Zed MCP Setup on Mac
Give Zed's Assistant direct access to your Mac apps — Mail, Calendar, Contacts, iMessage, Teams, Slack and 215+ tools through MCP context servers. LMCP configures Zed automatically when you install it.
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LMCP··5 min readWhat this lets you do
Zed supports MCP context servers in its Assistant, so it can act on your real apps through LMCP — locally, with no API keys or OAuth:
- “Summarize my unread emails”
- “What’s on my calendar this afternoon?”
- “What did the engineering channel say in Teams today?”
Setup
- Download LMCP and run the installer — it detects Zed and adds LMCP as a context server automatically.
- In Zed, open the Assistant panel; the LMCP tools are available as an MCP context server.
- Ask the Assistant about your Mail, Calendar or Teams. macOS prompts for each permission the first time it’s needed.
Privacy
Zed talks to LMCP over a local socket on your Mac. Your data is read on-device and never uploaded; anything the Assistant wants to send is preview-and-confirm.
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