Let Copilot in VS Code check and update your docs as you write code
Search and read your knowledge base from Copilot Chat
Overview
Connect VS Code to your HelpDocs knowledge base and Copilot can work on your docs alongside your code. Over our MCP server, it can search and read your articles, so you can ask whether a new feature is covered yet, or which articles still mention the endpoint you just renamed.
It can write too. Ask Copilot to draft an article from the implementation in front of you, and edits to published articles go in as working copies until somebody publishes them.
Add HelpDocs to .vscode/mcp.json and the whole team picks it up from the repo. Everyone still signs in with their own HelpDocs login the first time, so no keys end up in version control.
What you can do
- Search and read your knowledge base from Copilot Chat
- Find the articles a code change makes out of date
- Draft new articles from the feature you just built
- Commit the config so your whole team gets HelpDocs, with no credentials in the repo
Setting it up
- Turn on MCP access in Settings > AI in HelpDocs
- In VS Code, run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette and choose HTTP
- Paste the HelpDocs MCP URL and name it HelpDocs
- Trust the server and authorize VS Code to use your knowledge base
Requirements
- A recent version of VS Code with GitHub Copilot signed in
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- Ada Point Ada's AI agent at your knowledge base so it answers from your published docs
- Aide Get customer insights, automate support operations, improve agent & team efficiency, and train AI chatbots in one place
Start building your documentation infrastructure.
Create, organize, translate, and connect your docs without the admin sprawl of a support suite.
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