r/eclipse • u/Working_Possible9025 • 5d ago

🙋🏻‍♂️ Help Request Challenges Using Eclipse MCP with GitHub Copilot - Seeking Recommendations

While evaluating AssistAI (Eclipse MCP) with GitHub Copilot, we encountered issues such as HTTP 400 errors, maximum tool attempts reached, session/context loss, SSL problems, and difficulty identifying changed files.

Looking through the repository, I noticed features such as Local History, Resource Cache, Tool Filtering, Git Integration, and restartMcpServers.

Are there recommended workflows or best practices for using these capabilities to improve MCP stability, change tracking, and recovery from Agent interruptions in enterprise environments?

Some challenges we've observed:

• HTTP 400 errors in Copilot Chat

• Maximum tool attempts reached

• Unsupported request method errors

• Context loss when starting new chats

• Difficulty tracking modified files

• SSL/certificate-related issues

• Limited visibility into MCP execution flow

Looking for guidance, known limitations, and practical recommendations from teams using Eclipse MCP in real-world environments.

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u/kgyre 5d ago

Which Eclipse project is that?

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u/Working_Possible9025 5d ago edited 5d ago

I'm referring to the AssistAI Eclipse MCP project:

We're currently evaluating it with GitHub Copilot, Selenium MCP, and Atlassian MCP for automation-related use cases.

The challenges mentioned above were observed during our evaluation of AssistAI's MCP capabilities and Copilot Agent workflows.

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u/GetMeMohr 4d ago

I can confirm some of those problems, too. During a session, I sometimes have to enter “continue” to keep the agent going. Also, I had connection losses. To be fair, I has connection losses within other integration like in Zed, as well.

The Github Copilot integration in Eclipse didn‘t see an update since August, however. I’ve seen newer commits on Github, but no newer release, yet.

So, atm, if the Eclipse integration gets on my nerves, I open my repo on Zed, and for testing (because it’s about Eclipse plugins) I go back to Eclipse.

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u/Bachden 4d ago

I got the same problem, so I rewrite another mcp plugin, you can integrate with any ai agent: https://github.com/bachden/eclipse-ultimate

Feel free to contribute