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What's Running for Zed

io.github.stcmain/whats-running-mcp

Live OS ground truth for agents: running agent sessions, listening ports, daemons, system load.

client:Zed transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install What's Running in Zed

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

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{
  "context_servers": {
    "whats-running-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "whats-running-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WR_AGENT_PATTERNS": "<WR_AGENT_PATTERNS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

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