Connect Fathom to Zed
Give Zed governed access to Fathom’s 12 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Fathom to Zed in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Zed then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add Fathom to Runlayer
Fathom isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Zed to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Zed by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Zed reaches Fathom’s 12 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Zed setup guide - 3
Sign in to Fathom
Sign in the way Fathom requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Fathom from Zed
Fathom’s approved tools appear in Zed. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
12 Fathom tools in Zed
Runlayer policy decides which of these Zed users can call.
Find person
Find a person by name across meeting speakers, then return contact info and compact summaries for matched meetings.
Find relevant meetings
Targeted ranked retrieval for specific facts, decisions, quotes, named projects, companies, products, people-plus-topic questions, or locating the best matching meetings.
Get identity
Returns the authenticated user's name and email address.
Get meeting summary
Returns the AI summary of a specific Fathom meeting.
Get meeting transcript
Returns the full transcript of a specific Fathom meeting.
Get recording by call ID
Resolve a Fathom call ID to a recording_id plus title, date, and url.
Get recording by URL
Resolve a Fathom URL to a recording_id plus title, date, and url.
Get relevant meetings result
Returns the find_relevant_meetings result for a search_id.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Zed
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Zed exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Fathom call from Zed passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Zed as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Zed yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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