Claude Code Zed UI

[kdcokenny]

It would be absolutely killer if you guys were able to move claude code into the assistant panel.

I know it's a terminal interface so it already works with Zed but handling all of these changes via a terminal versus through the editor where you can easily make fine tuned edits would make a large difference in my opinion.

It doesn't seem to be open source so it may not be feasible but I wanted to throw this idea out there anyways.

[osdiab]

Related #24028

personally I think it would be really cool if the editor were decoupled from the agent experience. If I could just plug in Claude Code or whatever else comes out into any editor that supported some common protocol for agents, that would be sweeeet.

[fourcolors]

I'd like this too

[kdcokenny]

I would like to add to this that the source code for claude-code has been leaked and this could be extremely useful for the zed team to look into for inspiration as claude code really is amazing: https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2025/03/07/claude-code/#bootstrap-confidence-interval

[dstrelau]

The Claude Code SDK (aka "claude has a programmatic interface") seems like it would make this sort of integration possible. I'd love to see this, as I really like Zed's agent panel and diff view, but claude quality is very very good.

[Allmight97]

Agreed - but doesn't Anthropic need to include support for Zed as well such that it displays as an option for IDE integration? You can run CC within Zed terminal and it looks pretty, but it has no formal integration, just CC in the zed terminal. Can the Zed team work something out with Anthropic?

[JPBarringer]

I would love even a basic version of this as it also means I can leverage my Claude subscription instead of paying for API tokens. What would it take for an MVP release?

[JPBarringer]

I've gotten a proof of concept working, although it's pretty slow right now. Basically, there are two approaches

• direct API access via oAuth
• funnel everything through a local claude code installation that's already authenticated.

I've had to lean on the latter after a lot of mucking about trying the former. (Former should be doable but you need an application ID for oAuth and I didn't want to just clone the Claude Code one. There's probably more to explore here RE sharing credentials with a previously-authenticated Claude Code setup and thereby avoiding the authentication step.)

The CLI Docs demonstrate usage of the -P flag, which can provide streaming JSON output. I'm currently working in that direction. If I can get it working reasonably snappily, I'll let y'all know.

[alansammarone]

This Neovim plugin might be relevant:

🎯 TL;DR: When Anthropic released Claude Code with VS Code and JetBrains support, I reverse-engineered their extension and built this Neovim plugin. This plugin implements the same WebSocket-based MCP protocol, giving Neovim users the same AI-powered coding experience.

in particular the how it works section and protocol info.

[jsulopzs]

yes, it's a great inspiration for developing the plugin in Zed

[allpepper]

and that is why I use neovim =D

[Eigilak]

It would be awesome!

[yangcheng]

claude code already have support for vscode. would be awesome to add zed. basic things like share opened file and selected lines and make coding more fun

[aretrace]

This would be best, keeps the CC interface but allows you to use Zed and a additional "tool" along side with CC.

[JPBarringer]

Right now I'm continuing the related discussion here:

#33180

I think it's a relatively complex add for core (especially from an unknown developer like me) but it wouldn't require nearly as much change to add the ability to do this as an extension. Mainly we need a way to add an agent to the agents dropdown in the panel. (And route the conversation / express capabilities like tool use etc. ...not nothing but I think it's relatively constrained and there is lots of example code already from the existing implementations.)

[somtooo]

So correct me if im wrong. What your pushing for is to allow another agent in zed. At this rate how do you expect the company to successful financially?. You would rather pay $100 to anthropic to use their agent while giving zed $0 per month.

Why not we contribute to making zed's agent better than claude code so you pay one agent provider? If im missing anything lemme know.

[jiahaoxiang2000]

I think zed can really bring something unique to the market maybe it’s agentic coding at 120fps 🤣

Yes, we also love Zed! Its GPU-based rendering works great on my Linux Hyprland DE—much better than VSCode. We once created a PR for Zed and it was quickly accepted, unlike with VSCode, where PRs can take a lot longer. The Zed community is also the most active I’ve seen. I hope Zed keeps getting even better in the future. It’s been great communicating with you as well! @somtooo

[douglascamata]

This argument makes no sense. In VSCode (and forks) I can use soooo many different agents from different companies (i.e. Github Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini Code Assist, etc). I can also use no agents at all... literally just use the editor FOR FREE.

tl;dr: Zed adding some sort of integration, either built-in or via extension, with Claude Code will not make them go bankrupt. There are many people out there that use Zed without paying them any money. It's the opposite: this would bring even more users of Claude Code to discover Zed. Then it's up to Zed to try to convince people to drop Claude Code for their own agent.

[somtooo]

@douglascamata I’m not saying zed should ban other agents infact there’s discussions already on giving other agents the ability to integrate with zed. I’m saying as a zed user how can we make zeds own agents competitive. I’m thinking 10 yrs from now I want zed to be alive nd kicking at 144fps

[somtooo]

Most discussions on agents here seem to be of the form support this feature that this other agent provider has or let me use this other agent. Where are discussions on what zed can do to differentiate itself that makes it one of the best in class so you and I don’t care about the other agents. To me these type of discussions are more important for the future of zed.

[douglascamata]

One thing is certain: the future of agents and editors has to include freedom. We, as users with different preferences for editors and agents, should ask for this and fight for it.

Editor lock-in is a no-go. That's one (among many) reason that makes people chose Claude Code (and other CLI-based agents).

[JPBarringer]

This has been bothering me as well. It's a good question and I don't know of a clear answer. But it seems pretty clear from the many other agents that have been (and keep getting) added to Zed that this is not a blocker for Zed leadership.

[somtooo]

Are you mistaking agent for model? I don’t know of any other agent. Those two are different concepts

[JPBarringer]

"Model" if you like. They are largely interchangeable to my way of thinking. Unless you are talking specifically about the UI – the agent panel. Or perhaps you are saying that an agent is a model + system prompt, or the framework that interacts with the model?

(We don't need to get into the weeds on this, you were making a more meaningful point about supporting Zed.)

[somtooo]

Yeah no need to get into the weeds agent word is overloaded. My main focus really is how to make zed a product that I just pay zed directly as my goto tool for software development.

[somtooo]

And I think your correct on it not being a blocker for the zed leadership. But don’t you think you’ll need a full extension support for cases like inline text? Or to be able to select text and send to Claude directly?

[filipwiech]

Looks like Zed team has been busy: #33180 (comment). 😉 It's based on the Gemini CLI for now, but appears to be well positioned to allow for more integrations in the future, including Claude Code, assuming it takes off. 👍

[douglascamata]

This is pretty neat. I didn't know about this agentic coding protocol. 🤓

Hopefully Claude Code will also implement this.

[filipwiech]

More progress on the topic, including the initial Claude Code integration with Zed: #33180 (reply in thread). 👍

[jiahaoxiang2000]

NOW The claude-code-zed now supports basic functionality: (@Kaligraphy247)
✅ Working Features

• Text Selection Sharing: Zed can send selected text context to Claude Code CLI
• File Reference Handling: Selected code snippets and file paths are transmitted
• WebSocket Communication: Stable connection between Zed and Claude Code CLI

🚧 Limitations

• LSP Diagnostics: Not yet implemented. The Zed extension acts as an LSP client, but does not currently expose IDE diagnostic information (such as errors, warnings, or type hints) to Claude Code CLI.
• One-way Communication: The main flow is from Zed → Claude Code; there are only limited capabilities for Claude Code → Zed communication.

[Kaligraphy247]

I'm in transit now but I'll test it as soon as I can. How did you manage to figure out the WS issue?

Edit: Typo

[jiahaoxiang2000]

I'm in transit now but I'll test it as soon as I can. How did you manage to figure out the WS issue?

We split the system into two parts.

• One part is the extension, which is responsible for starting up the backend server (outside the WASM environment).
• The other part is the server itself, which runs the WebSocket protocol (wrapping the MCP protocol), communicates with the Claude Code CLI, and connects to Zed using the LSP protocol.

[Kaligraphy247]

Right,I need to look at the src, I'm lost right now. But great job, cant wait to test it.

[Kaligraphy247]

Quick test, and I was able to connect Zed as the IDE to Claude Code. I have slow Wi-Fi where I am currently, took a few tries. More updates to come

[cardosofede]

hey nice work! do u know when it's going to be integrated?

[mateozaratefw]

This and a better completions model and i'd completely drop Cursor for you guys

[jsanko9]

I love Zed and want it to succeed. But as a developer, I’ll always choose the best tool for the job — right now, that happens to be Claude Code for me, but in two weeks it might be something else. This is exactly why I believe supporting multiple agent providers including CLI's is crucial. Even if some aren’t part of Zed Pro subscription today, that could change in the future (different affiliate models, licensing, etc.), and it would be short-sighted to ignore the need for a flexible multi-agent setup.

What makes Zed stand out — and could become its killer feature — is its ability to aggregate the entire conversation into layer of clear and transparent summary of changes . This is huge. It shifts the paradigm from “accepting every small incremental update” to “accepting an entire coherent set of changes” which is very powerful for code review and transparency. And adding an option to accept all changes + manual tweaks at the end to its own commit directly would be a sweet cherry on top.

If Zed could extend this into an isolated layer for multi-agent usage, it would be transformative. We wouldn’t need to juggle multiple worktrees or branches when using multiple agents — instead, we could seamlessly leverage them in a single workflow while Zed handles each conversation aggregations. This would make multi-agent workflows much more practical and open the door to entirely new ways of working.

[random2442]

@jsanko9 Slightly off-topic, but how are you finding Claude Code recently with all the well documented outages and rate-limiting of Claude Code customers. As I understand it Claude Code ranks behind Anthropic API users and from what I've heard Anthropic have been aggressively rate-limiting Claude Code calls in order to prioritise their API customer base.

I have been holding off subscribing to Claude Code and am thinking maybe Zed with its ability to set a usage cost cap might be a better home because it uses the Anthropic API not the Anthropic Claude Code API.

You sound like someone who's experienced both worlds, so what would you do if you were in my shoes ?

[jsanko9]

Please keep on topic, I have updated my profile with e-mail if you want my opinion, message me over there.
In short its about how you manage tokens, but value is much much better with Zed Pro and I would always recommend it to anyone starting out. CC have fixed recent issues, you can try their plan for 20$+, but I would consider it only as a trial before you commit to at least 100$+. Subscriptions are always cheaper than APIs, but you have to use CLI, which is a shame and the reason why we have this discussion.

[alioshr]

@random2442 I use the 20usd sub and never got rate limited. Well, I write code, so I idk about other ppl the use AI to write the code. For people that write code the 20usd sub is more then enough. I use it to analyze issues, code, map patterns, read docs etc. Very good =)

[ogoldberg]

Does anyone know why https://github.com/jiahaoxiang2000/claude-code-zed was archived?

[ogoldberg]

I was wondering why though.

[crashdump]

I was wondering why though.

I suspect because Zed doesn't expose the api necessary for a two way integration with Claude code.
Things such as the LSPs, Tree-sitter, etc are not available to extensions.

A shame if you ask me, I'd love an integration of the sort, it would literally give Claude wings!

[l2pj2nm4y]

Zed really need to look into this. I think many people like myself are avoiding Zed solely due to a lack of Claude Code integration.

Zed might miss out if they don't jump on the train soon.

[hakanensari]

Seems the author got frustrated and abandoned after it broke following an update.

[JPBarringer]

Right now it looks like we are either waiting for a plugin API for adding models / agents to the agent panel or we are waiting for ACP to be released publicly.

(Related: #33180)

I had an integration working locally but that was many Zed versions ago. I'm planning to revisit once there's a clean way to do so that doesn't require a separate build.

[hakanensari]

It appears this is coming.

[maxekman]

Related request: anthropics/claude-code#6686

[abishekmuthian]

I installed the official zed acp for claude-code https://www.npmjs.com/package/@zed-industries/claude-code-acp

and added the following to settings.json to get it working

"agent_servers": {
    "claude-code": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "/home/<username>/node_modules/@zed-industries/claude-code-acp/dist/index.js",
        "claude-code-acp"
      ],
      "env": {}
    }
  }

Direct integration is obviously better, but had got used to seeing the terminal with https://github.com/jiahaoxiang2000/claude-code-zed (RIP) so I guess will take some time to adjust and see improvements in the workflow.

[abishekmuthian]

Well, this didn't last long. Changes in the claude-code npm package has broken the setup. Follow the mitigations in the claude-code thread for mitigations - anthropics/claude-code#6686 (comment)

[Kaligraphy247]

Give it some time. It's still in its early stages, breaking changes are not unusual here.

[maxekman]

@abishekmuthian I doubt that that is an official package, there is no reference to the source for example. In addition to that there is activity in this repo on what looks like official, native support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs

Edit: it could actually be official as they too reference that NPM package: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs#L18

[abishekmuthian]

Yes, I looked at the package in the official source before I installed it.