Microsoft launched an official ADO MCP Server! 🎉🎉🎉

[Tiberriver256]

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Wanted to share some initial thoughts:

Awesome!

I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the popularity of this server. A lot of people have helped me out, but I love the idea of Microsoft pushing this way faster than I could.

Do I deprecate this?

Seems like they are behind this project in some areas... Seems like it would be best to table this thing and contribute to theirs to pull all our forces around one central effort.

Opportunity to explore

Their approach seems pretty much the same as the approach I took with this server. Use MCP as an API wrapper. This project proved to me two things in that regard:

1. You can get pretty far with that very quickly
2. You also blow out context windows pretty quick that way

Is there a better way? 🤔 Maybe this frees me up to pivot this into experimental ways of designing MCP interactions. I feel like it may be better to think about it being closer to UI design. Hide all the API complexity and expose very specific fields/context windows/data/etc. for very specific use-cases.