Releases

This week's release includes support for agent 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)