How to Use the Depreciation Calculator MCP in VS Code Copilot

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Share financial tools across your team in VS Code Copilot.

The `calculate_depreciation` tool standardizes how your engineering team computes asset lifespans. This MCP integrates directly into your shared workspace, giving every developer access to the same financial formulas. Your team can instantly verify calculations within Copilot Chat. This eliminates discrepancies between different developer implementations of declining balance math.

Automate asset schedule generation.

Generating depreciation tables for testing is simple with our automated math engine. This MCP allows your developer environment to spin up accurate schedules on demand. Your agent uses the tool to generate clean tables for straight-line or sum-of-the-years' digits methods. You can commit these outputs directly to your test suites.

Accelerate financial application development.

Accelerating financial application development is straightforward when you can query a reference math implementation. This MCP provides a reliable standard that your team can query at any time. Developers can compare their custom code outputs against the tool's calculations. It acts as an on-demand auditor, reducing QA cycles for financial reporting features.

Setup guide

Set up Depreciation Calculator MCP in VS Code Copilot

Prerequisites

VS Code 1.99 or later with GitHub Copilot extension
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open MCP configuration

Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P) and run "MCP: Add Server". Select HTTP (Streamable) as the server type. VS Code will create .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace.
2

Add the Depreciation Calculator MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into your .vscode/mcp.json. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Switch to Agent mode

Open Copilot Chat (Cmd+Shift+I / Ctrl+Shift+I) and switch to Agent mode using the dropdown. MCP tools are only available in Agent mode — they do not appear in Edit or Ask modes.
4

Verify the connection

In the Copilot Chat input, type # to list available tools. You should see the Depreciation Calculator tools listed. Try asking: "List my recent Depreciation Calculator transactions" and Copilot will invoke them automatically.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "depreciation-calculator-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about Depreciation Calculator MCP in VS Code Copilot

Commit the configuration to your repository in the .vscode/mcp.json file. Every team member with VS Code 1.96 or newer will automatically get access to the tools.

Yes, this MCP runs within your team's existing security boundaries, making it suitable for SOC 2 compliant development setups.

Your agent can compare your application's calculations with the tool's outputs to pinpoint rounding errors or logic bugs in your code.

You need to provide the initial asset cost, the estimated salvage value, and the useful lifespan in years.

Your asset costs, useful lifespans, and scrap value estimates are calculated locally on your workstation. No financial data ever leaves your secure environment.

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