Hi All,
I can’t believe its been 22 days since I last posted! 
I do however have a good excuse 
I was on honeymoon on the beautiful Madeira Island Portugal. 
Before leaving I was a bit worried that it might break my new habit of learning Make Automation every week. Would I get lazy and give up!! Well the good news for me is that after the break I am more motivated than ever 
While on holidays although I was not actively trying to learn anything I noticed that I was having lots of ideas about automations and AI in general 
I am 90% (make that 100%, I need to commit!) sure that my next automation project is to build an AI Assistant that is going to help me with my reminders!! I am currently under reminder overload 
. I have so many on my phone that I pretty much ignore them and then end up forgetting important things (Of course not Mother’s day in Ireland 
).
MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)
Outside of my honeymoon I was taking a look at MCP servers. MCP servers are lightweight programs that provide structured access to tools and data sources for AI models. It acts as a bridge between AI applications and various services, allowing models to interact with external systems in a standardized way.
I do a lot of software development using Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Github Copilot for AI assisted coding. I saw that there was an MCP server integration with Github Copilot so I tried it out.
Something I do not like doing is going to Jira Cloud and logging time on various Jira tickets. I set up the atlassian-mcp server in VS Code and it was great. It allows me to use Github Copilot in Agent mode to log time on Jira tasks from within VS Code using natural language. For example
Please log 1h on Jira ticket PRJ1-254 for Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week
I can also create/delete Jira tasks etc. I see they have just added AI Agents to Make.com so its possible to have Agents use all of these MCP servers if set up and configured. I am looking forward to trying that out!
Anyway thats my update,
Brian