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copilot --idea "MCP-Powered Personal Assistant"
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Connect your calendar, email, tasks, and code repos via MCP to build a unified work assistant
The Problem
You use 12 tools to get your work done. Slack for chat, Outlook for email, Jira for tickets, GitHub for code, Teams for meetings, Confluence for docs. Context-switching between them eats 2 hours of your day. What if one interface could orchestrate all of them?
What You'll Build
A personal productivity system using MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers:
- Connect multiple work tools via MCP
- Natural language queries across all your work data
- Automated workflows that span multiple systems
- A single terminal interface for everything
Step-by-Step Walkthrough
Phase 1: Set Up MCP Servers
MCP servers expose tools that Copilot CLI can call. Start with the ones that matter most:
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"Help me set up these MCP servers:
1. GitHub MCP server (already built-in)
2. A custom MCP server for my calendar (Microsoft Graph API)
3. A custom MCP server for Jira/Azure DevOps work items
Create the server scaffolding and authentication setup."
Phase 2: Daily Briefing
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"Give me my morning briefing:
1. What meetings do I have today? Flag any I need to prepare for.
2. What PRs are waiting for my review? How old are they?
3. What Jira tickets are assigned to me and due this week?
4. Any deployments scheduled for today?
5. Summarise unread emails from my team."
Phase 3: Cross-System Workflows
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"A customer reported a bug in their support ticket.
1. Create a Jira bug ticket with the details
2. Find the relevant code in GitHub
3. Create a branch and start investigating the fix
4. Draft a response to the customer with an ETA"
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"I just merged PR #234.
1. Update the Jira ticket to 'Done'
2. Add a comment linking to the PR
3. Check if there's a deployment pipeline to trigger
4. Draft release notes for this change"
Phase 4: Meeting Automation
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"For my 2pm architecture review meeting:
1. Pull the agenda from the calendar invite
2. Find all recent PRs and commits related to the agenda topics
3. Generate a summary of changes since the last meeting
4. Create a list of open questions and decisions needed"
Phase 5: Weekly Report
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"Generate my weekly status report:
- PRs merged this week (with one-line summaries)
- Tickets completed and in-progress
- Key decisions made (from meeting notes)
- Blockers and risks
Format for both email and Slack."
Pro Tips
• Start with just GitHub and one other tool — don't try to connect everything at once
• MCP servers are just HTTP endpoints — you can build custom ones for any API
• The WorkIQ tool can already query Microsoft 365 data
• Use tool chaining: output from one MCP server becomes input to another
What You'll Learn
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture and server development
• API integration patterns across multiple services
• Workflow automation across organisational tools
• Building compound AI systems that coordinate multiple tools