Zed openstates mcp server Prompt/openstates_bill_research
How to: Zed openstates mcp server openstates_bill_research
Add openstates mcp server to Zed
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Open ~/.config/zed/settings.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"context_servers": {
"openstates-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://openstates.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart Zed.
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openstates_bill_research is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — Zed will not call it for you.
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If it does not appear, check that openstates mcp server 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
openstates mcp server will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Zed.
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OPENSTATES_API_KEY -
OPENSTATES_DAILY_REQUEST_BUDGET -
OPENSTATES_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS -
OPENSTATES_TOTAL_REQUEST_BUDGET_MS -
MCP_LOG_LEVEL
Same prompt, other clients
Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 24 September 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.