Unleashing the Full Potential of Metals

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Metals is the Scala LSP with Bloop/BSP, Scala CLI and Bazel integrations; troubleshooting uses logs, LSP trace JSON, presentation-compiler reports and commands to reconnect, restart or clean the build server. Features shown include the code-structure tree, worksheets, eight inlay-hint types, semantic highlighting and a test explorer. An MCP-based Model Context Protocol lets LLM agents run tools (compile, test, search, inspect) to reduce hallucination, and live scalafix generation turns simple deprecation fixes into working rules.

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1. 0:00Introduction and agenda
2. 3:52Debugging Metals issues
3. 10:02Mastering build servers
4. 15:02Hidden gems and features
5. 23:48Model context protocol
6. 31:09Scalafix rule generation
7. 35:48Future directions and Q&A

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