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Moon Banking MCP for VS Code

Connect VS Code (with GitHub Copilot Chat MCP support) to the Moon Banking MCP server.

GitHub Copilot's MCP support turns VS Code into a coding agent that can talk to live external data — not just whatever was in its training set. With the Moon Banking MCP plugged in, Copilot can answer questions about specific banks while you code: names, hostnames, country rank, community-rated scores across 14 categories (customer service, fees & pricing, digital experience, crypto friendliness, lending, …), and the user stories behind those scores.

Useful when you're integrating with a bank's API, validating hostnames in code, shipping a feature that displays real bank ratings, or just asking "which banks in Mexico score highest on digital experience?" in the middle of a session — Copilot will route the question through the MCP server and reply with citable data.

Recent versions of VS Code expose MCP servers to GitHub Copilot Chat via an mcp.json configuration. Both remote HTTP and stdio transports are supported.

Create .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace (or the user-level equivalent) and add:

{
  "servers": {
    "moonbanking": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.moonbanking.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Reload the window. The first time Copilot Chat invokes a Moon Banking tool, VS Code will pop a notification asking you to authenticate in your browser. After approval, the connection is reused for the rest of the session.

Alternative: self-hosted (API key)

{
  "servers": {
    "moonbanking-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@moonbanking/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "MOON_BANKING_API_KEY": "Bearer mb_sk_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Verify the connection

Open Copilot Chat and ask:

@workspace Using the Moon Banking MCP, find me three banks in France that score highly on digital experience.

If the tools are connected, Copilot will reply with tool-call traces visible in the chat view.

Troubleshooting

  • VS Code doesn't see the config. Confirm you are on a recent version of VS Code (MCP support shipped in late 2025 / 2026). Older versions don't honor mcp.json.
  • Auth never completes. Make sure VS Code is allowed to open external URLs (window.openUrl setting). Corporate proxies may block the OAuth callback.

Available tools

The Moon Banking MCP server exposes the following tools (identical across every client):

  • bank_getByHostname
  • bank_get
  • bank_getById
  • bank_semanticSearch
  • bankVote_get
  • country_get
  • country_getByCountryCode
  • story_get
  • story_getById
  • world_getOverview
  • search_get

Full descriptions live on the main MCP page.

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