# Connect LFG Alarm to VS Code

AI agents · https://lfg.gm/agents/vs-code · Updated 2026-10-18

To connect LFG Alarm to VS Code with GitHub Copilot, run **MCP: Add Server**, choose **HTTP**, paste `https://mcp.lfg.gm` and sign in with your LFG Alarm account. Then ask Copilot's agent for an alarm while you work ("ring me when the build should be done"), and it rings on your phone. LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone and Android.

## Before you start

- **Get the LFG Alarm app on your phone** from Google Play or the App Store, and sign in. Your AI agent makes the alarms; the app is what rings them.
- Have your LFG Alarm sign-in handy. You will sign in once, on lfg.gm, to let VS Code use your account.

## Connect it

1. Open the Command Palette and run **MCP: Add Server**.
2. Choose **HTTP** and paste `https://mcp.lfg.gm`.
3. Name it `lfg-alarm` and choose **User** (every workspace) or **Workspace**.
4. Start the server when VS Code offers. A browser opens on lfg.gm: sign in with your LFG Alarm account and tap **Allow**.

Or add it to `.vscode/mcp.json` yourself:

```json
{ "servers": { "lfg-alarm": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.lfg.gm" } } }
```

These steps follow VS Code's own help pages. Menus move; if a label is different, look for where VS Code lets you add a custom MCP server or connector.

## Use it in a chat

Use Copilot Chat in agent mode and ask. VS Code asks before each tool runs unless you allow it.

It is for the moments you would otherwise watch a terminal: a CI run, a container build, a long test suite. Ask for a one-off alarm when it should be done and step away. If the team is waiting on the same release, make it a friends alarm and add them, so everyone's phone rings at once.

## Try it

Once it is connected, ask in plain words:

**Try this.** Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or another AI agent that has the LFG Alarm connector (https://mcp.lfg.gm), not into the LFG Alarm app. The person needs the LFG Alarm app on their phone.

> Use LFG Alarm to set a one-off alarm for 25 minutes from now called "CI should be green". Then tell me exactly when it goes off.

Why it works: A one-off from now for a wait in the editor, and the agent tells you the exact time.

More ideas: "Wake me at 7:00 every weekday and call it Standup", "Make a friends alarm for this Friday at 4:00pm called Release and add my friends [username] and [username]", or "List my alarms". Today your AI agent can set time alarms, price alarms (a target price or a percent move), post alarms (an X account posting what you describe, or a Twitch or YouTube channel going live), event alarms from a Luma or Partiful link, and anything alarms (a private link any system can ring); list, change, turn on or off and delete them; add your friends or a whole group; pick a sound or look from the library; and add your own picture, song or voice. Wallet and trader alarms are made in the app. Each alarm it makes comes back with its link, a share picture with a QR code and a message ready to send. See [Using LFG Alarm from your AI agent](https://lfg.gm/wiki/ai-agents) for everything it can do.

## If it does not work

- **MCP servers are greyed out.** On Copilot Business or Enterprise, an organisation admin has to turn on the policy **MCP servers in Copilot**. It is off by default.
- **Old VS Code.** MCP needs VS Code 1.99 or later.
- **Still stuck?** Remove the connector and add it again, or write to us from the [support page](https://lfg.gm/support).

## Disconnect

Remove the LFG Alarm connector in VS Code's settings. Your alarms stay in your LFG Alarm account and keep ringing.

## Questions

### Does it work with the free Copilot plan?
Yes. Every Copilot plan can use MCP servers.

### User or Workspace?
**User** makes LFG Alarm available in every workspace; **Workspace** writes it to that project's `.vscode/mcp.json`, which teammates would see if it is committed.

### Can a build ring the alarm when it actually finishes?
Yes, with an anything alarm, made in the app or by asking Copilot: it gives you a private web address, and a `curl -X POST` to it as the build's last step rings your phone. See [How to make any app, script or feed ring your phone](https://lfg.gm/webhook-alarm).

### Does LFG Alarm see my other chats?
No. LFG Alarm only receives what VS Code sends when it uses LFG Alarm's tools.

## Learn more

- [What is LFG Alarm?](https://lfg.gm/wiki/what-is-lfg-alarm) and [your first alarm](https://lfg.gm/wiki/your-first-alarm)
- [Time alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/time-alarms), [Friends and groups](https://lfg.gm/wiki/friends-and-groups) and [Sharing and reach](https://lfg.gm/wiki/sharing-and-reach)
- [The fastest way to make a group alarm](https://lfg.gm/group-alarms)
- [Connect LFG Alarm to another AI app](https://lfg.gm/agents)

## Sources and further reading

- [VS Code docs: Use MCP servers](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/mcp-servers)
- [VS Code docs: MCP configuration reference](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/reference/mcp-configuration)

LFG Alarm is not affiliated with VS Code.

## Keep exploring

- [Connect LFG Alarm to your AI app](https://lfg.gm/agents.md): The LFG Alarm MCP server: set alarms from ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, OpenClaw and more, and they ring on your phone.
- [Connect LFG Alarm to ChatGPT](https://lfg.gm/agents/chatgpt.md): Add LFG Alarm to ChatGPT with the address mcp.lfg.gm, sign in once, and ask ChatGPT to set alarms that ring on your phone.
- [Connect LFG Alarm to Claude](https://lfg.gm/agents/claude.md): Add LFG Alarm to Claude as a custom connector, sign in once, and ask Claude to set alarms that ring on your phone. Claude Code too.
- [Connect LFG Alarm to Grok](https://lfg.gm/agents/grok.md): Add LFG Alarm to Grok as a custom connector, sign in once, and ask Grok to set alarms that ring on your phone.
- [Connect LFG Alarm to Gemini](https://lfg.gm/agents/gemini.md): Add LFG Alarm to Gemini as a custom app, sign in once, and ask Gemini to set alarms that ring on your phone.
- [Connect LFG Alarm to Perplexity](https://lfg.gm/agents/perplexity.md): Add LFG Alarm to Perplexity as a custom remote connector, sign in once, and ask Perplexity to set alarms.

## About LFG Alarm

LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, does the watching and the waking.

- Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app
- Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085
- Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words.
- Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt