Releases

This week's release includes support for skills, a global AGENTS.md file for user-wide agent instructions, the ability to choose a base branch in the branch diff view, and a new editor: toggle all diff hunks action.

Features

AI

• Agent: Added support for skills.
• Agent: Added support for a global AGENTS.md file alongside settings.json for user-wide instructions that are included in every project’s system prompt. (#56757)
• Agent: Added commands to open global and project-specific AGENTS.md rules. (#57847)
• Agent: Added agent: new terminal thread for defining custom shortcuts to launch an Agent Panel terminal thread. (#57400)
• Agent: Added support for image output from MCP tools. (#57134)
• Agent: Added support for OAuth client pre-registration with a client ID and client secret in the built-in MCP client. (#52900)
• Agent: Improved file and skill mention disambiguation in the Agent Panel. (#50097; thanks jmg-duarte, #56926)
• OpenCode: Updated available models and metadata, including reasoning support, image support, and token counts. (#57076; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)

Git

• Added the ability to choose the base branch in the branch diff view. (#56569)
• Added keyboard shortcuts for switching between the Changes and History tabs: cmd-1/cmd-2 on macOS and ctrl-1/ctrl-2 on Linux/Windows. (#56743)
• Added editor: toggle all diff hunks to expand or collapse all diff hunks at once. (#56421)
• Improved the display of user avatars in Git-related surfaces. (#56755)
• Improved diff stats by formatting large line counts with thousand separators. (#56754)
• Added the git.show_stage_restore_buttons setting to hide Stage/Restore buttons on diff hunks. (#56740)

Languages

• Added runnables for C++. (#57161; thanks Helmutt03)

Linux

• Added support for buffer_font_fallbacks on Linux. (#54878; thanks Albab-Hasan)
• Improved the first mouse-driven text copy action on Wayland. (#50406; thanks soundslocke)

Other

• Added markdown_preview_code_font_family to override the code font in the markdown preview. (#56744; thanks wln)
• Improved CSV preview with column pinning to keep identifiers visible while scrolling. (#56619; thanks HalavicH)
• Improved restricted mode by making it more obvious and requiring immediate action when opening an untrusted project. (#57056)
• Improved truncated text labels so they no longer show trailing spaces or punctuation before the ellipsis. (#57106)

Bug Fixes

• Agent: Fixed image output from tools not being reloaded when restoring a thread. (#57143)
• MCP OAuth: Fixed authentication failing when an MCP server returned a broken metadata URL. (#53502)
• MCP OAuth: Fixed OAuth client registration failing with some MCP servers. (#53501)
• Fixed AI completions from OpenAI-compatible providers failing when token usage details were missing. (#55919; thanks marius851000)
• Git Graph: Fixed breakage that occurred when Git’s log.showSignature setting was enabled. (#55708; thanks toddlerer)
• OpenAI: Fixed an issue where error messages would not appear properly. (#57750)
• Fixed certain ACP registry agents not cleaning up old versions. (#55290; thanks cppcoffee)
• Fixed some Gemini tool calls failing because Zed could send incomplete tool schemas. (#57160)
• Fixed a bug where using Gemini with certain tools, especially via MCP, resulted in "Invalid JSON payload received" errors due to incompatible JSON schema formats. (#49292; thanks dastrobu)
• Fixed zed --new ssh://host/path reusing an existing SSH window instead of opening a new one. This also applied to other URL-shaped path arguments. (#54408)
• Fixed a bug where non-ASCII characters in diagnostic messages were incorrectly rendered with spurious \ characters. (#55782; thanks alkinun)
• Fixed a crash in GPUI when typing into an Input widget inside a cached view (#50456). (#50665; thanks xcb3d)
• Fixed a panic that could occur when streaming in text with the edit_file tool. (#57100)
• Fixed a panic when loading certain Tree-sitter grammars containing supertypes. (#57183)
• Fixed a rare panic that could occur when lines in the editor contained many invisible characters. (#57137)
• Fixed agent edits sometimes not getting auto-accepted when they were committed. (#56892)
• Fixed the agent erroring when using Copilot as a provider and switching between OpenAI and Anthropic models. (#56655)
• Fixed bash syntax highlighting for conditional expressions, arithmetic expressions, and related operators. (#56484; thanks terror)
• Fixed the activity indicator in the status bar not opening a menu with items to cancel running actions. (#56865)
• Fixed commit title length checks miscounting multi-byte characters as multiple characters. (#57025; thanks koxya)
• Fixed context server availability updates when a new worktree is added to or removed from a project. (#51244; thanks rioriost)
• Fixed importing the VS Code setting files.simpleDialog.enable with the opposite value. (#55678; thanks Earlopain)
• Fixed macOS Cmd-E/Cmd-G find behavior so Cmd-E seeds find from the cursor or selection and Cmd-G advances through the newly seeded matches. (#56681)
• Fixed markdown preview content being clipped past the pane edge when the buffer search bar is open. (#55009; thanks tkilaker)
• Fixed Mermaid diagrams not rendering with the default UI typeface. (#56695)
• Fixed npm-backed tool installs to better respect npm release-age filters. (#56957)
• Fixed pressing "New Thread" or cmd-n doing nothing when the Agent Panel's Settings view was open. (#56818)
• Fixed running Zed on Ubuntu 20.04 installed via the installer by bundling the required libstdc++.so. (#57132)
• Fixed Settings UI search returning unrelated results for multi-word queries. (#56835)
• Fixed the agent: toggle profile selector keybinding being ignored while the agent was generating a response. (#56784; thanks Rfluid)
• Fixed the Agent Panel’s @-mention menu not appearing when @ immediately follows (, [, or {. (#55504)
• Fixed tool paths preferring files in subdirectories named after the project root. (#56230; thanks procr1337)
• Fixed UI freezes on Linux (Wayland) with certain GPU/driver combinations. (#57077; thanks higorprado)
• Fixed text selection not always matching the mouse position in markdown blocks in the Agent Panel. (#56861; thanks timvermeulen)
• Fixed zed:// links focusing Zed and improved handling of zed://agent links. (#57047)
• Fixed workspace: open files ignoring the Project Panel's sort_mode setting. (#56720; thanks hron)
• Fixed undo behavior after accepting LSP completions, so completions and their additional edits are reverted together. (#53980; thanks HuaGu-Dragon)
• Fixed the Python REPL UI not populating correctly in remote projects. (#54709; thanks MostlyKIGuess)
• Removed code lens blocks from diff views to fix broken background highlights. (#56726)
• Fixed "speed: Extra inputs are not permitted" errors for Opus 4.6 and 4.7 in the Anthropic API provider. (#57707)
• Fixed code lens flickering when no commands were resolved. (#57790)

Breaking Changes and Notices

• Removed the rules library and replaced it with skills support.
• Replaced the @rule autocomplete entry with @skill in the agent chat input. (#56902)

• Fixed a bug on macOS where Git operations could be blocked depending on the timing of spawning child processes. (#57662)

• Fixed npm-backed tool installs to better respect npm release-age filters. (#57439)
• google: Support thinking levels for Google models. (#57394)
• Added support for Gemini 3.5 Flash in the Google AI model provider. (#57392)

This week's release includes the ability to create Terminal Threads from the sidebar and Agent Panel, a Git panel branch history view and support for running custom Git commands from the Git Graph context menu, inline image and Mermaid diagram rendering in the agent, a new subagent_model setting, optional text icons for completion items ("completion_menu_item_kind": "symbol"), and Vim g z jump-to-word navigation.

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• Added built-in language server support for Bash. (#52811; thanks lingyaochu)

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Features

AI

• Added the ability to create Terminal Threads in the Sidebar and Agent Panel. (#56685)
• Agent: Added setting subagent_model to specify which model is used when a subagent is spawned. (#56203)
• Agent: Added support for rendering inline images. (#56427)
• Agent: Added support for Mermaid diagrams. (#56430)
• Agent: Improved UX when agent tries to edit unsaved buffer. (#55655)
• Agent: Added support for grok-4.3 and grok-4.2. (#55931)
• Agent: Added Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite. (#56248; thanks qtqgyt)
• Agent: Updated OpenCode Free models (BigPickle and Ring 2.6 1T Free). (#56328; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
• Agent: Added support for gpt-5.4-nano/mini models for OpenAI provider. (#56476)
• Agent: Improved output quality when using OpenAI models. (#56476)
• Agent: Added guardrail_identifier and guardrail_version settings for AWS Bedrock, enabling use in environments where IAM policies require a guardrail on all model requests. (#50084; thanks 9to6)
• Agent: Added support for editing the thread title for external agent threads. (#56446)
• Agent: Added user confirmation requirement before letting tools modify files inside .agents/skills/ (per-project) or ~/.agents/skills/ (global), so skills installed by any agent are protected from unsolicited edits. (#56456)
• Anthropic: Added dynamic fetching of available models from Anthropic API. (#56397)
• Improved sidebar search placeholder text to read "Search threads…" instead of "Search…". (#56081)
• Edit Prediction: Added the ability to input the "expected patch", i.e. what the model should have predicted in the edit prediction: rate completions modal. (#56629)
• Improved Anthropic prompt cache utilization, reducing latency and cost for ongoing conversations. (#56472)
• Improved Bedrock prompt cache utilization by anchoring the system prompt as its own cache prefix. (#56474)
• Improved Copilot edit predictions to no longer rely on a system node installation, so the system node version no longer affects whether they work in Zed. (#56635)

Git

• Added a history view to the Git panel that allows to quickly see in a list all the commits for a given branch. (#56500)
• Added support for running global custom Git command tasks from the Git Graph commit context menu. (#56354)
• Added support for force deleting worktrees that contain modified or untracked files. (#56519)
• Added a Copy Tag action to the git graph context menu. (#56110)
• Changed the git::Commit action (cmd-enter or ctrl-enter) to now commit a pending amend. (#54472)
• Added confirmation prompt when deleting unmerged git branches, with option to force delete. (#55927)
• Added alt+click on delete button to force delete a branch immediately. (#55927)

Vim / Helix

• Added Vim-mode jump-to-word navigation on g z. (#55492; thanks GoldStrikeArch)
• Added support for Helix' buffer picker that is opened via space b by default. (#55868; thanks jnns)
• Added a setting vim.show_edit_predictions_in_normal_mode to control whether edit predictions are shown in normal mode. (#55956)

Remote Development

• Added support for SCP style SSH urls: zed ssh://user@host:~/code/proj. (#56304; thanks notpeter)

Other

• Added text icons for completion items (disabled by default, use "completion_menu_item_kind": "symbol" to enable). (#56396)
• Improved Markdown preview table cells to vertically center content in tall rows and respect column alignment from the table header. (#53465; thanks davidalecrim1)
• Improved Mermaid diagrams in rendered markdown to match your theme by default. (#56430)
• Added a Hide Button entry to the right-click context menu on status bar items and panel buttons. (#54971)
• Added support for opening a file with a line range selected in the file finder using the path:start-end syntax (e.g. file.rs:10-20). (#53958; thanks cppcoffee)
• Added file:line:col navigation from ctrl+click hover links in the editor. (#55877; thanks jabdinghoff)
• Optimized multibuffer creation by conditionally using headers based on RHS state. (#56058; thanks chirivelli)
• Improved the minimum size of diagnostics pane excerpts. (#56172)
• Improved default button focus in macOS dialogs. (#56513)
• Improved auto update error message for NixOS users missing rsync. (#56097; thanks karol-broda)
• Added theme keys for configuring editor diff hunk colors. (#51784; thanks vitallium)
• Improved extension updates to be more resilient to network and upstream failures. (#54355)

Bug Fixes

• Agent: Fixed an issue where editing would sometimes fail for specific models (Deepseek v4). (#55894)
• Agent: Fixed squashed message editor when limit_content_width=false. (#56688)
• Ollama: Fixed issue where specifying auto_discover: false would still auto discover models. (#55999; thanks ogtega)
• Fixed git blame processes not getting dropped properly. (#56894)
• Fixed an issue where git state would be stale in some cases. (#57176)
• Fixed a bug where restoring diff hunks in remote projects would leave stale no-op hunks in the UI. (#54823)
• Fixed a bug where selection mentions would resolve to the literal selection rather than the URI in draft threads. (#55203)
• Fixed a bug where Zed incorrectly kept a removed pane as the active pane. (#56229)
• Fixed a crash in follow mode when opening multibuffers. (#55948)
• Fixed a crash in markdown preview when a mermaid flowchart contained a partially-typed parallelogram node like A[/] or A[\]. (#56199)
• Fixed agent "finished" notification appearing right before the queued message is sent. (#56157)
• Fixed agent panel staying in a generating state when the underlying prompt task was cancelled before completing. (#55562; thanks brunorodmoreira)
• Fixed an issue where local settings files would not correctly open on remote workspaces. (#56373)
• Fixed an issue where re-running the git: branch diff after changing the active project would not refresh the branch diff to show the branch diff of the active project. (#56552)
• Fixed an out-of-bounds panic when the AI produced multiple inline rewrites in a single completion. (#52458; thanks mre)
• Fixed eagerly truncated labels in the Debug modal. (#56510; thanks afgomez)
• Fixed file names containing markdown special characters (e.g. __somefile__) being rendered as formatted text in the git discard confirmation dialog. (#56197; thanks alkinun)
• Fixed installing extensions when Zed's cache and data directories are on different filesystems. (#56437; thanks PiasekDev)
• Fixed resolved lens causing flickers. (#56047)
• Fixed some rare cases where API requests would fail with Unauthorized. (#56559)
• Fixed the ACP Registry getting stuck on loading when registry or icon requests hang. (#56108; thanks grgwuk990)
• Fixed the agent panel to show "Restore checkpoint" as soon as the agent starts editing instead of waiting until the turn ends. (#56611)
• Fixed unsaved untitled buffers being silently lost when opening a file or project from an empty window. (#55889)
• Fixed vim change surrounds for MiniQuotes, MiniBrackets, and AnyQuotes. (#51067; thanks ian-h-chamberlain)
• Fixed Windows installer task arguments syntax. (#50464)
• Fixed scrollbar position jumping or inverting when content height changes during a scrollbar drag (e.g. in the agent panel while streaming). (#53378; thanks KlausUllrich)
• Fixed DashScope (Aliyun) tool calls not preserving id and name across streaming delta chunks.
• Fixed file names containing markdown special characters (e.g. __somefile__) being rendered as formatted text in the file deletion confirmation dialog. (#55697; thanks alkinun)
• Fixed Vim % (jump to matching) to match C preprocessor directives (e.g. #if/#endif) and comment delimiters, like Neovim. (#55515; thanks tanaxer01)
• Fixed Vim % incorrectly expanding into the rest of the file when used on a blank line inside a bracket range. (#55515; thanks tanaxer01)
• Fixed angled brackets being included in rainbow bracket highlights for JavaScript. (#57072)
• Fixed an issue where file system watching would default to the polling backend inside of OrbStack VMs on macOS. (#57184)

Breaking Changes and Notices

• Removed open tool from built-in Agent tools. (#56295)
• Removed deprecated xAI models. (#55931)
• Removed deprecated OpenCode models (MiMo V2, Hy3, and Claude 3.5 Haiku). (#56278; thanks Vlaaaaaaad)
• Removed Ling 2.6 Flash Free model from the OpenCode provider. (#55984; thanks Sikriet)
• Removed deprecated OpenAI models. (#56476)

• git: Fix git blame processes not getting dropped properly. (#56912)

• Added support for specifying effort level when using OpenAI models via ChatGPT subscription (#56872)
• Always pass null when body is non-existent in Vue language server request (#56827)

• Fixed pressing "New Thread" (or Cmd-N) doing nothing when the Agent Panel's Settings view was open (#56818)

• Added ChatGPT subscription provider, allowing users to use their ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription with the Zed agent. (#56811)
• Removed deprecated OpenAI models.
• Added support for gpt-5.4-nano/mini models for the OpenAI provider.
• Improved output quality when using OpenAI models. (#56809)
• Added support for specifying effort level when using OpenAI models. (#56808)
• Fixed an issue where file system events or language server events that resulted in Zed unwatching many paths would cause high CPU usage. (#56806)
• Agent: Fixed squashed message editor when limit_content_width=false. (#56687)