🤖 AI Coding Assistants Comparison

Tool Type Best For MCP Support
GitHub Copilot IDE Extension Code completion, chat, agent mode, edit mode ✅ Full
Rubber Ducky Standalone Agent Complex multi-step tasks, terminal/browser ✅ Full
Cline/Roo-Cline VSCode Extension Autonomous coding, file creation, terminal ✅ Full (GHCP LM API)
M365 Copilot Web/Teams General queries, document analysis ✅ Limited

✅ Approved for Microsoft Code

  • GitHub Copilot (VS Code / Visual Studio)
  • Rubber Ducky (aka.ms/ducky)
  • Cline/Roo-Cline with GHCP LM API
  • MCP servers from aka.ms/1mcp

⛔ Not Approved / Check First

  • ChatGPT (public)
  • Claude (public)
  • Cline with 3P API keys
  • ai-coder-tools MCP
  • Any tool not on aka.ms/ai4dev