Install CICADA in Zed

What you need first

• Zed, installed.
• uv, which gives the uvx command the server starts with.

Steps

1. Open Zed's settings file, ~/.config/zed/settings.json (on Windows %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json), or .zed/settings.json for one project.
2. Add this block. If the file already has context_servers, add only the entry inside it.

{
  "context_servers": {
    "cicada": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["cicada-mcp==0.6.4"]
    }
  }
}

3. Save the file. Zed starts the server, and Settings › AI › MCP Servers lists it.

Check it worked

Ask Zed: List the tools of cicada.

If it does not start

spawn uvx ENOENT

uv is not on the PATH that Zed sees. Install it, or write the full path of uvx in the config.

Nothing changes after a restart

The file is not valid JSON any more. Look for a missing comma where the block was added.