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Big Brain for Zed

io.github.jzhao234/big-brain

Plain-markdown second brain for you and your AI: notes, projects, tasks, search, links.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Big Brain in Zed

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

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{
  "context_servers": {
    "big-brain": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@jzhao234/big-brain"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BIG_BRAIN_VAULT": "<BIG_BRAIN_VAULT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

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