feat(ai-config): mcp config add assistant choices

[Marina-L-Stoyanova]

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Description

enhance MCP configuration for multiple coding assistants

Related Issue

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Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update
• Refactoring / code cleanup
• Build / CI configuration change

Affected Packages

• igniteui-cli (packages/cli)
• @igniteui/cli-core (packages/core)
• @igniteui/angular-templates (packages/igx-templates)
• @igniteui/angular-schematics (packages/ng-schematics)
• @igniteui/mcp-server (packages/igniteui-mcp)

Checklist

• I have tested my changes locally (npm run test)
• I have built the project successfully (npm run build)
• I have run the linter (npm run lint)
• I have added/updated tests as needed
• My changes do not introduce new warnings or errors

Additional Context

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates the AI configuration flow to make MCP server configuration assistant-agnostic (VS Code vs Cursor/Claude Code/etc.) and to separate MCP configuration from AI “skills and instructions” generation.

Changes:

• Adds assistant-specific MCP config targets (path + root key) and updates MCP writer to support multiple assistants.
• Extends both the CLI command and Angular schematic to accept/prompt for “assistant(s)” separately from “agent(s)”.
• Updates/extends unit and schematic tests and schema prompts/messages to reflect the split between MCP configuration and skills/instructions.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 6 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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File	Description
spec/unit/ai-config-spec.ts	Updates CLI unit tests for new assistant/agent prompting and MCP behavior.
packages/ng-schematics/src/cli-config/index.ts	Updates schematic logic to configure MCP per selected assistant(s).
packages/ng-schematics/src/cli-config/index_spec.ts	Adds schematic tests for assistant-specific MCP output paths and root keys.
packages/ng-schematics/src/cli-config/ai-config-schema.json	Adds assistant option (prompt + enum) and updates agent prompt messaging.
packages/core/util/mcp-config.ts	Introduces assistant MCP config map and changes addMcpServers to be assistant-based.
packages/cli/lib/commands/ai-config.ts	Adds assistant prompting/selection and routes MCP config generation accordingly.

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packages/cli/lib/commands/ai-config.ts:143

• The handler configures MCP servers via configureMCP(assistants) and then calls configure(agents) which also configures MCP (defaulting to VS Code). This causes duplicate writes and ignores the user’s assistant selection (e.g. selecting --assistant none or choosing “None” interactively still results in VS Code MCP configuration). Pass the selected assistants into configure(...) and/or refactor so MCP is configured exactly once and respects an explicit “none” selection.

		if (!assistants?.length) {
			assistants = await promptForAssistant();
		}
		if (!agents?.length) {
			agents = await promptForAgents();
		}

		GoogleAnalytics.post({
			t: "event",
			ec: "$ig ai-config",
			ea: `agent: ${agents.join(", ") || "none"}`
		});

		if (assistants.length) {
			configureMCP(assistants);
		}

		if (!agents.length) {
			Util.log("No AI configuration selected. Skipping.");
			return;
		}
		await configure(agents);
	}

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[coveralls]

coverage: 87.329% (+0.1%) from 87.227% — mstoyanova/update-mcp-config-agent-agnostic-restore into master

[damyanpetev]

Or, have we considered naming this something else, like --mcp?

[damyanpetev]

• Changelog + Readme