They wanted big local database imports to show progress and a finish time, and to stop the machine sleeping. Copilot built exactly that, plus an MCP server so it writes better queries.
Result Plus an MCP server for better queries
“I wanted progress, estimated completion time, and I wanted it to prevent my machine from going to sleep during the import.”
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Used Copilot to make a basic MCP server for a large database, so it could write better queries. Then had it write a MySQL importer to replace the standard client for the large databases they often import locally.
The importer shows progress and an estimated completion time, and stops the machine from going to sleep mid-import.
Write a command-line tool that imports a large MySQL dump file into my local database. Show a progress bar with percent done, speed and estimated time remaining, keep the computer awake until it finishes, resume cleanly if interrupted, and print a summary at the end.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.