AI AGENTS
Zed Agent
by Zed Industries
Overview
Native AI coding agent in the Zed editor for reading, editing, navigating, and running code in developer projects.
Details
Zed Agent is Zed's native AI coding agent path inside the Zed editor. Official Zed documentation describes it as running in the Agent Panel and Threads Sidebar, using LLM providers, and integrating with project, editor, terminal, and review surfaces. The Agent Panel is described as a place to interact with AI agents that can read, write, and run code in a project for code generation, refactoring, debugging, documentation, and questions. Zed also documents built-in agent tools for reading, searching, editing the codebase, and running terminal commands in Agent Panel conversations.
When to Use
Use when you want an AI coding agent integrated directly into the Zed editor rather than a separate standalone coding tool. Use for project-level coding assistance where the agent needs to read search edit and run code from within editor workflows. Use for code generation refactoring debugging documentation help or asking questions about a project in Zed's Agent Panel.
Getting Started
- Open the Zed Agent documentation: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/zed-agent
- Review the AI overview documentation: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/overview
- Use the Agent Panel documentation to understand how Zed presents AI agent interactions: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/agent-panel
- Review the tools documentation for built-in capabilities such as reading
- searching
- editing
- and terminal command execution: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/tools
Key Features
- •Runs inside Zed's Agent Panel and Threads Sidebar
- •Uses Zed-configured LLM providers
- •Integrates with project
- •editor
- •terminal
- •and review surfaces
- •Can read
- •search
- •and edit a codebase
- •Can run terminal commands during Agent Panel conversations
- •Supports workflows described by Zed for code generation
- •refactoring
- •debugging
- •documentation
- •and project questions
Capabilities
- •code reading
- •code search
- •code editing
- •code navigation
- •terminal command execution
- •code generation
- •refactoring assistance
- •debugging assistance
- •documentation assistance
- •project question answering
Last updated Jun 22, 2026