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Synapse RMCP for Zed

ai.dinglebear/synapse

Host, Docker, Compose, SSH, logs, ZFS, and file operations over MCP and CLI.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Synapse RMCP in Zed

~/.config/zed/settings.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json

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{
  "context_servers": {
    "synapse": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@dinglebear/synapse"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SYNAPSE_HOME": "<SYNAPSE_HOME>",
        "SYNAPSE_HOSTS_CONFIG": "<SYNAPSE_HOSTS_CONFIG>",
        "SYNAPSE_CONFIG_FILE": "<SYNAPSE_CONFIG_FILE>",
        "SYNAPSE_RMCP_VERSION": "<SYNAPSE_RMCP_VERSION>",
        "SYNAPSE_RMCP_REPO": "<SYNAPSE_RMCP_REPO>",
        "SYNAPSE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL": "<SYNAPSE_RMCP_RELEASE_BASE_URL>",
        "RUST_LOG": "<RUST_LOG>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Merge this into your existing settings object — do not replace the file. Zed docs

Synapse RMCP in other clients