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How to use LinkedIn with VS Code

You want LinkedIn inside VS Code so it can publish a product announcement, share a team update, promote an upcoming event, and repurpose approved company news — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your LinkedIn gateway

The gateway is the thing VS Code connects to, and it is where you decide which LinkedIn tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

  1. Create an Arcade account

    Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.

  2. Create an MCP Gateway and select your LinkedIn tools

    In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the LinkedIn tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.

  3. Copy your gateway URL

    Every client below needs it.

    https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>

Create a LinkedIn gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to VS Code

  1. Add the server

    VS Code 1.107.0 or higher. Command Palette → MCP: Add Server… → choose HTTP, paste your gateway URL, and name it something like mcp-arcade.

  2. Start it and authenticate

    Click Start next to the server in mcp.json or under Extensions → MCP Servers - Installed, then approve the Arcade sign-in and consent screens.

  3. Try it out

    Open the chat pane, switch to Agent mode, and ask it to use one of your LinkedIn tools.

Full VS Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these LinkedIn prompts

VS Code can now act on your LinkedIn account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Publishing a LinkedIn post is a public write, so require approval before the agent can do it. Use Contextual Access policies to apply that policy to LinkedIn post publishing and limit which authorized accounts may be used.

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