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AI coding at native speed

Smoothly collaborate with agents in Zed, editing files, navigating code, and running tools at the speed of the editor itself.

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Delegate, review, and extend your flow

Hand off tasks to your favorite agent, follow it along in real-time, and easily review its changes.

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Agentic Editing

Agentic Editing

Describe the task, the agent does the rest: discovering context, editing files, and staying on track until it’s done.

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Real-time Collaboration

Real-time Collaboration

Follow the agent as it navigates your codebase. The same multiplayer infrastructure that powers human collaboration, now shared with AI.

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Review and Refine

Review and Refine

Review the agent’s work in an editable unified diff. Accept or reject all changes before committing them.

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Any Agent, Any Tool

Any Agent, Any Tool

Bring agents like Claude Agent, Codex, or OpenCode via ACP. Connect MCP servers for extending the agent’s knowledge.

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Agentic Editing

Describe the task, the agent does the rest: discovering context, editing files, and staying on track until it’s done.

Real-time Collaboration

Follow the agent as it navigates your codebase. The same multiplayer infrastructure that powers human collaboration, now shared with AI.

Review and Refine

Review the agent’s work in an editable unified diff. Accept or reject all changes before committing them.

Any Agent, Any Tool

Bring agents like Claude Agent, Codex, or OpenCode via ACP. Connect MCP servers for extending the agent’s knowledge.

Trusted by influential AI users

I came from vim, and Zed is the Rust-powered code editor I’ve been waiting for. I love to dictate prompts to various LLMs and get notified when their work is ready to review. I got so much better at code review!

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Amos Wenger

fasterthanlime

By integrating editor capabilities into their agents, Zed agents delivered complete features while also preserving my project’s coding standards – and as everything else the Zed team does, it was incredibly fast at it

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José Valim

Creator of Elixir

Zed’s Vim mode is the best I’ve used so far and when the Agent was launched, I had to try it. It perfectly fits Zed’s philosophy of doing the best in the simplest form. It’s not shouting at me, but is there when I need it. It does its job and stays standby until the next time.

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Fatih Arslan

Software Engineer

It’s better than anything else I’ve tried — the context building is smart and well-designed. I’m impressed.

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Nicolas Gere-lamaysouette

Software Engineer

Using Agentic editing with Zed and Amazon Bedrock means I can tackle any problem, in any language, fearlessly.

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Shardul Vaidya

WW PSA GenAI for DevEx

I’ve spent 10 years as a Pycharm user waiting for another IDE to use, nothing came close. I’m a month into use Zed and I’m a complete convert, it’s beautiful, fast and flexible. At the same time, Zed has replaced Claude Code as my default coding agent.

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Samuel Colvin

Creator of Pydantic

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Zed runs agents from across the ecosystem. Because Zed is open, we can show how developers are actually using them.

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Code faster with Edit Predictions

Zeta predicts your next edit at keystroke granularity. Open-weight, open-data, and trained on how developers actually work.

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Full control in full-speed

Zed offers a powerful platform for interacting with agents, bringing many options to connect with them and control their behavior.

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Hosted by Zed

Use the best models like Claude Opus and GPT 5.4 with simple pricing and no API keys to manage.

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Run locally

Connect models through Ollama and keep everything on your hardware. Nothing leaves your machine.

Bring your own keys

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Bring your own keys

Plug in API keys from any provider. Use your existing accounts, your existing budgets.

Native speed

Written in Rust, rendered at 120fps. When your agent edits 50 files, you see every change as it happens.

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Fine-grain tool control

A granular settings system for configuring permissions for what tools your agent has access to.

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Open source, open protocol, open model

Zed, Zeta, and ACP are all open source. The editor, the model, and the protocol, built in public.

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Copen_router: Support effort-based reasoning

@codello•#61308•6d ago•View →

ERagent: Add ask_user tool using elicitation forms

@e-r-w•#61497•2w ago•View →

Gagent_ui: Add reload controls for failed agent connections

@gaojunran•#62669•1w ago•View →

Tagent_ui: Persist the most recently selected agent, not whichever write finishes last

@tnayuki•#61147•1w ago•View →

Agoogle_ai: Add Gemini 3.7 Flash

@ArneshBanerjee•#62670•2w ago•View →

Aagent_ui: Fix inline assistant when reasoning precedes tool use

@aviatesk•#61220•1w ago•View →

Vagent: OpenCode model updates (+6 Go, +7/-1 Zen, removed Free)

@Vlaaaaaaad•#61199•1w ago•View →

Aedit_prediction: Support self-hosted Sweep Next Edit models

@avoidthekitchen•#51139•1mo ago•View →

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Go Deeper

Benchmarks, philosophy, and docs to get the most out of AI in Zed.

The Fastest AI Code Editor

Benchmark results comparing Zed to other AI-enabled editors.

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On Programming with Agents

How we think about the role of AI in software development.

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Bring Your Own Agent

Connect Claude Agent, Codex, or Gemini CLI to Zed via ACP.

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More Resources

AI Documentation—Setup guides, configuration, and reference for all AI features

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Agent Client Protocol—A standard for connecting any agent to any client

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Agentic Engineering—Conversations with industry leaders about the impact of agentic development

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Pricing & Plans—Details about using Zed’s hosted models

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Last updated Oct 08, 2026