Gadwal
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Connect VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

One click adds Gadwal to your VS Code user profile.

Before you start

  1. Open Gadwal and click AI & MCP in the sidebar of the Connections window (⌘2). The same page is also a tab in Gadwal › Settings (⌘,).
  2. Turn on MCP server. The Address line shows http://127.0.0.1:55183/mcp (you can change the port below it). The server only listens on this Mac.
  3. Check each connection's AI level: Off, Read-only, Ask before write or Full. Production connections start at Read-only. The AI only sees connections that aren't Off. See AI levels and hidden columns.
  4. Keep Gadwal open. The server runs inside the app, so AI tools stop working when you quit it.

AI tools need an active trial or the lifetime unlock. After the trial, turning the server on opens Unlock, and a server that is still running answers every tool call with a message saying so.

In Gadwal

Scroll to the VS Code row under AI Apps on the AI & MCP page (below Cursor). Its button reads Install, and How to connect under it lists the same steps as this page.

The Home window's AI & MCP page in dark mode: a sidebar with Connections, AI & MCP (Off), Backups and Settings, and the page “Connect your AI apps” with the MCP server switch, the address http://127.0.0.1:55183/mcp, port 55183, and AI Apps rows for Claude Desktop (Install), Claude Code (Copy Command), Codex (Copy config.toml Block) and Cursor (Install), each with “How to connect”.
The AI & MCP page (⌘2). Each AI app has a row with its status, its button and “How to connect”; the VS Code row is further down, below Cursor.
The Home window's AI & MCP page in light mode: a sidebar with Connections, AI & MCP (Off), Backups and Settings, and the page “Connect your AI apps” with the MCP server switch, the address http://127.0.0.1:55183/mcp, port 55183, and AI Apps rows for Claude Desktop (Install), Claude Code (Copy Command), Codex (Copy config.toml Block) and Cursor (Install), each with “How to connect”.
The AI & MCP page (⌘2). Each AI app has a row with its status, its button and “How to connect”; the VS Code row is further down, below Cursor.

Install

  1. On the AI & MCP page, under AI Apps, scroll down and click Install on the VS Code row (below Cursor).
  2. Gadwal creates a token and opens VS Code with an MCP install link. VS Code shows the gadwal server.
  3. Click Install in VS Code. It is saved in your user profile’s mcp.json as an http server (MCP: Open User Configuration shows it).
  4. Open Copilot Chat in Agent mode: the tools button lists the gadwal tools.

What VS Code saves

{
"name": "gadwal",
"type": "http",
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:55183/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <token>" }
}