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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

683 points by meetpateltech 1y ago

giancarlostoro 1y ago
Zed is my favorite editor in a long time, and thats without diving into its AI support.
- wraptile 1y ago
  Really love Zed after working in it full time for a month now and pay their 20$ sub tier to support them even when I rarely use the LLM integration beyond the auto-complete. At first I was very dismissive of it due to being Apple-first but they've turned it around with really good Linux support and it seems like Windows soon as well!
koakuma-chan 1y ago
I just installed it and it seems changing mode is unsupported? I can't figure out how to switch to plan mode.
- Aeolun 1y ago
  I think the article mentions this not yet being supported by the SDK, and therefore by the editor.
  - adastra22 1y ago
    Ah, if it is using the SDK, that is a big limitation. The SDK is nice, but it is meant to provide support for backend use of Claude Code, not integrating an interactive session.
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throwawa14223 1y ago
Zed used to be a good editor but it is increasingly LLM infested.
- Sparkle-san 1y ago
  Just disable it. It seems like they've made is as simple as possible to do so while also being realistic about what it takes to make a successful (read: profitable) IDE the year 2025.
  - runarberg 1y ago
    Given the state of information technology in 2025 I think your parent has a good reason to believe AI features ruins everything. It is common in well funded (read VC funded) technology to start with an easy toggle to disable, and then slowly make opt-out ever harder to completely accomplish. Disable 3rd party tracking ads on google platforms used to be a simple toggle as well.
    - stavros 1y ago
      You can think that AI ruins everything, or that tracking ads ruin everything, but the reality is that VC investment ruins everything, because it turns you from the customer to the product. I guess the eventual culprit is capitalism, where profit is the ultimate goal for everything, so there will never be a single product that is not enshittified in this way. The best part? If you don't like it, there's nothing you can do! It's the whole culture.
  - stavros 1y ago
    I've found that the sort of people who complain about AI or cryptocurrency don't care if it can be disabled. The mere fact that such functionality exists taints the product for them. I can't say I understand the reasons (I like AI functionality), but that's what I've noticed.
    - microflash 1y ago
      I do care that it can be disabled. My problem with such functionality is that it becomes the sole focus of the development team, drifting their attention away from improving core experiences, such as language and plugin support, polishing ergonomics, and pruning papercuts.
extr 1y ago
Zed is so great, I do wish they would focus just a little bit more on bringing the UI just a bit more up to parity with VS Code, I would switch full time.
- sirodoht 1y ago
  What do you feel is missing from the UI?
  - tmdh 1y ago
    I feel like the UI is not as smooth as VSCode. There is a slight lag when scrolling.
    - Longhanks 1y ago
      Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust? ...and now they lose to a web app?
      - seanssel 1y ago
        I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they're used to a smooth scroll animation in VS Code or something? Zed feels snappier/lighter in just about every way to me.
        sayrer 1y ago
        No kidding. It is /so/ fast. It has remote development like VS Code, and most of the features I use, so it's my main thing now. Claude Code was the only thing that made me wince, since I wondered if I was living in the dark ages. VS Code of course has many more extensions, but I don't use that many.
      - sapiogram 1y ago
        There's a reason everyone writes their GUI apps in Electron nowadays. Browser have spent 30 years figuring out fast rendering, it's hard to beat that, even with native code.
ncdlek 1y ago
I wish someone integrate qwen-coder as well
- jimmydoe 1y ago
  qwen keep rebase gemeni so I guess just wait?
- sieabahlpark 1y ago
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- leoh 1y ago
  Zed "just works" with ollama, so if you install a qwen modal locally you're set.
- eli 1y ago
  Is that much different from just using the Zed agent with Qwen via API?
  - vitorgrs 1y ago
    Qwen-Coder is free.
- pbd 1y ago
  agreed. waiting for qwen here as well.
- shallow-mind 1y ago
  I actually works already, just add new agent definition: --- "Local QWEN": { "command": "/usr/local/bin/qwen", "args": [ "--experimental-acp" ], "env": {} }, ---
faangguyindia 1y ago
Does anyone have python library for ACP? Looking to integrate my agent with this.
apwell23 1y ago
what i am missing by using claude cli with nvim. i don't understand why editor integration needed.
- nertzy 1y ago
  The editor treats edits from Claude Code as a first class citizen. You can easily review, approve, rollback, etc. Claude's changes in a curated experience that is much faster than digging around in diffs or needing to approve each edit as it is proposed. https://zed.dev/agentic https://zed.dev/agentic
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  - apwell23 1y ago
    i open my nvim on a socket and tell calude code cli about it. my claude.md has a line "look for lsp errors when you are done editing" so it communicates with neovim on the socket and gets whatever it needs from editor.
  - unshavedyak 1y ago
    Yea, having tried claude code a lot over the last couple months reviewing code is the #1 job in my view. Any tool that helps you do that more quickly and easily is essential to guarding from slop slip through. What a world heh.
- manojlds 1y ago
  It's just about polish and tightness of integration or may even be lack of it. Claude Code for VSCode is basically Claude Code running in VSCode terminal with some integrations for open file, selections and diffs.
jm4 1y ago
Not sure if anyone from Zed is here. I tried this out and got the following error: Internal error: { "details": "can't load supported slash commands" }
- cmclaughlin 1y ago
  I got this error too. Tried restarting zed and restarting my computer, but neither resolved it.
- kreutz 1y ago
  I got this same error. I restarted Zed, and it fixed itself.
  - jm4 1y ago
    Thanks. I tried that. Didn't work.
- pram 1y ago
  Same!
- rtfeldman 1y ago
  We just pushed a fix! Here's how to get it: - Start a new Claude Code Thread, which will kick off the background download of the new Claude Code ACP adapter. - Wait a few seconds, then start another Claude Code Thread. The new thread will use the updated one. We're working on a nicer UX for getting updated versions, which we'll definitely ship before Claude Code support leaves beta!
  - jm4 1y ago
    Thanks! It successfully installed this time, but now I have a new error: Internal error: { "details": "Failed to intialize Claude Code.\n\nThis may be caused by incorrect MCP server configuration, try disabling them." } I logged in via Claude CLI using my subscription.
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peterson_lock 1y ago
> Credit balance is too low I have a subscription to Claude. What gives?
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- dcre 1y ago
  When you run Claude Code it lets you pick between API key and Claude subscription login. It sounds like it found an API key in your env and is trying to use that. You may have to find a way to trigger a login to get you into your subscription account.
  - unshavedyak 1y ago
    In the terminal based Claude Code, use /logout and /login to switch billing iirc.
  - peterson_lock 1y ago
    Yep, that was it. I had an Anthropic API Key set in Zed. Resetting that (after typing /login in the agent window) did the trick!
zelphirkalt 1y ago
Recently I set up a virtual machine running GNU/Linux on Windows, so that I can continue to use Emacs and all my usual tools for developing software, while I am waiting for a friend to make a move in a turn based game. I decided to give Doom Emacs a try. Well, I like the keybindings so far. However, it got issues. When I use neotree, it gets confused with windows (the Emacs term "window", not desktop windows, or the OS). Also it has already crashed twice. Once I even lost some code, which I had to write again. Unacceptable. Why was there not even an Emacs backup file for the file I was editing? Anyway, today I thought: "Why not try one of these other editors in that VM and see, if I like any?" Yesterday I looked again at LunarVim's website. While LunarVim seems to look pretty, it has a lot of dependencies, including pip, npm, and more. Seems like it is installing stuff from everywhere. Not so confidence inspiring, especially pip and npm installs. And just now I see this Zed blog post linked on HN! But, unfortunately the website is not inspiring much confidence either. Can anyone explain to me, why I cannot see any _text_ on all of zed.dev, without running JS? I mean, I probably know the answer, or some possible answers, but man, that's already such a turnoff, I already doubt the editor is any good now. Would be good, if they could fix their website, and make simple text, simple text again, accessible and all that. Please get some craftsmanship into this website. EDIT: 'pparently I said something some people don't want to hear, lol.
- rvnx 1y ago
  Lucky you because for me, for some reason, their website is randomly down when I click to change page: Web server (host) is returning an unknown error Error code 520.
- Karrot_Kream 1y ago
  I recently un-borked my emacs config and re-downloaded elisp into my brain so I'd be happy to help walking you through the emacs stuff. I haven't used emacs on Windows natively in a long time but I did it for years and found it worked quite well so you may want to try that again. FWIW emacs these days has native LSP support (eglot) and native tree-sitter supported, but you'll need to grab tree-sitter libraries and LSP servers. For MacOS I found just using brew to install most of these works great, and I wonder if Windows can't work the same way. If you're in a VM you should just be able to have your package manager do the work. LLM support in emacs is still a bit primitive but there are packages like emacs claude-code that are changing things. Personally I wrote an elisp function which grabs the filename of the emacs window relative to the project root and copies it so that I can just paste it into claude code and have it ask questions or do things. ``` (defun copy-buffer-file-name-from-project-root () "Copy the relative path of the buffer in this project to the kill ring" (interactive) (kill-new (file-relative-name (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)) (project-root (project-current))))) ``` if you're curious but depending on how you have your clipboards setup with the kill ring, you may need to modify this. --- As far as fighting the JS fight on the Zed website, well, I think this thread isn't one of those upvote-anti-JS-rant threads that spring up on this site all the time so shrug.
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benbristow 1y ago
Still no Windows support for Zed, meh.
- yobert 1y ago
  It will come! Linux support is only recently getting good. They'll get there.
Yhippa 1y ago
Naive question: is using Claude Code from the command line or in these tools like VSC or Zed different from using it in the native app on a desktop? Is that because it has access to your codebase?
- ascorbic 1y ago
  Not tried with Zed yet, but in VS Code it's mostly the same except you can view the diffs in the editor, and can give context from the open file. I think it can also see errors from the editor.
- dostick 1y ago
  After having troubles with Claude desktop not properly updating canvas document, I found that apparently Claude Code is same as desktop one plus you can use it not just for code but documents in VS Code.
- james_marks 1y ago
  Not just your codebase, but also a wide range of *nix tooling. Night and day to working on the CLI vs an IDE.
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- josefrichter 1y ago
  In Elixir/Rails (and newly React) world you can connect Clade Desktop to Tidewave, which gives you pretty close integration with codebase and CLI tools. That makes the experience somewhat similar to running Claude Code in editor's terminal, or now directly connected in Zed. I think basically all these tools are trying to integrate all the stuff together and find the best way to do that, so that you don't need to be copy-pasting stuff around, jumping between tools, etc.
ZpJuUuNaQ5 1y ago
I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and dozens of extensions based on either a technology stack or a project - it would be really difficult to find a good reason to throw it all away. The idea of switching between IDEs does not appeal to me either. I do use Neovim a little bit too, but most of that usage time was spent on configuration.
- pimeys 1y ago
  It's really interesting point of view. I'm one of those people who avoid using VSCode at any cost. It's slow, it's bloated, the UI is not great, and it's slowly being locked down by Microsoft. If Zed would not exist, I would be using helix, neovim, or emacs as I did before.
  - torben-friis 1y ago
    It’s not at all slow when compared to IntelliJ products or similar. It doesn’t compete with editors, it competes with IDEs.
  - hu3 1y ago
    Interestingly I disagree with all your points about VSCode. It's fast, barebones by default, UI is minimal and it's Open Source enough that competitors forked from it. I guess YMMV because there is a comment in this post from another user about Zed being sluggish.
    - pimeys 1y ago
      I tried VSCode many times in my life and just hated the experience so much. It put me away from GUI editors for years, didn't want to try any of them. So ugly and so sluggish. Zed was the first one that put me to rethink my position. It is so snappy on my Linux workstation and I don't have any issues with it's GUI. I finally switched from vim et.al. But I know I have "weird" opinions, I also really dislike Apple products and their software.
csar 1y ago
Really excited for this. I'm not sure if it supports ESC-ESC (and whether the SDK supports it) but I'm excited to try. If not, I hope Anthropic will add it soon since that's a key feature for fixing mistakes.
lvl155 1y ago
I tried so many times to switch but I’ve reached a conclusion that Zed sucks. It doesn’t even properly support Python out of the box. UI is crap.
1zael 1y ago
Zed lacks an ecosystem for plugins, which is a huge drawback for me. The native debugging UX is cool, but I can get this w/ my VSCode plugins.
- dpatterbee 1y ago
  This seems obviously untrue. https://zed.dev/extensions https://zed.dev/extensions
  - tylergetsay 1y ago
    VSCode has ~60k extensions last I checked
  - 1zael 1y ago
    VSCode has 60k+ extensions vs Zed's 744. I'm pretty sure there's a clear winner here.
    - alehlopeh 1y ago
      Many of which were found to have been compromised with malware and have after having been installed millions of times. Extensions are an attack surface emdash I don’t see why it’s better to have more than anyone could possibly ever audit.
  - paraboul 1y ago
    extentions in Zed are just languages support and themes.
FabHK 1y ago
Funny, when I read > Escape the Terminal it does not sound like a good thing to me: a) the terminal is fine; b) AI should not escape anything.
bicijay 1y ago
The only reason i didnt move to zed from jetbrains yet is the lack of a more mature Git UI. Other than that, great editor, very fast.
- brabel 1y ago
  Is it really comparable?? I use JB IDEs heavily and when I tried Zed a few months ago it felt more like Notepad than IntelliJ. Maybe that’s what you’re looking for and I am sure that’s fast, but they seem to have quite different use cases.
- pzmarzly 1y ago
  After moving to Zed I also missed good Git integration that I had in VSCode with GitLens. That pushed me to finally try Jujutsu instead of Git, since it has a CLI (and TUI and GUI, if that's your thing) that are perfectly usable by mere mortals. Now I feel as fast as when I had the Git integration, despite using the terminal. But if I had stuck to Git, trying GitButler or Sublime Merge was the next option on my TODO list.
skeptrune 1y ago
It's interesting that VSCode has its own Claude code extension which works well and does most of this. Zed has a lot of these micro-battles ahead where it has to spend money building solutions that VSCode's community shipped without their core team putting in any effort at all.
- josefrichter 1y ago
  Does it? Or do you mean the integration when you run Claude Code from the terminal opened in VSCode? (which is already pretty good)
  - skeptrune 1y ago
    It does, there's an extension you can install which is even a bit better.
- mikaylamaki 1y ago
  Actually, Anthropic built that integration themselves.
atonse 1y ago
My main issue with claude code is running multiple ones in parallel. I don't want to manually do all the git worktree stuff, I just want claude to handle it for me. So if Zed automatically handles that (where there's a worktree per thread) I can see the appeal. Apart from that, I'm already using Tower to view the changes so I'm not really sure what the value here is. I tried installing it, and got an error "can't load supported slash commands" – not sure what that means.
- ZachSaucier 1y ago
  Ona makes this easy: https://ona.com/ https://ona.com/
- camwest 1y ago
  Same, logged an issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-code-acp/issues/18 https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-code-acp/issues/18
- nosefurhairdo 1y ago
  I suspect Zed will aim to tackle this issue via DeltaDB: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-operation-level-version-control https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...
- nicoslepicos 1y ago
  You should try Magnet for this! (www.magnet.run) https://www.loom.com/share/ceabf385871e45b88fcb512b6de6b684 https://www.loom.com/share/ceabf385871e45b88fcb512b6de6b684
not_your_vase 1y ago
I just installed it on my EndeavourOS box. I opened it, it asked my which theme I want. I couldn't click, and suddenly it went into unresponsive mode. A minute later I killed it and uninstalled it. I keep trying this editor every few months ever since it was announced, but I always have similar experiences. I remember once I managed to start actually editing something before the GUI started to disappear. But hey, it has AI.
- jitl 1y ago
  This is why I try to avoid building/supporting desktop Linux gui apps
unshavedyak 1y ago
I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config) My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allow these sort of text editing primitives to work in new editors, as it seems to be considerable friction.
- yes_but_no 1y ago
  If you are already familiar with Vim bindings is Helix's object then action really worth that much?
  - unshavedyak 1y ago
    For me, definitely. Plus it's quite the muscle memory switch. I switched to Kakoune ages ago, and then eventually Helix because i liked its design a bit more.
  - sxg 1y ago
    I thought the same, but I gave Helix a shot for fun a couple years ago and never looked back. It really does feel better/more ergonomic, but the greatest benefit is that almost everything you need is built in. I spent way too much time fiddling with Vim and NeoVim configs.
- Karrot_Kream 1y ago
  Helix seems to have good LSP support from what I can tell? The only language I use at $WORK that doesn't have full support is GraphQL which lacks auto indent. If you want to try something similar to Helix in emacs, there's meow-mode. While I'm not a helix user myself, it shouldn't be too difficult to get meow to work like helix.
- diegs 1y ago
  I agree, I've fantasized about an editor with a truly pluggable editing model which is decoupled from the other parts. Yi was kind of designed like this, I believe. You could compile in an emacs-like model, a vim-like model, or presumably make your own model. I've used Helix and Kakoune in addition to Emacs and Vim, but dealing with the limitations/featureset/plugin treadmill gets a little tiring. I have been following Zed, and it seems that they have rearchitected things to enable adding Helix mode and making the editing model a bit more modular, but it's still fairly new. They are fixing bugs pretty quickly. I will have to try it again. They have a nice discussion here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447 They reference Ki, which also looks cool, and they out some of Helix's inconsistencies in their comparison: https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/docs/comparisons/ https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/docs/comparisons/ I prefered Kakoune to Helix (it was more consistent). But to your point, being able to swap these things out more easily would let you choose an editor based on features, and not tradeoff between features and an ergonomic editing model. Ironically you can use Ki inside of VSCode (and I know you can use Vim that way too), but VSCode is so darn bloated and slow...
Michael_Keller 1y ago
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srid 1y ago
Note: if you use SSH-based remote development, this doesn't work. https://x.com/sridca/status/1963271904384401886 https://x.com/sridca/status/1963271904384401886
- johntash 1y ago
  zed crashes completely now for me when using a remote env over ssh since a couple releases ago.
- cedws 1y ago
  That's unfortunate. I use Zed and I'm moving towards containerising my dev environment (using SSH remote dev to connect Zed to the container) because all this agentic stuff seems like a security nightmare. At the very least I want to restrict the blast radius to my repos dir.
  - pimeys 1y ago
    I would give them a week or less to support this. They've been improving the debugger so fast, it will take them no time to support remote claude code connections.
- achairapart 1y ago
  Any reason for this? Is it something temporary or it will never be supported?
- mxs_ 1y ago
  Remote dev isn't very good in Zed, unfortunately. For some reason they chose not to apply the local editor's settings to a remote session by default. Every remote has its own config file. Questionable choice, imo
- mcintyre1994 1y ago
  IIRC it doesn’t work in Cursor either, and their own AI sidebar was getting weird issues too. Mostly switched back to VSCode for SSH workflows because of that.
EXHades 1y ago
zed extension is too bad to be used as a full-fledged extensible editor, as many features and interfaces are missing.
ppeetteerr 1y ago
I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-within-zed/ https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more accurate in Cursor). I am glad to hear that Zed got a round of funding. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed This will go a long way to creating real competition to Cursor in the form of a quality IDE not built on VSCode
- cnqso 1y ago
  What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
  - shreddit 1y ago
    Does it really? At the end of the day i need it to do my job. Ideal values don’t help me doing my job. So i choose the editor best suited and the features i need. And that’s not zed at the moment.
    - mikepurvis 1y ago
      There's an analogue here with programming language iteration— Python, Ruby and friends showed what the semantics were that were needed, and then a decade or two later, Go and Rust took those semantics and put them in compiled, performance-oriented languages. Electron has been a powerful tool for quickly iterating UIs and plugin architectures in VSCode, Brackets, Atom, etc, now the window is open for a modern editor to deliver that experience without the massive memory footprint and UI stalls.
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jryio 1y ago
What most of these comments are missing is the attempt at standardization and unification. There are a lot of comments that people need X feature in order to switch to Y editor. While that may be true and your particular workflow requires certain features, what is overlooked is the survival pressure for editors. It appears that our industry is moving towards adoption, sometimes mandatory, of AI coding agents. Regardless of your feelings on the topic, having good tooling to support this effort comes down to: switching costs, compatibility with existing editors, and a strong ecosystem of third party extensions. While Cursor/Windsurf jumped the gun on bespoke editor integrations with LLMs - the adoption of MCP and other SDKs for coding agents means it's plug and play. The full feature set will be in every editor connected to every agent. I think Zed wins on having the lowest switching costs for most developers. Paying down generic solutions like Agent Client Protocol (AC) now is a good strategy. It took multiple parties coming together for us to get TLS, OAuth 2.0, and ECMAScript. I don't see why most editors should behave like hand crafted musical instruments when in reality they are much more akin to high quality knives in a kitchen (sure you have your favorite knife set and bring it from job to job, but at the end of the day you can be just as productive with a different knife when necessary).
- Shank 1y ago
  > I don't see why most editors should behave like hand crafted musical instruments when in reality they are much more akin to high quality knives in a kitchen (sure you have your favorite knife set and bring it from job to job, but at the end of the day you can be just as productive with a different knife when necessary). This is such a poor analogy. Yes, a good chef can make do with a different knife, but there is a reason why chefs pay for significantly higher quality knives, keep them sharpened, and treat them with diligence and care, than other kitchen tools. A blunt knife can actually be dangerous. Consequently, a lot of chefs buy knives that are effectively hand crafted / forged knives out of this relentless pursuit of quality. > What most of these comments are missing is the attempt at standardization and unification. > While that may be true and your particular workflow requires certain features, what is overlooked is the survival pressure for editors. I think your general perception is not something I agree with. I want to use software I enjoy using. Programming is a creative exercise for me, and I want to use the tools I enjoy. If a tool is not enjoyable to use, I do not want to use it. Sometimes, productivity does increase enjoyment, but sometimes it doesn't. For example, arguably I would have been more productive in my Java days if I used Eclipse, but because the editor was so bad, I preferred to learn the APIs myself and use Sublime Text instead. I also don't think I'm sympathetic to the survival of any particular editor. Software comes and goes, and sustainably built business models will prevail. All of the AI-first editors hinge on this being the right iteration of this technology, and we simply do not have a long enough timeframe or context to know if this is truly the best way to write code using AI. MCP/ACP, whatever else might be the best strategy for now, but I think it's too early for anyone to suggest that we've come to the right conclusion forever.
dang 1y ago
Recent and related: Agent Client Protocol (ACP) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147 - Aug 2025 (93 comments)
skhameneh 1y ago
I like Zed in concept. I like Zed in the architectural and foundational aspects. I want more tools like Zed to exist. But, I find Zed challenging to adopt due to random nuances. First, settings management is a mixed bag and sometimes I just want a quick way to open the "settings.json" from the settings pane without fussing around. Then I'd like the "settings.json" to stay open (reopen) on a restart of Zed. Then I'd like the ability to use an LLM that doesn't have native tool calling support, which Zed seems to be the only app I've used that doesn't have a workaround. Then I'd like the UI to be a little easier to navigate as a new user, it feels a bit scattered and overwhelming at times. I haven't used Zed much and I may give it another shot (soon), but it very much feels like a tool built by engineers for engineers... Which is great for power users, but seems not so great for new adopters. I don't think the shortcomings are a blocker, but they are the reason I haven't adopted Zed. The shortcomings are just enough for me to take a step back and say "maybe I'll try again later".
- honeycrispy 1y ago
  The nuance situation is rapidly improving. I had several minor issues with Zed ~6 months ago, and most of them have been patched away.
  - bradgessler 1y ago
    While true, I've noticed there's so many changes between Zed and the plugins that other things break, and it's hard to track down exactly what broke.
- bbor 1y ago
  I spent a while trying to set it up, as I share your general take on their ethos. Personally, I'm okay with a 'power user'-focused text editor, even! But the relative lack of syntax highlighting options got me to give up. Maybe I'm just spoiled from SublimeText's dope, complex, extensible system for specifying "contexts" in themes, but Zed was just nowhere near enough for me. The keybinding system is also nuts if you turn on Vim mode, but I think I'd eventually get used to that. But functions need to be a different color than arguments, which need to be a different color than local variables... Just non-negotiable. I look forward to trying it again sometime soon! The AI features seem rad, this included.
neurostimulant 1y ago
It's great that Zed adding this very useful feature, but isn't this effectively cannibalize their own AI subscription plans? Why pay zed $20 when you already pay for claude code and can use it in the assistant panel? You might still want the edit prediction feature, but then why pay zed $20 when you can pay $10 github copilot and can use it to power zed's edit prediction feature?
- ricardobeat 1y ago
  It’s also great that they’re willing to risk that, in the name of a potentially better user experience. That’s what gets them to win in the long run, not building another walled garden.
- chillfox 1y ago
  Could be cheaper, maybe? I have been using zed a fair bit with clause api and the 50 free prompts a month that zed provide on the free plan works out to roughly $8 for an equivalent amount of code using the claude api. But no idea how it compares to the subscription plan.
btown 1y ago
As a VS Code + Claude Code user, I'm really excited to see progress here, because the official near-zero-config Claude Code IDE integration is... inflexible, at best. What if I want to send a subset of my open editor panes to Claude Code? What if I want Claude Code to open diffs for its edited files in a specific area/window, and silently open that file so that I can multitask on other things without it taking focus when it's done thinking? What if I want keyboard shortcuts for specific slash commands, or to trigger a slash command from another task? Having a robust open-source ecosystem that will let users fork and build customizable UI around coding agent experiences will make them even better, and the space will move even more quickly because the ecosystem won't split between different preferences for agent/model choice. It's an incredible time to be coding.
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pandemic_region 1y ago
I wish the release notes of Zed would contain less AI.*, and more focus on getting the core editor capabilities completed. I'm a fan though, don't get me wrong.
- petcat 1y ago
  They've been chasing nothing but AI crap for months. Maybe a year. They've stopped improving the core editor completely. I'm getting ready to just switch back to Sublime Text
yonisto 1y ago
I know it is not popular around here, but until Zed gets a windows version: Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead
- audunw 1y ago
  There is a Windows version if you're willing to use unofficial builds. I've been using it successfully for a few weeks. There's a few more rough corners than in the official Mac/Linux version, but it's usable.
  - yonisto 1y ago
    Thanks. I might once I'll be in a mood to get frustrated by rough corners :-)
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dcre 1y ago
Glad to see this out so quickly. Like I said[0] on the Gemini announcement post, it feels like Zed is trying to get out of the business of iterating on agent logic and just let other people handle it. Any prompting secret sauce a) is trivial to copy, and b) gets eaten by the next model generation anyway. The capabilities of Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. seem to me to be converging. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045515
- lemontheme 1y ago
  Plausible take. My first time using a coding agent was with Zed’s. As a sceptic, I was blown away. Two or weeks later Claude Code dropped and I haven’t used the Zed agent since. I canceled my subscription because 20 EUR/month for AI features I no longer use felt silly. And with the massive investment from Sequoia, and the real possibility of enshittification, I couldn’t mentally classify it as a monthly ‘donation’ to sponsor ongoing development either. That last part is just me maybe. But I’m sure they poured a lot of time into their (granted, very nice) agent, only for many users to switch to Claude shortly after release. Letting others build the agent but being the place where the agent get used seems like a smart move
  - kiney 1y ago
    I use the zed agent regularly. What does claude code do better?
malshe 1y ago
This might come off as a naive question so pardon me in advance for my ignorance. I got Claude Max just last week and I have been using it in the MacOS Terminal app. I also used it in Zed and VS Code terminals and faced no issues. So what is the advantage of using it natively like this?
- andruby 1y ago
  The post has a video included. More integrated interface seems useful.
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  You get a diff view of the edits CC is making to your project and there's a mode where you editor's focus follows where CC is editing in your project.
  - malshe 1y ago
    Thanks. Diff view sounds useful
  - CharlesW 1y ago
    BTW, you get this in VS Code, too. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrations https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrati...
- kridsdale3 1y ago
  If you're going to live in the terminal, please do yourself a favor and replace Terminal.app with iTerm2, and replace bash with zsh.
  - iyn 1y ago
    > and replace bash with zsh I highly recommend trying fish, I wish I’ve switched earlier
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zeld4 1y ago
the integration is nice, but has some rough edges, I ran into situations that things becomes hard to stop
dimgl 1y ago
I tried it and I think it's still missing a few important features. - I don't want to constantly auto-accept. The point of auto-accept is that it auto-accepts. Seems like a bug. - It'd be great if I could go back to a specific message and delete the ones I don't want, similar to the CLI version. - Where is Plan Mode? Maybe I just couldn't figure out how to get to it. - I can't easily see Background Tasks. - How do I change models? - How do I create new sessions (via /new for instance)? Why is `/clear` not supported? - I don't want to see the entirety of the edits in the terminal. Can they be collapsed by default? Or maybe show a preview?
fabbbbb 1y ago
Their landing page via Safari manages to crash my iPhone 11 Pro repeatedly, namely crashing Safari but also another app and the Bluetooth connections - had not seen that before so they are clearly innovative.
- tymscar 1y ago
  Honestly, I’d love to know why that happens. Can you take a look at the logs? On Mac, you can do it through the Console app, and on Linux, through idevicesyslog.
legrandmag 1y ago
Bnbn
jackhuman 1y ago
Zed has really good vim bindings + mix of native shortcuts making a powerful workflow. The window management keyboard shortcuts are great and is the main reason I switched from some vscode use. Its kind of what I wanted neovim + tmux to be with less work and setup. Zed doesn’t have file delete undo and I found the AI autocomplete to be so bad I had to turn it off. I still use vscode for work. Zed is kind of in a purgatory state where its lacking in way to be a main for many folks but its close. Just the AI focus is sadly the best way for it to keep investments going, but are really not the top things I think Zed needs.
- phist_mcgee 1y ago
  I wish it natively supported vimrc, I dislike having to rewrite all my bindings in zed format.
tdhz77 1y ago
I got charged $20 by an old app key because I thought it worked with Claude max like Claude code does. Does it work with subscriptions? What a waste of $20. Buyer beware.
deevus 1y ago
Immediately crashed for me on Arch Linux. Possibly related to whatever is causing this crash: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37247 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37247 I've been seeing a lot of crashes of late
Aeolun 1y ago
I think it's just a TAD annoying that this stupid thing uses API key based cost when it has a perfectly good x20 subscription to work with. I just burned through my entire API budget.
- nsonha 1y ago
  Am I reading this wrong, they added support for Claude Code, which should work with your Anthropic sub. The Claude via API that has always been there is not what they're talking about in this anoucement
  - Aeolun 1y ago
    Which is exactly why I expected it to use my existing subscription, but apparently their integrated Claude Code decided to use the Claude API key I had set in Zed. Which I didn’t notice until my whole balance ran out.
raylad 1y ago
Does this use the API or can it use the Claude subscription? That wasn't stated or perhaps I missed it.
- raflueder 1y ago
  I've been using with a subscription, both API and subs work.
curtisszmania 1y ago
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mickgardner 1y ago
How exactly does this work? I have Zed, I have Claude Code, I can't get the two working together.
agrippanux 1y ago
I love Zed but this has all the hallmarks of something being totally rushed out the door. It works off the Claude Code SDK, which mean it doesn't support many of the built in slash commands - it doesn't support /compact, which is 100% necessary because when you use this implementation enough, you'll eventually get a "Prompt too long" error message with no ability to do anything about it. Since you can't see how far you are in the context window, it's a deal breaker, since you have to start a fresh chat and might run out of room before you can ask it to create a summary prompt for continuing. There is no way to switch models that I can tell - I think it just picks up on your default model - and there is no way to switch to Plan mode, which has become absolutely crucial to my workflow. I didn't see Zed picking up on problems reported in the IDE, it was defaulting to running 'tsc -b' in my directories. At this point it's better to run a terminal inside Zed and work from there. The official response in the Zed Discord has been "talk to your local Anthropic rep" to get them to support Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
- mi_lk 1y ago
  Seems like those issues are largely limited by SDK so urging Anthropic to adopt is the only realistic move
- manmal 1y ago
  Tbf I never use /compact but clear instead, and load in the relevant context anew. I just haven’t seen compacted context to be very useful, so far.
  - beefsack 1y ago
    The model is usually so confused after a /compact I also prefer a /clear. I set up my directives to maintain a work log for all work that I do. I instruct Claude Code to maintain a full log of the conversation, all commands executed including results, all failures as well as successes, all learnings and discoveries, as well as a plan/task list including details of what's next. When context is getting full, I do a /clear and start the new session by re-reading the work log and it is able to jump right back into action without confusion. Work logs are great because the context becomes portable - you can share it between different tools or engineers and can persist the context for reuse later if needed.
phplovesong 1y ago
Please keep the slop away from the editor.
bestest 1y ago
I would've probably switched from JetBrains to Zed already. But Zed has no vertical tabs support. I can't believe people are ok with horizontally layed out tabs.
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kar1181 1y ago
Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products). I just hope I'm wrong about the medium term impact of the VC funding but rushing AI AI AI out seems to be a sign of that rather than fixing fundamental issues that remain such as the ugly font rendering.
- ramon156 1y ago
  Zed being OS is 100% what's keeping me from moving away. If anything happens you just fork it and accept it as-is
  - kar1181 1y ago
    Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpulled.
  - tempaccount420 1y ago
    VS Code is also open source but a lot of Microsoft's extensions for it are closed source. I hope Zed won't go the same path.
- zeld4 1y ago
  You basically have to choose from - Zed: VC funded open source - Sublime Text: indie closed source None is ideal, but I guess we all know why.
preaching5271 1y ago
I tried using Zed with TypeScript and after 5 mins I uninstalled the app.
Syzygies 1y ago
This interests me but they don't address practical Claude Code Opus 4.1 use at scale. I have a $200/month Anthropic Max subscription that I use for help in exploring and coding my math research. As of now no AI model can compete with Opus 4.1 for helping me with my most challenging tasks. I try every one I can. Gemini 2.5 Pro is great for code review and a second opinion, but drives off the road when it takes the wheel. I tried a $100/monthly plan and spent $20 in an hour the first time I went over; an API key is not a practical way to use Opus 4.1. There are plenty of concerns using Clause Code in a terminal, that Zed could address. Mainly, I can't "see over AI's shoulder" so I need to also test. The most careful extension I coded was terminal sessions we could share as equal participants. Nevertheless, as a rule I'd attribute my relative success to just living with shortcomings, as if a "partner that snores". AI loses track of the current directory all the time, or forgets my variable naming and comment conventions? Just keep going, fix it later. How can I get equivalent value to my Max plan, using Claude Code Opus 4.1 with Zed?
- m13rar 1y ago
  I use zed and claude code side by side right now. I haven't tried out the newly released assisted agent mode with Zed. Yes Opus has been good with instruction following and same with Gemini for 2nd opinions and brainstorming. They're not perfect but definitely I see plenty of value in both tools as far as they are reliable services. I don't like the cloud based functioning of the models as the experience is extremely flaky and not reliable. I've gound OpenAI Codex and the models in codex too be more reliable in responses and consistency of the quality service. I would still prefer to have a fully locally hosted equivalent of what ever the state of the art coding assisstant models to speed up work. That will take time though as in with every technological evolution. We will be stuck with time sharing for sometime haha. Until the resource aspect of this technology scales and economizes to become ubiquitous.
- faangguyindia 1y ago
  >h Opus 4.1 for helping me with my most challenging tasks I switched to gemini 2.5 pro, after some prompt tweaking nothing really beats in actual coding tasks imho.
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remorses 1y ago
No support for multiple agents at the same time is a non starter
sgrytoyr 1y ago
If they could add support for remote development (meaning the claude code instance runs on the remote server in the same folder that you have already opened as a remote/ssh project in Zed) and add a way to paste images in Zed and have them interpreted by CC on the server, this would really be a killer feature. As someone who’s running a development agency I need to have tens of dev environments for different client projects running at the same time, and being able to switch between them multiple times every day (often from multiple client computers), so a remote server is the only way to go–I don’t want all of that stuff running on my Macs. Nowadays I also have tens of CCs running on the dev server, switching between them using tmux, which works great, but the lack of support for pasting images through the terminal/ssh/tmux has been a real bummer. It would be great if Zed found a way to bridge that gap.
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reboot7417 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but Zed is asking me to either login via claude /login or use the Anthropic API key. How do I configure it with Base API URL?
jimmyshoes 1y ago
Fine. Cool step for Zed to push ACP, and I think this is the right direction for the IDE space. But tbh if it’s not as frictionless as the Codex IDE extension in a Zed-skinned VSCode, it doesn’t matter. Tried giving Claude and CC many chances, but the cognitive load of constantly managing a hard context window is DOA. Codex w/gpt-5 is on par if not better than any of Anthropic’s solutions at this point, and the ubiquity (web, CLI, IDE) + UX consistency of Codex under one account/plan just dominates any marginal value of using a different model at a higher price. Codex just works. Then it keeps working. Then it keeps working. Any solution that wants to compete with OAI’s latest hostile takeover attempt has to match then beat on “unlimited/anywhere/frictionless” UX across platforms AND price ($200/mo all in). I don’t see a good way out of this for most, except through major spend on playing catchup. Guess that’s why Anthropic just raised again. Cursor is clearly trying to play, but they will always be a markup product until they launch their own SOTA model. Is Gemini still alive?

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giancarlostoro 1y ago

Zed is my favorite editor in a long time, and thats without diving into its AI support.

wraptile 1y ago
Really love Zed after working in it full time for a month now and pay their 20$ sub tier to support them even when I rarely use the LLM integration beyond the auto-complete. At first I was very dismissive of it due to being Apple-first but they've turned it around with really good Linux support and it seems like Windows soon as well!

koakuma-chan 1y ago

I just installed it and it seems changing mode is unsupported? I can't figure out how to switch to plan mode.

Aeolun 1y ago
I think the article mentions this not yet being supported by the SDK, and therefore by the editor.
- adastra22 1y ago
  Ah, if it is using the SDK, that is a big limitation. The SDK is nice, but it is meant to provide support for backend use of Claude Code, not integrating an interactive session.
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throwawa14223 1y ago

Zed used to be a good editor but it is increasingly LLM infested.

Sparkle-san 1y ago
Just disable it. It seems like they've made is as simple as possible to do so while also being realistic about what it takes to make a successful (read: profitable) IDE the year 2025.
- runarberg 1y ago
  Given the state of information technology in 2025 I think your parent has a good reason to believe AI features ruins everything. It is common in well funded (read VC funded) technology to start with an easy toggle to disable, and then slowly make opt-out ever harder to completely accomplish. Disable 3rd party tracking ads on google platforms used to be a simple toggle as well.
  - stavros 1y ago
    You can think that AI ruins everything, or that tracking ads ruin everything, but the reality is that VC investment ruins everything, because it turns you from the customer to the product. I guess the eventual culprit is capitalism, where profit is the ultimate goal for everything, so there will never be a single product that is not enshittified in this way. The best part? If you don't like it, there's nothing you can do! It's the whole culture.
- stavros 1y ago
  I've found that the sort of people who complain about AI or cryptocurrency don't care if it can be disabled. The mere fact that such functionality exists taints the product for them. I can't say I understand the reasons (I like AI functionality), but that's what I've noticed.
  - microflash 1y ago
    I do care that it can be disabled. My problem with such functionality is that it becomes the sole focus of the development team, drifting their attention away from improving core experiences, such as language and plugin support, polishing ergonomics, and pruning papercuts.

extr 1y ago

Zed is so great, I do wish they would focus just a little bit more on bringing the UI just a bit more up to parity with VS Code, I would switch full time.

sirodoht 1y ago
What do you feel is missing from the UI?
- tmdh 1y ago
  I feel like the UI is not as smooth as VSCode. There is a slight lag when scrolling.
  - Longhanks 1y ago
    Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust? ...and now they lose to a web app?
    - seanssel 1y ago
      I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they're used to a smooth scroll animation in VS Code or something? Zed feels snappier/lighter in just about every way to me.
      - sayrer 1y ago
        No kidding. It is /so/ fast. It has remote development like VS Code, and most of the features I use, so it's my main thing now. Claude Code was the only thing that made me wince, since I wondered if I was living in the dark ages. VS Code of course has many more extensions, but I don't use that many.
    - sapiogram 1y ago
      There's a reason everyone writes their GUI apps in Electron nowadays. Browser have spent 30 years figuring out fast rendering, it's hard to beat that, even with native code.

ncdlek 1y ago

I wish someone integrate qwen-coder as well

jimmydoe 1y ago
qwen keep rebase gemeni so I guess just wait?
sieabahlpark 1y ago
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leoh 1y ago
Zed "just works" with ollama, so if you install a qwen modal locally you're set.
eli 1y ago
Is that much different from just using the Zed agent with Qwen via API?
- vitorgrs 1y ago
  Qwen-Coder is free.
pbd 1y ago
agreed. waiting for qwen here as well.
shallow-mind 1y ago
I actually works already, just add new agent definition: --- "Local QWEN": { "command": "/usr/local/bin/qwen", "args": [ "--experimental-acp" ], "env": {} }, ---

faangguyindia 1y ago

Does anyone have python library for ACP? Looking to integrate my agent with this.

apwell23 1y ago

what i am missing by using claude cli with nvim. i don't understand why editor integration needed.

nertzy 1y ago
The editor treats edits from Claude Code as a first class citizen. You can easily review, approve, rollback, etc. Claude's changes in a curated experience that is much faster than digging around in diffs or needing to approve each edit as it is proposed. https://zed.dev/agentic https://zed.dev/agentic
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- apwell23 1y ago
  i open my nvim on a socket and tell calude code cli about it. my claude.md has a line "look for lsp errors when you are done editing" so it communicates with neovim on the socket and gets whatever it needs from editor.
- unshavedyak 1y ago
  Yea, having tried claude code a lot over the last couple months reviewing code is the #1 job in my view. Any tool that helps you do that more quickly and easily is essential to guarding from slop slip through. What a world heh.
manojlds 1y ago
It's just about polish and tightness of integration or may even be lack of it. Claude Code for VSCode is basically Claude Code running in VSCode terminal with some integrations for open file, selections and diffs.

jm4 1y ago

Not sure if anyone from Zed is here. I tried this out and got the following error: Internal error: { "details": "can't load supported slash commands" }

cmclaughlin 1y ago
I got this error too. Tried restarting zed and restarting my computer, but neither resolved it.
kreutz 1y ago
I got this same error. I restarted Zed, and it fixed itself.
- jm4 1y ago
  Thanks. I tried that. Didn't work.
pram 1y ago
Same!
rtfeldman 1y ago
We just pushed a fix! Here's how to get it: - Start a new Claude Code Thread, which will kick off the background download of the new Claude Code ACP adapter. - Wait a few seconds, then start another Claude Code Thread. The new thread will use the updated one. We're working on a nicer UX for getting updated versions, which we'll definitely ship before Claude Code support leaves beta!
- jm4 1y ago
  Thanks! It successfully installed this time, but now I have a new error: Internal error: { "details": "Failed to intialize Claude Code.\n\nThis may be caused by incorrect MCP server configuration, try disabling them." } I logged in via Claude CLI using my subscription.
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peterson_lock 1y ago

> Credit balance is too low I have a subscription to Claude. What gives?

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dcre 1y ago
When you run Claude Code it lets you pick between API key and Claude subscription login. It sounds like it found an API key in your env and is trying to use that. You may have to find a way to trigger a login to get you into your subscription account.
- unshavedyak 1y ago
  In the terminal based Claude Code, use /logout and /login to switch billing iirc.
- peterson_lock 1y ago
  Yep, that was it. I had an Anthropic API Key set in Zed. Resetting that (after typing /login in the agent window) did the trick!

zelphirkalt 1y ago

Recently I set up a virtual machine running GNU/Linux on Windows, so that I can continue to use Emacs and all my usual tools for developing software, while I am waiting for a friend to make a move in a turn based game. I decided to give Doom Emacs a try. Well, I like the keybindings so far. However, it got issues. When I use neotree, it gets confused with windows (the Emacs term "window", not desktop windows, or the OS). Also it has already crashed twice. Once I even lost some code, which I had to write again. Unacceptable. Why was there not even an Emacs backup file for the file I was editing? Anyway, today I thought: "Why not try one of these other editors in that VM and see, if I like any?" Yesterday I looked again at LunarVim's website. While LunarVim seems to look pretty, it has a lot of dependencies, including pip, npm, and more. Seems like it is installing stuff from everywhere. Not so confidence inspiring, especially pip and npm installs. And just now I see this Zed blog post linked on HN! But, unfortunately the website is not inspiring much confidence either. Can anyone explain to me, why I cannot see any _text_ on all of zed.dev, without running JS? I mean, I probably know the answer, or some possible answers, but man, that's already such a turnoff, I already doubt the editor is any good now. Would be good, if they could fix their website, and make simple text, simple text again, accessible and all that. Please get some craftsmanship into this website. EDIT: 'pparently I said something some people don't want to hear, lol.

rvnx 1y ago
Lucky you because for me, for some reason, their website is randomly down when I click to change page: Web server (host) is returning an unknown error Error code 520.
Karrot_Kream 1y ago
I recently un-borked my emacs config and re-downloaded elisp into my brain so I'd be happy to help walking you through the emacs stuff. I haven't used emacs on Windows natively in a long time but I did it for years and found it worked quite well so you may want to try that again. FWIW emacs these days has native LSP support (eglot) and native tree-sitter supported, but you'll need to grab tree-sitter libraries and LSP servers. For MacOS I found just using brew to install most of these works great, and I wonder if Windows can't work the same way. If you're in a VM you should just be able to have your package manager do the work. LLM support in emacs is still a bit primitive but there are packages like emacs claude-code that are changing things. Personally I wrote an elisp function which grabs the filename of the emacs window relative to the project root and copies it so that I can just paste it into claude code and have it ask questions or do things. ``` (defun copy-buffer-file-name-from-project-root () "Copy the relative path of the buffer in this project to the kill ring" (interactive) (kill-new (file-relative-name (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)) (project-root (project-current))))) ``` if you're curious but depending on how you have your clipboards setup with the kill ring, you may need to modify this. --- As far as fighting the JS fight on the Zed website, well, I think this thread isn't one of those upvote-anti-JS-rant threads that spring up on this site all the time so shrug.

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benbristow 1y ago

Still no Windows support for Zed, meh.

yobert 1y ago
It will come! Linux support is only recently getting good. They'll get there.

Yhippa 1y ago

Naive question: is using Claude Code from the command line or in these tools like VSC or Zed different from using it in the native app on a desktop? Is that because it has access to your codebase?

ascorbic 1y ago
Not tried with Zed yet, but in VS Code it's mostly the same except you can view the diffs in the editor, and can give context from the open file. I think it can also see errors from the editor.
dostick 1y ago
After having troubles with Claude desktop not properly updating canvas document, I found that apparently Claude Code is same as desktop one plus you can use it not just for code but documents in VS Code.
james_marks 1y ago
Not just your codebase, but also a wide range of *nix tooling. Night and day to working on the CLI vs an IDE.
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josefrichter 1y ago
In Elixir/Rails (and newly React) world you can connect Clade Desktop to Tidewave, which gives you pretty close integration with codebase and CLI tools. That makes the experience somewhat similar to running Claude Code in editor's terminal, or now directly connected in Zed. I think basically all these tools are trying to integrate all the stuff together and find the best way to do that, so that you don't need to be copy-pasting stuff around, jumping between tools, etc.

ZpJuUuNaQ5 1y ago

I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and dozens of extensions based on either a technology stack or a project - it would be really difficult to find a good reason to throw it all away. The idea of switching between IDEs does not appeal to me either. I do use Neovim a little bit too, but most of that usage time was spent on configuration.

pimeys 1y ago
It's really interesting point of view. I'm one of those people who avoid using VSCode at any cost. It's slow, it's bloated, the UI is not great, and it's slowly being locked down by Microsoft. If Zed would not exist, I would be using helix, neovim, or emacs as I did before.
- torben-friis 1y ago
  It’s not at all slow when compared to IntelliJ products or similar. It doesn’t compete with editors, it competes with IDEs.
- hu3 1y ago
  Interestingly I disagree with all your points about VSCode. It's fast, barebones by default, UI is minimal and it's Open Source enough that competitors forked from it. I guess YMMV because there is a comment in this post from another user about Zed being sluggish.
  - pimeys 1y ago
    I tried VSCode many times in my life and just hated the experience so much. It put me away from GUI editors for years, didn't want to try any of them. So ugly and so sluggish. Zed was the first one that put me to rethink my position. It is so snappy on my Linux workstation and I don't have any issues with it's GUI. I finally switched from vim et.al. But I know I have "weird" opinions, I also really dislike Apple products and their software.

csar 1y ago

Really excited for this. I'm not sure if it supports ESC-ESC (and whether the SDK supports it) but I'm excited to try. If not, I hope Anthropic will add it soon since that's a key feature for fixing mistakes.

lvl155 1y ago

I tried so many times to switch but I’ve reached a conclusion that Zed sucks. It doesn’t even properly support Python out of the box. UI is crap.

1zael 1y ago

Zed lacks an ecosystem for plugins, which is a huge drawback for me. The native debugging UX is cool, but I can get this w/ my VSCode plugins.

dpatterbee 1y ago
This seems obviously untrue. https://zed.dev/extensions https://zed.dev/extensions
- tylergetsay 1y ago
  VSCode has ~60k extensions last I checked
- 1zael 1y ago
  VSCode has 60k+ extensions vs Zed's 744. I'm pretty sure there's a clear winner here.
  - alehlopeh 1y ago
    Many of which were found to have been compromised with malware and have after having been installed millions of times. Extensions are an attack surface emdash I don’t see why it’s better to have more than anyone could possibly ever audit.
- paraboul 1y ago
  extentions in Zed are just languages support and themes.

FabHK 1y ago

Funny, when I read > Escape the Terminal it does not sound like a good thing to me: a) the terminal is fine; b) AI should not escape anything.

bicijay 1y ago

The only reason i didnt move to zed from jetbrains yet is the lack of a more mature Git UI. Other than that, great editor, very fast.

brabel 1y ago
Is it really comparable?? I use JB IDEs heavily and when I tried Zed a few months ago it felt more like Notepad than IntelliJ. Maybe that’s what you’re looking for and I am sure that’s fast, but they seem to have quite different use cases.
pzmarzly 1y ago
After moving to Zed I also missed good Git integration that I had in VSCode with GitLens. That pushed me to finally try Jujutsu instead of Git, since it has a CLI (and TUI and GUI, if that's your thing) that are perfectly usable by mere mortals. Now I feel as fast as when I had the Git integration, despite using the terminal. But if I had stuck to Git, trying GitButler or Sublime Merge was the next option on my TODO list.

skeptrune 1y ago

It's interesting that VSCode has its own Claude code extension which works well and does most of this. Zed has a lot of these micro-battles ahead where it has to spend money building solutions that VSCode's community shipped without their core team putting in any effort at all.

josefrichter 1y ago
Does it? Or do you mean the integration when you run Claude Code from the terminal opened in VSCode? (which is already pretty good)
- skeptrune 1y ago
  It does, there's an extension you can install which is even a bit better.
mikaylamaki 1y ago
Actually, Anthropic built that integration themselves.

atonse 1y ago

My main issue with claude code is running multiple ones in parallel. I don't want to manually do all the git worktree stuff, I just want claude to handle it for me. So if Zed automatically handles that (where there's a worktree per thread) I can see the appeal. Apart from that, I'm already using Tower to view the changes so I'm not really sure what the value here is. I tried installing it, and got an error "can't load supported slash commands" – not sure what that means.

ZachSaucier 1y ago
Ona makes this easy: https://ona.com/ https://ona.com/
camwest 1y ago
Same, logged an issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-code-acp/issues/18 https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-code-acp/issues/18
nosefurhairdo 1y ago
I suspect Zed will aim to tackle this issue via DeltaDB: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-operation-level-version-control https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...
nicoslepicos 1y ago
You should try Magnet for this! (www.magnet.run) https://www.loom.com/share/ceabf385871e45b88fcb512b6de6b684 https://www.loom.com/share/ceabf385871e45b88fcb512b6de6b684

not_your_vase 1y ago

I just installed it on my EndeavourOS box. I opened it, it asked my which theme I want. I couldn't click, and suddenly it went into unresponsive mode. A minute later I killed it and uninstalled it. I keep trying this editor every few months ever since it was announced, but I always have similar experiences. I remember once I managed to start actually editing something before the GUI started to disappear. But hey, it has AI.

jitl 1y ago
This is why I try to avoid building/supporting desktop Linux gui apps

unshavedyak 1y ago

I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config) My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allow these sort of text editing primitives to work in new editors, as it seems to be considerable friction.

yes_but_no 1y ago
If you are already familiar with Vim bindings is Helix's object then action really worth that much?
- unshavedyak 1y ago
  For me, definitely. Plus it's quite the muscle memory switch. I switched to Kakoune ages ago, and then eventually Helix because i liked its design a bit more.
- sxg 1y ago
  I thought the same, but I gave Helix a shot for fun a couple years ago and never looked back. It really does feel better/more ergonomic, but the greatest benefit is that almost everything you need is built in. I spent way too much time fiddling with Vim and NeoVim configs.
Karrot_Kream 1y ago
Helix seems to have good LSP support from what I can tell? The only language I use at $WORK that doesn't have full support is GraphQL which lacks auto indent. If you want to try something similar to Helix in emacs, there's meow-mode. While I'm not a helix user myself, it shouldn't be too difficult to get meow to work like helix.
diegs 1y ago
I agree, I've fantasized about an editor with a truly pluggable editing model which is decoupled from the other parts. Yi was kind of designed like this, I believe. You could compile in an emacs-like model, a vim-like model, or presumably make your own model. I've used Helix and Kakoune in addition to Emacs and Vim, but dealing with the limitations/featureset/plugin treadmill gets a little tiring. I have been following Zed, and it seems that they have rearchitected things to enable adding Helix mode and making the editing model a bit more modular, but it's still fairly new. They are fixing bugs pretty quickly. I will have to try it again. They have a nice discussion here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447 They reference Ki, which also looks cool, and they out some of Helix's inconsistencies in their comparison: https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/docs/comparisons/ https://ki-editor.github.io/ki-editor/docs/comparisons/ I prefered Kakoune to Helix (it was more consistent). But to your point, being able to swap these things out more easily would let you choose an editor based on features, and not tradeoff between features and an ergonomic editing model. Ironically you can use Ki inside of VSCode (and I know you can use Vim that way too), but VSCode is so darn bloated and slow...

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srid 1y ago

Note: if you use SSH-based remote development, this doesn't work. https://x.com/sridca/status/1963271904384401886 https://x.com/sridca/status/1963271904384401886

johntash 1y ago
zed crashes completely now for me when using a remote env over ssh since a couple releases ago.
cedws 1y ago
That's unfortunate. I use Zed and I'm moving towards containerising my dev environment (using SSH remote dev to connect Zed to the container) because all this agentic stuff seems like a security nightmare. At the very least I want to restrict the blast radius to my repos dir.
- pimeys 1y ago
  I would give them a week or less to support this. They've been improving the debugger so fast, it will take them no time to support remote claude code connections.
achairapart 1y ago
Any reason for this? Is it something temporary or it will never be supported?
mxs_ 1y ago
Remote dev isn't very good in Zed, unfortunately. For some reason they chose not to apply the local editor's settings to a remote session by default. Every remote has its own config file. Questionable choice, imo
mcintyre1994 1y ago
IIRC it doesn’t work in Cursor either, and their own AI sidebar was getting weird issues too. Mostly switched back to VSCode for SSH workflows because of that.

EXHades 1y ago

zed extension is too bad to be used as a full-fledged extensible editor, as many features and interfaces are missing.

ppeetteerr 1y ago

I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-within-zed/ https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more accurate in Cursor). I am glad to hear that Zed got a round of funding. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed This will go a long way to creating real competition to Cursor in the form of a quality IDE not built on VSCode

cnqso 1y ago
What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
- shreddit 1y ago
  Does it really? At the end of the day i need it to do my job. Ideal values don’t help me doing my job. So i choose the editor best suited and the features i need. And that’s not zed at the moment.
  - mikepurvis 1y ago
    There's an analogue here with programming language iteration— Python, Ruby and friends showed what the semantics were that were needed, and then a decade or two later, Go and Rust took those semantics and put them in compiled, performance-oriented languages. Electron has been a powerful tool for quickly iterating UIs and plugin architectures in VSCode, Brackets, Atom, etc, now the window is open for a modern editor to deliver that experience without the massive memory footprint and UI stalls.
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jryio 1y ago

What most of these comments are missing is the attempt at standardization and unification. There are a lot of comments that people need X feature in order to switch to Y editor. While that may be true and your particular workflow requires certain features, what is overlooked is the survival pressure for editors. It appears that our industry is moving towards adoption, sometimes mandatory, of AI coding agents. Regardless of your feelings on the topic, having good tooling to support this effort comes down to: switching costs, compatibility with existing editors, and a strong ecosystem of third party extensions. While Cursor/Windsurf jumped the gun on bespoke editor integrations with LLMs - the adoption of MCP and other SDKs for coding agents means it's plug and play. The full feature set will be in every editor connected to every agent. I think Zed wins on having the lowest switching costs for most developers. Paying down generic solutions like Agent Client Protocol (AC) now is a good strategy. It took multiple parties coming together for us to get TLS, OAuth 2.0, and ECMAScript. I don't see why most editors should behave like hand crafted musical instruments when in reality they are much more akin to high quality knives in a kitchen (sure you have your favorite knife set and bring it from job to job, but at the end of the day you can be just as productive with a different knife when necessary).

Shank 1y ago
> I don't see why most editors should behave like hand crafted musical instruments when in reality they are much more akin to high quality knives in a kitchen (sure you have your favorite knife set and bring it from job to job, but at the end of the day you can be just as productive with a different knife when necessary). This is such a poor analogy. Yes, a good chef can make do with a different knife, but there is a reason why chefs pay for significantly higher quality knives, keep them sharpened, and treat them with diligence and care, than other kitchen tools. A blunt knife can actually be dangerous. Consequently, a lot of chefs buy knives that are effectively hand crafted / forged knives out of this relentless pursuit of quality. > What most of these comments are missing is the attempt at standardization and unification. > While that may be true and your particular workflow requires certain features, what is overlooked is the survival pressure for editors. I think your general perception is not something I agree with. I want to use software I enjoy using. Programming is a creative exercise for me, and I want to use the tools I enjoy. If a tool is not enjoyable to use, I do not want to use it. Sometimes, productivity does increase enjoyment, but sometimes it doesn't. For example, arguably I would have been more productive in my Java days if I used Eclipse, but because the editor was so bad, I preferred to learn the APIs myself and use Sublime Text instead. I also don't think I'm sympathetic to the survival of any particular editor. Software comes and goes, and sustainably built business models will prevail. All of the AI-first editors hinge on this being the right iteration of this technology, and we simply do not have a long enough timeframe or context to know if this is truly the best way to write code using AI. MCP/ACP, whatever else might be the best strategy for now, but I think it's too early for anyone to suggest that we've come to the right conclusion forever.

dang 1y ago

Recent and related: Agent Client Protocol (ACP) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147 - Aug 2025 (93 comments)

skhameneh 1y ago

I like Zed in concept. I like Zed in the architectural and foundational aspects. I want more tools like Zed to exist. But, I find Zed challenging to adopt due to random nuances. First, settings management is a mixed bag and sometimes I just want a quick way to open the "settings.json" from the settings pane without fussing around. Then I'd like the "settings.json" to stay open (reopen) on a restart of Zed. Then I'd like the ability to use an LLM that doesn't have native tool calling support, which Zed seems to be the only app I've used that doesn't have a workaround. Then I'd like the UI to be a little easier to navigate as a new user, it feels a bit scattered and overwhelming at times. I haven't used Zed much and I may give it another shot (soon), but it very much feels like a tool built by engineers for engineers... Which is great for power users, but seems not so great for new adopters. I don't think the shortcomings are a blocker, but they are the reason I haven't adopted Zed. The shortcomings are just enough for me to take a step back and say "maybe I'll try again later".

honeycrispy 1y ago
The nuance situation is rapidly improving. I had several minor issues with Zed ~6 months ago, and most of them have been patched away.
- bradgessler 1y ago
  While true, I've noticed there's so many changes between Zed and the plugins that other things break, and it's hard to track down exactly what broke.
bbor 1y ago
I spent a while trying to set it up, as I share your general take on their ethos. Personally, I'm okay with a 'power user'-focused text editor, even! But the relative lack of syntax highlighting options got me to give up. Maybe I'm just spoiled from SublimeText's dope, complex, extensible system for specifying "contexts" in themes, but Zed was just nowhere near enough for me. The keybinding system is also nuts if you turn on Vim mode, but I think I'd eventually get used to that. But functions need to be a different color than arguments, which need to be a different color than local variables... Just non-negotiable. I look forward to trying it again sometime soon! The AI features seem rad, this included.

neurostimulant 1y ago

It's great that Zed adding this very useful feature, but isn't this effectively cannibalize their own AI subscription plans? Why pay zed $20 when you already pay for claude code and can use it in the assistant panel? You might still want the edit prediction feature, but then why pay zed $20 when you can pay $10 github copilot and can use it to power zed's edit prediction feature?

ricardobeat 1y ago
It’s also great that they’re willing to risk that, in the name of a potentially better user experience. That’s what gets them to win in the long run, not building another walled garden.
chillfox 1y ago
Could be cheaper, maybe? I have been using zed a fair bit with clause api and the 50 free prompts a month that zed provide on the free plan works out to roughly $8 for an equivalent amount of code using the claude api. But no idea how it compares to the subscription plan.

btown 1y ago

As a VS Code + Claude Code user, I'm really excited to see progress here, because the official near-zero-config Claude Code IDE integration is... inflexible, at best. What if I want to send a subset of my open editor panes to Claude Code? What if I want Claude Code to open diffs for its edited files in a specific area/window, and silently open that file so that I can multitask on other things without it taking focus when it's done thinking? What if I want keyboard shortcuts for specific slash commands, or to trigger a slash command from another task? Having a robust open-source ecosystem that will let users fork and build customizable UI around coding agent experiences will make them even better, and the space will move even more quickly because the ecosystem won't split between different preferences for agent/model choice. It's an incredible time to be coding.

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pandemic_region 1y ago

I wish the release notes of Zed would contain less AI.*, and more focus on getting the core editor capabilities completed. I'm a fan though, don't get me wrong.

petcat 1y ago
They've been chasing nothing but AI crap for months. Maybe a year. They've stopped improving the core editor completely. I'm getting ready to just switch back to Sublime Text

yonisto 1y ago

I know it is not popular around here, but until Zed gets a windows version: Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead

audunw 1y ago
There is a Windows version if you're willing to use unofficial builds. I've been using it successfully for a few weeks. There's a few more rough corners than in the official Mac/Linux version, but it's usable.
- yonisto 1y ago
  Thanks. I might once I'll be in a mood to get frustrated by rough corners :-)

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dcre 1y ago

Glad to see this out so quickly. Like I said[0] on the Gemini announcement post, it feels like Zed is trying to get out of the business of iterating on agent logic and just let other people handle it. Any prompting secret sauce a) is trivial to copy, and b) gets eaten by the next model generation anyway. The capabilities of Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. seem to me to be converging. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045515

lemontheme 1y ago
Plausible take. My first time using a coding agent was with Zed’s. As a sceptic, I was blown away. Two or weeks later Claude Code dropped and I haven’t used the Zed agent since. I canceled my subscription because 20 EUR/month for AI features I no longer use felt silly. And with the massive investment from Sequoia, and the real possibility of enshittification, I couldn’t mentally classify it as a monthly ‘donation’ to sponsor ongoing development either. That last part is just me maybe. But I’m sure they poured a lot of time into their (granted, very nice) agent, only for many users to switch to Claude shortly after release. Letting others build the agent but being the place where the agent get used seems like a smart move
- kiney 1y ago
  I use the zed agent regularly. What does claude code do better?

malshe 1y ago

This might come off as a naive question so pardon me in advance for my ignorance. I got Claude Max just last week and I have been using it in the MacOS Terminal app. I also used it in Zed and VS Code terminals and faced no issues. So what is the advantage of using it natively like this?

andruby 1y ago
The post has a video included. More integrated interface seems useful.
trenchpilgrim 1y ago
You get a diff view of the edits CC is making to your project and there's a mode where you editor's focus follows where CC is editing in your project.
- malshe 1y ago
  Thanks. Diff view sounds useful
- CharlesW 1y ago
  BTW, you get this in VS Code, too. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrations https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrati...
kridsdale3 1y ago
If you're going to live in the terminal, please do yourself a favor and replace Terminal.app with iTerm2, and replace bash with zsh.
- iyn 1y ago
  > and replace bash with zsh I highly recommend trying fish, I wish I’ve switched earlier
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zeld4 1y ago

the integration is nice, but has some rough edges, I ran into situations that things becomes hard to stop

dimgl 1y ago

I tried it and I think it's still missing a few important features. - I don't want to constantly auto-accept. The point of auto-accept is that it auto-accepts. Seems like a bug. - It'd be great if I could go back to a specific message and delete the ones I don't want, similar to the CLI version. - Where is Plan Mode? Maybe I just couldn't figure out how to get to it. - I can't easily see Background Tasks. - How do I change models? - How do I create new sessions (via /new for instance)? Why is `/clear` not supported? - I don't want to see the entirety of the edits in the terminal. Can they be collapsed by default? Or maybe show a preview?

fabbbbb 1y ago

Their landing page via Safari manages to crash my iPhone 11 Pro repeatedly, namely crashing Safari but also another app and the Bluetooth connections - had not seen that before so they are clearly innovative.

tymscar 1y ago
Honestly, I’d love to know why that happens. Can you take a look at the logs? On Mac, you can do it through the Console app, and on Linux, through idevicesyslog.

legrandmag 1y ago

Bnbn

jackhuman 1y ago

Zed has really good vim bindings + mix of native shortcuts making a powerful workflow. The window management keyboard shortcuts are great and is the main reason I switched from some vscode use. Its kind of what I wanted neovim + tmux to be with less work and setup. Zed doesn’t have file delete undo and I found the AI autocomplete to be so bad I had to turn it off. I still use vscode for work. Zed is kind of in a purgatory state where its lacking in way to be a main for many folks but its close. Just the AI focus is sadly the best way for it to keep investments going, but are really not the top things I think Zed needs.

phist_mcgee 1y ago
I wish it natively supported vimrc, I dislike having to rewrite all my bindings in zed format.

tdhz77 1y ago

I got charged $20 by an old app key because I thought it worked with Claude max like Claude code does. Does it work with subscriptions? What a waste of $20. Buyer beware.

deevus 1y ago

Immediately crashed for me on Arch Linux. Possibly related to whatever is causing this crash: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37247 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37247 I've been seeing a lot of crashes of late

Aeolun 1y ago

I think it's just a TAD annoying that this stupid thing uses API key based cost when it has a perfectly good x20 subscription to work with. I just burned through my entire API budget.

nsonha 1y ago
Am I reading this wrong, they added support for Claude Code, which should work with your Anthropic sub. The Claude via API that has always been there is not what they're talking about in this anoucement
- Aeolun 1y ago
  Which is exactly why I expected it to use my existing subscription, but apparently their integrated Claude Code decided to use the Claude API key I had set in Zed. Which I didn’t notice until my whole balance ran out.

raylad 1y ago

Does this use the API or can it use the Claude subscription? That wasn't stated or perhaps I missed it.

raflueder 1y ago
I've been using with a subscription, both API and subs work.

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mickgardner 1y ago

How exactly does this work? I have Zed, I have Claude Code, I can't get the two working together.

agrippanux 1y ago

I love Zed but this has all the hallmarks of something being totally rushed out the door. It works off the Claude Code SDK, which mean it doesn't support many of the built in slash commands - it doesn't support /compact, which is 100% necessary because when you use this implementation enough, you'll eventually get a "Prompt too long" error message with no ability to do anything about it. Since you can't see how far you are in the context window, it's a deal breaker, since you have to start a fresh chat and might run out of room before you can ask it to create a summary prompt for continuing. There is no way to switch models that I can tell - I think it just picks up on your default model - and there is no way to switch to Plan mode, which has become absolutely crucial to my workflow. I didn't see Zed picking up on problems reported in the IDE, it was defaulting to running 'tsc -b' in my directories. At this point it's better to run a terminal inside Zed and work from there. The official response in the Zed Discord has been "talk to your local Anthropic rep" to get them to support Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP).

mi_lk 1y ago
Seems like those issues are largely limited by SDK so urging Anthropic to adopt is the only realistic move
manmal 1y ago
Tbf I never use /compact but clear instead, and load in the relevant context anew. I just haven’t seen compacted context to be very useful, so far.
- beefsack 1y ago
  The model is usually so confused after a /compact I also prefer a /clear. I set up my directives to maintain a work log for all work that I do. I instruct Claude Code to maintain a full log of the conversation, all commands executed including results, all failures as well as successes, all learnings and discoveries, as well as a plan/task list including details of what's next. When context is getting full, I do a /clear and start the new session by re-reading the work log and it is able to jump right back into action without confusion. Work logs are great because the context becomes portable - you can share it between different tools or engineers and can persist the context for reuse later if needed.

phplovesong 1y ago

Please keep the slop away from the editor.

bestest 1y ago

I would've probably switched from JetBrains to Zed already. But Zed has no vertical tabs support. I can't believe people are ok with horizontally layed out tabs.

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kar1181 1y ago

Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products). I just hope I'm wrong about the medium term impact of the VC funding but rushing AI AI AI out seems to be a sign of that rather than fixing fundamental issues that remain such as the ugly font rendering.

ramon156 1y ago
Zed being OS is 100% what's keeping me from moving away. If anything happens you just fork it and accept it as-is
- kar1181 1y ago
  Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpulled.
- tempaccount420 1y ago
  VS Code is also open source but a lot of Microsoft's extensions for it are closed source. I hope Zed won't go the same path.
zeld4 1y ago
You basically have to choose from - Zed: VC funded open source - Sublime Text: indie closed source None is ideal, but I guess we all know why.

preaching5271 1y ago

I tried using Zed with TypeScript and after 5 mins I uninstalled the app.

Syzygies 1y ago

This interests me but they don't address practical Claude Code Opus 4.1 use at scale. I have a $200/month Anthropic Max subscription that I use for help in exploring and coding my math research. As of now no AI model can compete with Opus 4.1 for helping me with my most challenging tasks. I try every one I can. Gemini 2.5 Pro is great for code review and a second opinion, but drives off the road when it takes the wheel. I tried a $100/monthly plan and spent $20 in an hour the first time I went over; an API key is not a practical way to use Opus 4.1. There are plenty of concerns using Clause Code in a terminal, that Zed could address. Mainly, I can't "see over AI's shoulder" so I need to also test. The most careful extension I coded was terminal sessions we could share as equal participants. Nevertheless, as a rule I'd attribute my relative success to just living with shortcomings, as if a "partner that snores". AI loses track of the current directory all the time, or forgets my variable naming and comment conventions? Just keep going, fix it later. How can I get equivalent value to my Max plan, using Claude Code Opus 4.1 with Zed?

m13rar 1y ago
I use zed and claude code side by side right now. I haven't tried out the newly released assisted agent mode with Zed. Yes Opus has been good with instruction following and same with Gemini for 2nd opinions and brainstorming. They're not perfect but definitely I see plenty of value in both tools as far as they are reliable services. I don't like the cloud based functioning of the models as the experience is extremely flaky and not reliable. I've gound OpenAI Codex and the models in codex too be more reliable in responses and consistency of the quality service. I would still prefer to have a fully locally hosted equivalent of what ever the state of the art coding assisstant models to speed up work. That will take time though as in with every technological evolution. We will be stuck with time sharing for sometime haha. Until the resource aspect of this technology scales and economizes to become ubiquitous.
faangguyindia 1y ago
>h Opus 4.1 for helping me with my most challenging tasks I switched to gemini 2.5 pro, after some prompt tweaking nothing really beats in actual coding tasks imho.
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remorses 1y ago

No support for multiple agents at the same time is a non starter

sgrytoyr 1y ago

If they could add support for remote development (meaning the claude code instance runs on the remote server in the same folder that you have already opened as a remote/ssh project in Zed) and add a way to paste images in Zed and have them interpreted by CC on the server, this would really be a killer feature. As someone who’s running a development agency I need to have tens of dev environments for different client projects running at the same time, and being able to switch between them multiple times every day (often from multiple client computers), so a remote server is the only way to go–I don’t want all of that stuff running on my Macs. Nowadays I also have tens of CCs running on the dev server, switching between them using tmux, which works great, but the lack of support for pasting images through the terminal/ssh/tmux has been a real bummer. It would be great if Zed found a way to bridge that gap.

yuyu74189w 1y ago

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reboot7417 1y ago

Maybe I'm missing something but Zed is asking me to either login via claude /login or use the Anthropic API key. How do I configure it with Base API URL?

jimmyshoes 1y ago

Fine. Cool step for Zed to push ACP, and I think this is the right direction for the IDE space. But tbh if it’s not as frictionless as the Codex IDE extension in a Zed-skinned VSCode, it doesn’t matter. Tried giving Claude and CC many chances, but the cognitive load of constantly managing a hard context window is DOA. Codex w/gpt-5 is on par if not better than any of Anthropic’s solutions at this point, and the ubiquity (web, CLI, IDE) + UX consistency of Codex under one account/plan just dominates any marginal value of using a different model at a higher price. Codex just works. Then it keeps working. Then it keeps working. Any solution that wants to compete with OAI’s latest hostile takeover attempt has to match then beat on “unlimited/anywhere/frictionless” UX across platforms AND price ($200/mo all in). I don’t see a good way out of this for most, except through major spend on playing catchup. Guess that’s why Anthropic just raised again. Cursor is clearly trying to play, but they will always be a markup product until they launch their own SOTA model. Is Gemini still alive?