Ship messaging and voice from Zed’s agent panel.

Connect Zed to Bird so your coding agent can configure sending domains and phone numbers, wire transactional email, SMS, WhatsApp, and Voice into your codebase, and debug delivery failures without leaving the editor.

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Send messages and check delivery from your code, terminal, or AI assistant.

YouVoice

Can you check which calls are active right now and tell me which are connected and which are still ringing?

Bird MCP4 connected actions
  1. 1Read the workspaceworkspace_get
  2. 2Find calls in progressvoice_legs_list
  3. 3Inspect the connected callvoice_legs_get
  4. 4Inspect the ringing callvoice_legs_get
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Connect Zed to your Bird workspace in four quick steps.

Register Bird’s remote MCP server in Zed, sign in through your browser to grant workspace permissions, and install the Bird skills package so your agent understands channel workflows.

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settings.json
{
  "context_servers": {
    "bird": {
      "url": "https://mcp.bird.com"
    }
  }
}
Terminal · Skills
npx skills add messagebird/bird-ai

  1. Add the Bird MCP server

    Open Settings → AI → MCP Servers in Zed, choose Add Server, and select Add Remote Server, or add the context server configuration shown here to your editor settings. Remote server sign-in requires Zed 0.230 or later.

  2. Authorize your Bird account

    Click the Authenticate button next to Bird in Zed and complete the browser sign-in to link your workspace and permissions.

  3. Install Bird agent skills

    Run the skills installer in your terminal to give Zed’s agent guidance on Bird CLI workflows and email deliverability audits. The installer detects Zed and places the skills where your editor loads them.

  4. Verify your active workspace

    Ask the agent to confirm your signed-in identity and active Bird workspace before running channel operations, ensuring changes target the right environment.

Run real channel workflows from Zed’s agent panel.

Ask your agent to audit email deliverability, configure SMS senders for application notifications, or inspect live Voice calls against your Bird workspace.

Understand a delivery issue
Check my recent email failures. Group them by reason, inspect the affected sending domain, and tell me what needs fixing before making changes.
Prepare a new channel
Help me set up SMS for order updates. Check my workspace and available senders, explain what is missing, then prepare a test for a number I provide.
See what is happening now
List the Voice calls that are active right now. Separate connected calls from calls that are still ringing, and show their IDs.

How Zed connects to your Bird workspace

Understand how browser sign-in, workspace permissions, and production credentials work when building with Bird in Zed.

Does connecting MCP give my agent unrestricted access?

No. Bird’s MCP server scopes tool execution to the workspace permissions of your signed-in account and the access you grant during browser authorization. You can revoke Zed’s access from your Bird account settings whenever needed.

Do I need an API key for hosted MCP?

No. Connecting Zed to Bird’s hosted MCP server uses OAuth sign-in in your browser rather than a static key in your editor config. When your application code sends Email, SMS, WhatsApp, or Voice traffic from your own servers, configure a dedicated Bird API key in your application environment.

What if the tools appear but calls fail?

Adding the remote server URL registers Bird’s tools in Zed, but calls require an active browser sign-in and Zed 0.230 or later. Click Authenticate next to Bird in Zed’s MCP settings, finish the browser login, and ask the agent to verify your active workspace before retrying.

Extend your Bird setup with deeper MCP controls, reusable agent skills, and connections for your other coding tools.

MCP server

Review hosted HTTP transport, OAuth sign-in, and workspace permission boundaries for Bird’s MCP tools.

Agent skills

Install task-specific guidance for Bird CLI operations and email deliverability audits in your repo.

Other AI tools

Connect Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP clients to the same Bird workspace.

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