Zed
Zed is a high-performance, collaborative code editor with built-in AI agent tooling that runs on the desktop.
Its Agent Panel hosts threaded conversations with agents that can read, write, and run code in your project through built-in tools, while a separate Inline Assistant transforms a selection in place.
Zed also supports third-party coding agents through the open Agent Client Protocol (ACP), including Anthropic’s Claude Agent, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Google’s Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor. Claude Agent builds on Claude Code. The ACP Registry lists more.
Zed lets you choose and configure language models. You can run several agent threads in parallel across projects and worktrees, and Edit Prediction suggests inline completions as you type using Zed’s open-weight Zeta2 model. Zed supports the Language Server Protocol (LSP) for many programming languages.
Official website: zed.dev
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