4.9 Zed, Windsurf, and Other MCP Clients
Most MCP clients need the same three facts: a server name, a transport, and a URL or stdio command. Once the tools appear, the behavioral primer is identical.
HTTP shape
{
"name": "mentisdb",
"transport": "http",
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:9471"
}Stdio shape
{
"name": "mentisdb",
"command": "mentisdb",
"args": ["--mode", "stdio"]
}Universal smoke test
- Ask the client to list MCP tools.
- Confirm
mentisdb_bootstrapappears. - Ask it to bootstrap, read the core skill, and write a checkpoint.
- Search for that checkpoint in the dashboard.