VS Code MCP Setup on Mac
Give VS Code's AI (GitHub Copilot in agent mode) direct access to your Mac apps — Mail, Calendar, Contacts, iMessage, Teams, Slack and 233 tools. LMCP writes the VS Code MCP configuration automatically when you install it.
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LMCP··5 min readWhat this lets you do
With MCP support in VS Code, Copilot’s agent mode can call tools that run on your Mac. LMCP provides those tools locally — no API keys, no OAuth — so from the chat panel you can ask things like:
- “Summarize the emails about this project and add follow-ups to Reminders”
- “What did the team say in Slack about the release?”
- “Schedule a review with Marco on Thursday afternoon”
Setup
- Download LMCP and open it — it detects VS Code and writes the MCP entry automatically.
- In VS Code, make sure MCP is enabled in Settings (
chat.mcp.enabled) — it is on by default in recent builds. - Open the Chat panel and switch to Agent mode. The LMCP tools appear in the tools picker; ask anything about your Mail, Calendar or Teams.
Chat and Edit modes do not expose MCP tools — only Agent mode does. macOS prompts for each permission (Calendar, Contacts, Full Disk Access for Mail/iMessage) the first time it’s needed.
Privacy
VS Code talks to LMCP over a local socket. Your data is read on-device and never uploaded; anything the agent wants to send is preview-and-confirm.