Use PicPrep with VS Code (GitHub Copilot).

Connect VS Code (GitHub Copilot) to PicPrep on your computer. It takes about two minutes.

Available at launch. The connector, picprep-mcp, is not published yet, so the commands on this page will not work until PicPrep launches. The steps are the ones you will follow then.

What you need

PicPrep installed, and opened once. Get PicPrep
VS Code (GitHub Copilot) installed.
Node.js 18 or newer, for the npx command.

Steps

Open PicPrep, with the project you want to work on.
.vscode/mcp.json in a workspace, or the user mcp.json (command palette: "MCP: Open User Configuration"). VS Code needs "type": "stdio", and its key is servers, not mcpServers:
```
{
  "servers": {
    "picprep": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "picprep-mcp"] }
  }
}
```
Or: code --add-mcp '{"name":"picprep","type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","picprep-mcp"]}'. Skills: copy the folders under skills/ into a workspace's .github/skills/ or .agents/skills/.
Restart VS Code (GitHub Copilot), or reload its MCP servers, so it picks up the new one.

In a file path, ~ is your home folder: /Users/you on macOS, /home/you on Linux, C:\Users\you on Windows.

Check it works

Ask VS Code (GitHub Copilot):

What's in my PicPrep project?

It should answer with your project's posts and slides. From then on, what it changes and what it asks you arrive in PicPrep's Assistant panel, with a count on the Assistant button.

PicPrep's Assistant panel beside the Board: a question from the assistant with two choices, and one change with its reason and the buttons Go to it, Reply, Reject and Keep.

Or check from a terminal. This says where the connector looks, whether PicPrep is running, and what it would start:

npx -y picprep-mcp --check

First things to try

Look at the photos in my PicPrep project and pick the keepers for one post.

Lay out a carousel for Instagram from the keepers.

Make a version of this post for X.

What it can do

See your projects, posts and slides, and what the window shows.
Make changes: pick photos for a post, split, stack and arrange slides. Each one is marked as the assistant's, with its reason, and can be undone on its own.
Ask you a question. It waits in PicPrep until you answer.

What stays yours

You Keep or Reject every change, one by one or all at once.
It never exports, deletes, or changes your settings or your licence. It can only offer.
You can pause it at any time from the Assistant button.

Privacy

The connector talks only to PicPrep on this computer (127.0.0.1). PicPrep uploads nothing.

What VS Code (GitHub Copilot) looks at, such as descriptions and pictures of the window, goes to VS Code (GitHub Copilot) under its own terms. Pause viewing when something on screen should stay private.

If it does not work

PicPrep is not running: The connector starts PicPrep the first time the assistant uses a tool. If it says PicPrep is not installed, open PicPrep once yourself, then ask again.
It cannot see your photos: The assistant works on projects PicPrep already has. Open the folder in PicPrep first; adding folders is yours alone.
It can look but not change anything: Looking works without a licence. Changes need a subscription or an active trial: start the trial in PicPrep, under Settings, Licence.
The tools look out of date: The tools come from the PicPrep app, not from the connector, so update PicPrep. The assistant is told when the list has changed; restart it if it still shows the old one.

Removing it

Take the picprep entry back out of the settings you added it to (or remove the plugin or extension you installed), then restart VS Code (GitHub Copilot). Nothing else was installed, and your projects are untouched.

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