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Zed LayerHop Prompt/swap_assistant

How to: Zed LayerHop swap_assistant

client:Zed transport:streamable-http prompt:swap_assistant

Add LayerHop to Zed

  1. 01

    Open ~/.config/zed/settings.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "context_servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.layerhop.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
  1. 02

    Save the file and restart Zed.

  2. 03

    swap_assistant is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — Zed will not call it for you.

  3. 04

    If it does not appear, check that LayerHop is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.

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

Set these first

LayerHop will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Zed.

  • LAYERHOP_API_KEY
  • LAYERHOP_INTEGRATOR

Same prompt, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 18 October 2026. A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.