How to Schedule Releases Around Holidays with Copilot
Check release dates against holidays in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Safe deployment scheduling.
Tool
Copilot checks release dates against holiday calendars and helps you build deployment safety checks into your pipeline. Verify proposed dates, generate holiday-aware release calendar configs, and create validation functions blocking risky deployments -- adding holiday awareness to your CI/CD 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: "Is 2026-11-26 a holiday in the US?"
- Copilot checks and returns the result
- Ask: "Get all US holidays in November 2026 for release planning"
- Integrate the holiday check into your CI/CD pipeline configuration
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Public Holidays tool
Check if any of these dates are holidays in the US or Canada: 2026-11-11, 2026-11-26, 2026-11-27. I need to pick one for a release.
Tips
- Add holiday checks to your release automation scripts
- Generate a holiday-aware release calendar as a config file
- Use the API programmatically to validate release dates in CI/CD pipelines