MCP ADO Tools Not Available to GitHub Copilot Agent

[armaansood]

Describe the bug

The ADO MCP server is configured and shows 80 available tools when the user runs mcp show ado, including tools like:

- repo_create_pull_request
- advsec_get_alerts
- core_list_projects
- etc

Affected version

0.0.399

Steps to reproduce the behavior

• Configure an MCP server (e.g., ADO) in the Copilot CLI environment
  • Verify the server is enabled: mcp show ado shows tools available
  • Ask the Copilot agent to perform an action that requires an MCP tool (e.g., "create a pull request")
  • Observe that the agent does not have access to the MCP tool

Expected behavior

MCP tools from enabled servers should be exposed to the Copilot agent as callable functions, allowing the agent to directly invoke tools like repo_create_pull_request to create pull requests in Azure
DevOps

Additional context

it was working earlier today

[JamesDunlop]

I have this same scenario / bug.

[RobinsonRojas]

The coman "/mcp show" show the mcp server running, but the message initials the copilot does not show the MCP

[examon]

This has been fixed. Multiple MCP tool availability improvements have shipped since v0.0.399, including fixes for race conditions in tool loading and improved MCP server connection handling. Notably, v1.0.12 specifically addressed workspace MCP servers not being correctly loaded and visible to the agent. If you're still experiencing this on the latest version, please feel free to reopen this issue.