 2025
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