Zed AI v1.6.3

This week's release includes the ability to open a Git diff for a single file in its own dedicated tab from the Git panel, "Fast mode" for Anthropic and OpenAI models in the agent panel, shareable agent skill links, split diff mode in the commit history view, total added/removed line counts in the Git panel, and the ability to open files from the file finder without dismissing it.

Features

AI

• Agent: Added a way to share skills via links. (#58009)

• Agent: Added support for symlinked global skill directories. (#58095; thanks David3u)

• Agent: Added a manual way to trigger the Rules to Skills migration. (#58278)

• Agent: Improved project skills support in remote workspaces. (#58094)

• Agent: Improved skill creation toast confirmation by making it auto-dismissed. (#57855)

• Agent: Added Claude Opus 4.8 BYOK support. (#57984)

• Agent: Added a right-click menu to thread items in the sidebar, allowing to regenerate a thread title, rename a thread title, open the thread as markdown, and archive it. (#58232)

• Agent: Added improvements for the draft thread UX particularly in the context of worktrees, allowing to choose for which worktree to open a thread in when the group contains more than one. (#58268)

• Agent: Improved the UX of the draft feature by always displaying a corresponding thread item in the sidebar, even if the thread was still empty. (#57692)

• Agent: Added "Fast mode" support in the agent panel for Anthropic and OpenAI models that support a toggle to get faster responses (fast mode for Anthropic and priority service tier for OpenAI) at increased per-token cost. (#57914)

• Agent: Added support for specifying reasoning effort for Grok 4.3 (xAI). (#58078)

• Agent: Added an agent.commit_message_instructions setting to customize AI-generated git commit messages. (#58188; thanks rbstp)

• Agent: Added terminal output controls for agents to inspect command output without hiding live terminal progress. (#58257, #58271)

• Agent: Exposed actions to switch between the classic and agentic workspace layout in the command palette. (#58281)

• Agent: Improved agent sandbox permission prompts by showing requested write paths in a clearer file list. (#58358)

• Agent: Improved agent terminal sandboxing to preserve temporary files across commands in the same thread. (#57878)

• Agent: Improved the agent's terminal sandbox so commands can request write access to specific paths instead of all-or-nothing filesystem access, with the option to grant access for a single command or the rest of the conversation. (#57972)

• Agent: Improved agent's edit file tool performance. (#58037)

• Agent: Added an indicator while ACP servers are downloading. (#57710)

• Agent: Terminal threads now render the first character of the terminal title as the thread's icon when it is an emoji. (#58251)

• Agent: Updated OpenCode models (added Qwen3.7 Max, updated Big Pickle token counts). (#57792; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)

Git

• Improved the commit history diff view by adding the ability to toggle the split diff mode. (#58163; thanks chirivelli)

• Added new git: compare with branch action to directly compare the current branch with an arbitrary branch. (#57886; thanks AlvaroParker)

• Git Graph: Excluded commits that aren't reachable from branches or tags. (#54291; thanks timvermeulen)

• Improved Git panel diff visibility by showing total added and removed line counts. (#58018; thanks WaryaWayne)

• Added progress feedback in the worktree picker while deleting a worktree. (#57751)

• Added support for opening SHA-256 object format git repositories. (#57587; thanks albertbogusz)

• Added support for anchored patterns in .git/info/exclude. (#57779; thanks hferreiro)

• Improved performance when generating git commit messages with an LLM. (#58062)

• Improved Git blame to quietly ignore files that are not part of a Git repository. (#56348; thanks terror)

• Improved git panel file diff opening. (#56152; thanks chirivelli)