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Setting Up JetBrains with GitHub Copilot and AEM MCP setup-jetbrains-copilot

Last update: Mon Mar 23 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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  • Experience Manager as a Cloud Service

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Follow these steps to connect GitHub Copilot in a JetBrains IDE (such as IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, or PyCharm) to AEM’s MCP servers.

  1. Open GitHub Copilot Chat in your JetBrains IDE by clicking the GitHub Copilot Chat icon on the right side of the editor.

    The JetBrains IDE with GitHub Copilot Chat open.

  2. Click the settings icon in the Copilot Chat panel to open the MCP configuration.

    The GitHub Copilot Chat panel with the settings icon highlighted.

  3. In Settings, navigate to Tools > GitHub Copilot > Model Context Protocol (MCP) and click Configure to open the mcp.json configuration file.

    The JetBrains Settings dialog showing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration under GitHub Copilot.

  4. Add one or more AEM MCP server URLs to the mcp.json file. For example:

    code language-json 
    {
  "servers": {
    "aem": {
      "url": "https://mcp.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/mcp/content"
    }
  }
}

    The mcp.json configuration file with the AEM MCP server URL.

  5. Save the file. GitHub Copilot detects the new server configuration automatically and shows a Start action.

    The mcp.json file showing the configured AEM server with detected tools.

  6. Click the Start action and When prompted, sign in with your Adobe ID to complete the authentication flow.

  7. You can review and manage discovered tools by clicking the tools indicator that appears in the Copilot Chat panel. Optionally, enable or disable individual tools.

    The Configure Tools dialog showing available AEM MCP tools.

  8. Use GitHub Copilot Chat to invoke AEM tools as part of your development or content workflows.

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