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How to use Microsoft Users with VS Code

You want Microsoft Users inside VS Code so it can map an organization's reporting lines, route a request to the right manager, assemble a team roster, and verify the agent's organizational identity — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Microsoft Users gateway

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

Create an Arcade account

Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
Create an MCP Gateway and select your Microsoft Users tools

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

Every client below needs it.
```
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
```

Create a Microsoft Users gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to VS Code

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.
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.
Try it out

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

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

Try these directory prompts

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

Protect employee profiles and reporting lines with per-user authorization. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can look up a user's manager without exposing broader directory data.

How to use Microsoft Users with VS Code

Create your Microsoft Users gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Microsoft Users tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to VS Code

Add the server

Start it and authenticate

Try it out

Try these directory prompts

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