README

Zed




Welcome to Zed, a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

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 Installation

On macOS, Linux, and Windows you can download Zed directly or install Zed via your local package manager (macOS/Linux/Windows).

Other platforms are not yet available:

- Web (tracking discussion)

 Developing Zed

- Building Zed for macOS
- Building Zed for Linux
- Building Zed for Windows

 Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for ways you can contribute to Zed.

Also... we're hiring! Check out our jobs page for open roles.

 Licensing

Zed source code is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.

License information for third party dependencies must be correctly provided for CI to pass.

We use cargo-about to automatically comply with open source licenses. If CI is failing, check the following:

- Is it showing a no license specified error for a crate you've created? If so, add publish = false under [package] in your crate's Cargo.toml.
- Is the error failed to satisfy license requirements for a dependency? If so, first determine what license the project has and whether this system is sufficient to comply with this license's requirements. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer. Once you've verified that this system is acceptable add the license's SPDX identifier to the accepted array in script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml.
- Is cargo-about unable to find the license for a dependency? If so, add a clarification field at the end of script/licenses/zed-licenses.toml, as specified in the cargo-about book.

 Sponsorship

Zed is developed by Zed Industries, Inc., a for-profit company.

If you’d like to financially support the project, you can do so via GitHub Sponsors.
Sponsorships go directly to Zed Industries and are used as general company revenue.
There are no perks or entitlements associated with sponsorship.

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

This week's release includes syntax highlighting for Go 1.27 generic methods, an option to open README files by default, and AI commit messages that follow your repository's recent commit style.

 Features

 AI

- Improved Agent Panel memory usage by loading tool-call diffs and parsing thread message Markdown only when first viewed, instead of when loading a thread. (65444, 65470; thanks Vanuan)
- Improved AI commit message generation by using the three most recent repository commit messages as style examples. (61528; thanks matheuslrd)
- Improved CPU usage and disk reads while the age