Free tool for VS Code

Copilot can read the whole web from your machine.

Unblocked is a free desktop app that runs a real browser on your computer. Connect it to VS Code and Copilot's agent mode can fetch pages that normally refuse automated tools — fully rendered, from your own connection.

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Built for agent mode

Copilot's agent gets a fetch tool that returns real, rendered pages — useful when it's reading docs mid-task.

Works across every workspace

Installed at user level, so it's there in every folder you open rather than per-project.

Best error messages of the bunch

VS Code shows a clear indicator in Chat when a tool can't be reached, so you always know whether the app is running.

Three ways in, all the same result

Clicking the VS Code tile in Unblocked does the first one for you.

1

One click

Unblocked opens VS Code through its official install link and VS Code asks you to confirm. Nothing to copy.

2

From a terminal

If you have the code command on your PATH, one line does it.

3

By hand

Run MCP: Open User Configuration and paste the server in yourself.

Terminal

code --add-mcp '{"name":"unblocked","type":"http","url":"http://127.0.0.1:8484/mcp"}'

User configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "unblocked": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8484/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Note the key is servers here — VS Code uses a different name from the other editors.

Try it in Copilot

Switch Chat to Agent mode and paste this in.

Use Unblocked to fetch https://www.google.com/search?q=unblocking+api and list the top 10 results.

VS Code questions

GitHub Copilot in agent mode. Open the Chat view, switch the mode to Agent, and the Unblocked tools appear in its tool list alongside the built-in ones.

In your user-level mcp.json. The quickest way to find it is the MCP: Open User Configuration command — VS Code deliberately documents it by command rather than by path, because the location moves with your profile.

Some systems don't register the vscode: handler. Use the terminal command below instead, or paste the JSON into your user configuration — all three do the same thing.

Yes. Insiders uses its own handler and its own config, so run code-insiders --add-mcp with the same JSON, or add it through the Insiders MCP configuration.

Also works with

One app, all your assistants. Connect as many as you like.

Claude

One click, or a bundled extension

Cursor

One-click install link

Zed

We edit your settings for you

Give Copilot a real browser.

Free, open to everyone, and set up in about a minute. No account, no API key, no credit card.

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