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Quick Start with Zed

1. Install Auggie CLI

npm install -g @augmentcode/auggie@latest

2. Sign in to Augment

auggie login
This will open a browser window for authentication.

3. Get your authentication token (Only if you set it up remotely, this is not mandatory locally.)

auggie token print
This will output something like:
TOKEN={"accessToken":"your-access-token","tenantURL":"your-tenant-url","scopes":["read","write"]}
Copy the accessToken value (the long string after "accessToken":") and the tenantURL value for the next step.

4. Configure the MCP server in Zed

  • Click the … then Add Custom Server Zed custom server
  • Paste the config below Zed MCP
{
  "Augment-Context-Engine": {
    "enabled": true,
    "command": "auggie",
    "args": ["--mcp", "--mcp-auto-workspace"],
    "env": {}
  }
}

5. Test the integration

Prompt: “What is this project? Please use codebase retrieval tool to get the answer.” Zed should confirm it has access to the codebase-retrieval tool. Zed test