Zed Agent

At a glance

What Zed Agent does

Inline completion, Chat, Multi-file edits, Edit prediction, MCP, BYO model, Threads

Best for

Native AI agent inside Zed with edit prediction, multi-file edits, and MCP support

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• Zed Agent only runs inside the Zed editor — your IDE is VS Code.
• Replit has its own built-in AI Agent — external integrations like Zed Agent cannot run inside the Replit web IDE.
• Zed Agent does not officially support Xcode. Use GitHub Copilot for Xcode or Direct API.
• Zed Agent has limited or no official Android Studio support. Use GitHub Copilot or JetBrains AI Assistant.
• Void Editor is BYO-API-key first — Zed Agent runs as an extension on top, which can work but isn't the intended Void workflow.
• Lapce has a small plugin ecosystem; Zed Agent may not have an official plugin yet.
• Positron is VS Code-based but tuned for R/Python data science — Zed Agent may install but is not officially supported.
• Zed Agent does not officially support RStudio — use direct API calls or the rstudio.cloud Copilot integration.
• Zed Agent does not officially support Spyder — use the direct API.
• Cursor Mobile only runs Cursor-managed agents and background tasks — local-only integrations like Zed Agent cannot run on the phone.
• Zed Agent does not officially support Eclipse — Copilot, Tabnine, and Codeium are the main supported options.
• Zed Agent does not officially support Apache NetBeans — Copilot and Tabnine are the main supported options.
• @codebase (Cursor) only works with Cursor built-in integration (yours is Zed Agent).
• Continue's codebase indexing only works when the integration is Continue.dev (yours is Zed Agent).
• Windsurf codebase indexing only works with Windsurf Cascade integration (yours is Zed Agent).
• Aider architect mode requires the Aider integration (yours is Zed Agent).