Zed AI

This week's release adds Telescope-style resizable pickers with file and text finder previews (resolving a request with 860 👍s), including a new search modal that previews results live as you type, opened via the text finder: toggle action in the command palette, plus search in the Agent Panel.

Features

AI

• Added in-thread search to the Agent Panel (Ctrl/Cmd+F). (#57231; thanks dandv)

• Added an entry to the Agent Panel options menu to quickly add a remote MCP server. (#59359)

• Improved saved thread model selection for cloud-based providers. (#59417)

• Improved Agent Panel file search results from the agent's grep tool so they open files at the matched line when clicked. (#59230)

• Included the thread title in Agent Panel notifications when Zed is not focused. (#59377; thanks e-compton)

This week's release adds Telescope-style resizable pickers with file and text finder previews (resolving a request with 860 👍s), including a new search modal that previews results live as you type, opened via the text finder: toggle action in the command palette, plus search in the Agent Panel.

Features

AI

• Added in-thread search to the Agent Panel (Ctrl/Cmd+F). (#57231; thanks dandv)

• Added an entry to the Agent Panel options menu to quickly add a remote MCP server. (#59359)

• Improved saved thread model selection for cloud-based providers. (#59417)

• Improved Agent Panel file search results from the agent's grep tool so they open files at the matched line when clicked. (#59230)

• Included the thread title in Agent Panel notifications when Zed is not focused. (#59377; thanks e-compton)

This week's release includes the ability to create a new worktree right from the sidebar's new-thread button, a new agent.terminal_init_command setting to automatically run a command when opening a new agent terminal thread, a workspace: reset pane sizes command to reset all panes to equal sizes, and new editor: select inside delimiters / editor: select around delimiters actions for expanding a selection through nested brackets and quotes.

Features

AI

• Sidebar: Enabled creating a new worktree from the sidebar's "new thread" icon button. (#59341)

• Sidebar: Improved the archive "Search all threads" view so you can filter by project name, not just by thread title — handy when many projects are open. (#58214; thanks KevinLaveto)

• Agent: Improved edit tool performance with a more succinct success response. (#59335)

• Agent: Improved scroll smoothness while a response is streaming. (#59002)

This week's release includes the ability to create a new worktree right from the sidebar's new-thread button, a new agent.terminal_init_command setting to automatically run a command when opening a new agent terminal thread, a workspace: reset pane sizes command to reset all panes to equal sizes, and new editor: select inside delimiters / editor: select around delimiters actions for expanding a selection through nested brackets and quotes.

Features

AI

• Sidebar: Enabled creating a new worktree from the sidebar's "new thread" icon button. (#59341)

• Sidebar: Improved the archive "Search all threads" view so you can filter by project name, not just by thread title — handy when many projects are open. (#58214; thanks KevinLaveto)

• Agent: Improved edit tool performance with a more succinct success response. (#59335)

• Agent: Improved scroll smoothness while a response is streaming. (#59002)

This week's release includes automatic agent context compaction that you can also trigger manually with the new /compact command, cleaner and more legible Markdown preview styling, and support for running custom git commands on git graph branches and tags.

Features

AI

• Agent: Added auto-compaction and /compact to Zed Agent. (#58931)

• Agent: Improved agent skills management by moving it into the settings UI. (#58701)

• Agent: Improved how we communicate problems relative to skills, in both the agent panel and the settings UI. (#58838)

• Agent: Improved the UX of the thread import flow. (#57791)

• Agent: Improved auto scroll location when using read-file tool. (#58640; thanks liigo)

• Agent: Show context window usage and cost metrics for external agents that support it. (#58680)

This week's release includes automatic agent context compaction that you can also trigger manually with the new /compact command, cleaner and more legible Markdown preview styling, and support for running custom git commands on git graph branches and tags.

Features

AI

• Agent: Added auto-compaction and /compact to Zed Agent. (#58931)

• Agent: Improved agent skills management by moving it into the settings UI. (#58701)

• Agent: Improved how we communicate problems relative to skills, in both the agent panel and the settings UI. (#58838)

• Agent: Improved the UX of the thread import flow. (#57791)

• Agent: Improved auto scroll location when using read-file tool. (#58640; thanks liigo)

• Agent: Show context window usage and cost metrics for external agents that support it. (#58680)

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)

• Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view (#58695)

• acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting (#58633)

• Update both editor: go to diagnostic and editor: go to previous diagnostic to prefer activating the diagnostic under the cursor before jumping to the next or previous diagnostic, respectively (#58603)

• Fixed high CPU usage when using Zeta in some cases (thanks @clupprich!) (#58591)

• Fixed a crash that could occur while streaming agent edits containing multibyte characters. (#58452)

• Fixed an issue where Zed would stop responding to file system changes in some cases (#58692

• Fix crash that could occur when unsplitting a side by side diff view (#58694)

• Fixed symlinked files showing the entire file as changed in the git diff/gutter. (#58679)

• acp: Fix for certain ACP Registry agent downloads not starting (#58632)

• Fixed high CPU usage when using Zeta in some cases (thanks @clupprich!) (#58590)

• Fixed a crash that could occur while streaming agent edits containing multibyte characters. (#58451)

• Fixed an issue where Zed would stop responding to file system changes in some cases (#58692

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)