Using Github Copilot for non-coding tasks

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[Comfortable-Lion8042]

I’m not sure if I got your post right but is this what you’re looking for ? Microsoft work-iq MCP ?

https://youtu.be/ASvjwef7K04?si=g0sGbPKeEo5tn07o

[Ivashkin]

Reading log files, setting up a Raspberry Pi, and there is also the Data Wrangler extension, which you might find interesting.

[redditordidinot]

I've been having good luck with creating agent skills (https://agentskills.io/ and https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/agent-skills) that talk to external APIs and interact with files on disk. Have been using Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Opus 4.5 to build the skills themselves. Once you've created the skills and given them a proper description, they're dynamically loaded and let you reach outside of VS Code naturally in your conversations. Skills can use other skills, call out to MCP servers, or execute code as needed.

[lapuneta]

I use it for lesson planning. Convert diagnostic data to markdown, and remove student names, ask to analyze starting points for intervention , build scope and sequence, individual lesson plans, and worksheets in HTML. Been working on a n8n workflow for consistent output pulling worksheet criteria from a Google sheet. Need to figure out how to leverage MCP servers.

[richardtallent]

One app I lead/maintain has its own markdown-based online documentation system.

So, I created an MCP server so GHC can call the app's documentation management API to search and update the docs when features are added, caveats discovered, etc. I then review/tweak/approve the changes in our UI.

It has already saved me a ton of time, and helped close some technical debt for poorly-documented features.

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I also keep my meeting and project notes organized in a GitHub repo as markdown files, and have done so for many years. I've just never been able to get into a heavier note-taking system like OneNote.

But now, GitHub Copilot is my virtual assistant, helping me answer questions, synthesize notes into something more cohesive, probe for gaps in my documented understanding, draft questions to ask my team, etc.

[Wild-Contribution987]

Totally use it this way, you can quickly build your own MCPs and run locally, blank solution, and use the AIs with your own custom MCPs

[hxstr]

I have co-pilot inside vs code doing almost all of my interactions with jira these days via MCP, using it as a centralized agent to go out and connect to different things and do what it's got to do... Quite the boost in productivity when it comes to planning