Setup with MCP and Skills

Two pieces make an AI coding agent good at Zero Runtime:

The MCP server — a live search over these docs, hosted at https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai. The agent looks up real API details mid-task instead of recalling them.
The Agent Skill — the procedure for building on Zero Runtime: scoping the agent, wiring auth, and picking a pipeline.

Install both. The skill knows what to build; the MCP server tells it the exact method name.

This page is about your coding agent. To give your voice agent MCP tools at runtime, see Integrate MCP.

Install the MCP server

Pick your client. Most clients need a restart before a new server loads.

Run this from your project, or add --scope user to make it available everywhere:

claude mcp add --transport http zeroruntime https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai

Confirm it registered with claude mcp list.

Add the server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for this one:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zeroruntime": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"
    }
  }
}

Create .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace. Copilot picks it up once the file is saved.

{
  "servers": {
    "zeroruntime": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"
    }
  }
}

Add the server to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.zeroruntime]
url = "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"

Add the server to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zeroruntime": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"
    }
  }
}

Add the server to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json for every project, or .agents/mcp_config.json for this one:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zeroruntime": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"
    }
  }
}

A remote server must use serverUrl. The legacy url and httpUrl fields are not supported. Type /mcp in the prompt panel to manage servers from inside the CLI.

Open the MCP Servers panel, choose to edit the configuration, and add the server to cline_mcp_settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zeroruntime": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"
    }
  }
}

Add the server under context_servers in your Zed settings.json:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "zeroruntime": {
      "source": "custom",
      "url": "https://mcp.zeroruntime.ai"
    }
  }
}

Verify the connection

Ask your agent:

Search the Zero Runtime docs for how to generate an auth token, and tell me which page it came from.

A connected agent replies with a real docs.zeroruntime.ai URL it just fetched. If it answers from memory, cites no page, or says it has no such tool, the server has not loaded — restart the client and recheck the file you edited.

Install the Agent Skill

One skill, zeroruntime, covering voice agents, telephony, and the auth each needs.

npx skills add ZeroRuntimeAI/skills

npx skills is agent-agnostic. It asks which agents to install into — pick the ones you use, then restart them. To place it by hand instead, copy the zeroruntime folder into your agent’s skills directory, for example ~/.claude/skills/zeroruntime.

Skill or MCP server

They do different jobs and work best together.

	Agent Skill	MCP Server
What it is	The procedure the agent follows	The lookup the agent calls
What it holds	How to scope the build, wire auth, pick plugins	The current docs, searchable
When it runs	At the start of a Zero Runtime task	Whenever the agent needs an API detail

Troubleshooting

The agent says the tools are unavailable

Restart the client. Several of them only initialise MCP servers at startup.

A search comes back empty

Search for the full name as it appears in the docs — for example a plugin’s provider name — rather than an abbreviation.

A result is wrong or out of date

Ask the agent to send feedback through the server, including the page and the query you used. That reaches the team maintaining the index.

Get started

Quickstarts

SDKs

Setup with MCP and Skills

Install the MCP server

Verify the connection

Install the Agent Skill

Skill or MCP server

Troubleshooting

​Install the MCP server

​Verify the connection

​Install the Agent Skill

​Skill or MCP server

​Troubleshooting

Install the MCP server

Verify the connection

Install the Agent Skill

Skill or MCP server

Troubleshooting