MCP Servers defined in ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json not loaded via SDK

[DonJayamanne]

I think mcp servers should be loaded from standard locations just as agents/skills are loaded without the clients of the SDK having to specify anything.

Just as with Custom Agents, i think we might also need an API to get the list of MCP servers known to the SDK.
This way users of teh SDK don't end up registering duplicate MCP servers.

[github-actions]

Thanks for opening this issue! 👍

I've labeled this as an enhancement request affecting all SDK implementations (sdk/dotnet, sdk/go, sdk/nodejs, sdk/python).

This is a reasonable feature request to have the SDK automatically discover and load MCP servers from the standard ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json location, similar to how agents/skills are already handled.

The team will review this request and determine the best approach for implementation across all SDKs.

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