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MCP Beyond the Chat Window: Build Diagnostics in CI

The Microsoft Binlog MCP Server now exposes 38 tools for analyzing MSBuild binary logs, up from the original 15. This post demonstrates how those tools run unattended inside GitHub Actions CI pipelines using GitHub Agentic Workflows — automatically analyzing failed PR builds, posting plain-language root causes, and attaching inline fix suggestions. A walkthrough covers 23 previously undocumented tools grouped by function: targets/tasks, properties/evaluation, performance analysis, dependency graphs, and toolchain inspection. Evaluation data across 102 runs shows the Binlog MCP Server raises diagnosis quality scores from 3.25 to 3.68 while completing ~44% faster than a no-tools baseline, with a skills+MCP configuration achieving ~52% speed improvement and ~30% fewer input tokens.

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Jun 30•11m read time•From devblogs.microsoft.com
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