How to Create an Onboarding Series with Copilot
Create onboarding videos in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Developer tool onboarding series.
Tool
Copilot integrates video production into your development workflow, making it practical to produce technical marketing videos, developer tutorials, and product release announcements without leaving your IDE. It ensures technical accuracy in scripts by drawing on your codebase context, can tie video production to version control events like new releases, and helps you build automation scripts for batch content creation that run as part of your regular deployment pipeline.
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 Video Production tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Create a treatment for a developer onboarding video series"
- Review and adjust the series structure and scripts
- Generate the onboarding video series
- Ask Copilot to build an automation that regenerates videos when docs change
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Video Production tool
Create a 3-part onboarding series for our API: authentication, making your first request, and handling webhooks.
Tips
- Align onboarding videos with your quickstart documentation
- Copilot can ensure code examples in videos match your actual API
- Automate video regeneration when your API changes