How to Check International Team Holidays with Copilot
Check international holidays in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Plan distributed team schedules.
Tool
Copilot fetches international holiday data and generates configuration files your scheduling tools can consume. Pull holidays for your team's countries, output JSON arrays for sprint planning systems, and create TypeScript holiday lookup utilities -- integrating multi-country calendar awareness into your project management infrastructure.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Public Holidays tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Get public holidays for the US and India for 2026"
- Copilot returns the holiday lists for both countries
- Ask: "Generate a JSON config with these holidays for our scheduling system"
- Integrate the holiday data into your project configuration
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Public Holidays tool
Fetch public holidays for US, UK, and India for 2026 and output them as a JSON array I can use in our sprint planning tool.
Tips
- Great for generating holiday config files for scheduling applications
- Ask Copilot to create TypeScript types for the holiday data structure
- Use the output to seed your team calendar or project management tool