perception for Zed

io.github.egorthinks/perception

Perception for AI agents: media QC asserts, image diff, OCR tiles, video/audio analysis, PDF, 3D.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install perception in Zed

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

{
  "context_servers": {
    "perception": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "perception-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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