Zed (Agent Panel) · Zed Industries
High-performance Rust editor (GPL, hit 1.0 in 2026) whose Agent Panel offers a native agent with profiles/tool-permissions and MCP, but whose real differentiator is the open Agent Client Protocol (ACP) that lets external agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode — which bring their own skills support) render diffs natively in-editor, plus first-in-class native Parallel Agents (April 2026).
Identity
| Homepage | https://zed.dev/ |
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| Repository | https://github.com/zed-industries/zed |
| License | open-source |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | ide |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ✓ yes |
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| Native models | Claude (via Zed AI plans) · GPT (OpenAI) · Gemini (Google) |
| Local models | ✓ yes |
| Pricing | freemium |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
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| Agent Skills support | partial |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | none |
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| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous → autonomous-local |
| Subagents | ? unknown |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | none-observed |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ○ no |
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| GitHub integration | ? unknown |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise