WEBVTT 00:01.920 --> 00:08.680 One of the most exciting features inside windsurf are Cascade plugins, so you can find them here. 00:08.720 --> 00:10.120 Really really hidden. 00:10.160 --> 00:11.160 Hard to discover a bit. 00:11.160 --> 00:17.320 So if you click on this button, it's gonna open up the plugin store so you can think of it like a marketplace. 00:17.320 --> 00:20.880 And you can click here on individual options that are available. 00:20.880 --> 00:24.320 So for example we're going to take a look and see if we can find GitHub. 00:24.680 --> 00:27.440 So we're going to click here and see GitHub. 00:27.440 --> 00:30.520 We're going to notice here GitHub MCP server. 00:30.520 --> 00:34.160 So MCP this is the keyword that's very important. 00:34.160 --> 00:37.040 And this is the technology behind it that makes it possible. 00:37.040 --> 00:40.200 So MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. 00:40.200 --> 00:46.320 This is an open standard that defines how application can expose both context and tools to the LMS in 00:46.320 --> 00:47.240 a structured way. 00:47.520 --> 00:53.160 So you can think of it like a plugin system that allows us to extend the agents capabilities by connecting 00:53.160 --> 00:58.120 it to external data sources and services via a standardized interface. 00:58.400 --> 01:05.760 So an MCP can expose all these tools that you find here, like GitHub, notion, stripe, PayPal and 01:05.760 --> 01:12.520 many others and allows us to interact with them from within windsurf so we can, I don't know, fetch 01:12.560 --> 01:18.800 analytics data, send notifications or, you know, update or create an issue on GitHub or JIRA. 01:19.120 --> 01:21.800 So there are many possibilities where we can use this plugin. 01:21.800 --> 01:24.440 So let's take a look at how we can install GitHub. 01:24.760 --> 01:32.040 And first of all what I like is this store functionality makes the discovery of these plugins much, 01:32.040 --> 01:32.640 much easier. 01:32.640 --> 01:34.440 And also the installation is very easy. 01:34.440 --> 01:37.240 So I'm going to click here on GitHub and select install. 01:37.520 --> 01:41.760 And what we're going to need here is actually a personal access token for GitHub. 01:41.760 --> 01:43.760 So it's going to tell us exactly what we need. 01:44.000 --> 01:48.800 It would have been even better if this page would also generate a link telling us directly where you 01:48.800 --> 01:50.960 need to go, but that's also fine. 01:50.960 --> 01:53.320 So we're going to jump into GitHub next. 01:54.160 --> 01:57.920 So from GitHub what we're going to do is click here on the profile image. 01:57.920 --> 02:00.120 And first of all select settings. 02:00.600 --> 02:05.720 This is really hidden but I'm going to post a link directly to this page as a resource to this lecture. 02:05.960 --> 02:09.850 And we need to scroll a bit down until we find Developer settings. 02:10.570 --> 02:12.130 Click on Developer settings. 02:12.170 --> 02:16.570 I'm going to find here Personal Access Token and we're going to select your tokens. 02:16.570 --> 02:17.410 Classic. 02:17.970 --> 02:20.970 So let's generate a new token using the classic mode. 02:21.530 --> 02:23.010 I'm going to right here windsurf. 02:24.130 --> 02:28.810 I'm going to select only seven days so that this will expire very very soon. 02:29.410 --> 02:32.130 And what we will need here are a few things. 02:32.330 --> 02:34.570 For example we're going to need here the repo. 02:36.090 --> 02:38.210 And that should be enough in terms of the settings. 02:38.210 --> 02:42.250 So it's going to allow here full control of private repositories. 02:42.410 --> 02:43.010 It should be enough. 02:43.010 --> 02:44.770 I'm going to go ahead and generate a token. 02:45.570 --> 02:46.330 Copy it. 02:47.210 --> 02:48.410 Go back to windsurf. 02:48.890 --> 02:51.330 Paste it here and click on save. 02:52.250 --> 02:57.130 So now this has been enabled and we go here to configure. 02:57.130 --> 02:58.330 We can see our token. 02:58.330 --> 03:00.690 If we need to change it we can go through the process. 03:01.570 --> 03:04.770 And we can also see here the tools that are available to us. 03:05.570 --> 03:08.370 So this is how we can add a plugin in Visual Studio Code.