Scandurra: Zed supports installing MCP servers via binaries or its extension store
Antonio Scandurra · Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra · May 7, 2025 · at 27:51
Antonio Scandurra, co-founder of Zed, explains how the code editor integrates with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to power autonomous coding agents.
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“Like one is you can sort of change your configuration setting point, you know, point to an MCP binary and you know, Zed just runs that binary. That's one path. The other path that I'm also really excited about is, like, going through our extension store.”
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