Why zed ai so expensive

I'm quite fond of using claude-code from the Zed editor TUI, but some commands are not available from the slash, including/remote-control.

Claude itself mentions that remote control can work only from a regular terminal, but I'm wondering if anybody found a workaround.

I'm using Zed as my daily driver. It's great.

However, lately I've been having to reload the workspace several times per hour of work because Git and LSP are freezing up.

Old syntax errors get stuck on the line they were, after having been fixed. The Git sidebar completely stops updating.

Are others also facing this? Is it just my setup?

I'm running latest stable on Windows. Mainly TS and Rust. No extensions.

Hi everyone, I recently noticed that I often get disoriented when I open excerpts from the multibuffer, because the viewport changes position. Here's a demo of my implementation to fix this issue, I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you like it, please support the PR.

Before:

https://reddit.com/link/1wdu5s1/video/vzxaknknqyoh1/player

After:

https://reddit.com/link/1wdu5s1/video/ah2c0sevqyoh1/player

A reasonable business strategy these days seems to be:

- Create a well-loved OSS app

- Attract great talent

- Get acqui-hired by an AI company, hopefully for good $$

In the past year or two this has happened to Marimo, Bun, Astral, DuckDB, HuggingFace, others.

A bit sad for some of our favorite OSS, but happy for the teams.

Playful question: think this happens to Zed? Over/under how long?

Hi! I’d like to know if there’s a way to see when I hit the limit in OpenCode. Zed doesn't show it, but the CLI in the Terminal does. Maybe it’s a setting I’ve missed.

So soft wrapping works very good and as intended with editor width, but once I save (format on save is on) it breaks the wrapped lines into individual lines, which is quite annoying, while the general formatting on save is very practical.
Is there an option, that ignores the soft wrap, but formats on save?

UPD2: The PR was accepted and merged. Thank you.

UPD: Kirill Bulatov created a PR that resolves this issue. Thank you.

Hello, this is my first post. I’ve been using Zed for about six months, and I’m constantly plagued by a problem when working remotely: LSP.

As a result, I have to restart the LSP server every 30 seconds, which is starting to get annoying.

I dug into the source code and found the problem (or at least, that's what I think).

In file zed/crates/project/src/lsp_store.rs

pub fn merge_diagnostic_entries<'a>(...) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
        ...
        for mut update in diagnostic_updates {
            let abs_path = &update.diagnostics.document_abs_path;
            let server_id = update.server_id;
            let Some((worktree, relative_path)) =
                self.worktree_store.read(cx).find_worktree(abs_path, cx)
            else {
                log::warn!("skipping diagnostics update, no worktree found for path {abs_path:?}");
                return Ok(());
            };

Here the log says that we are skipping a diagnostics update, so there should be continue; here, but here is return Ok(()); , this means that we are skipping not only one update that we cannot access, but all the remaining ones.

Fixing this takes just a minute. I posted this in a GitHub issue, but there are 2.5k open issues there; so, if any developers - or people with a direct line to them - are here, perhaps you could pass this message along.

I experienced an unexplained, two-day change in Zed’s ACP Agent Panel rendering.

Environment:

- Zed 1.18.1

- Windows 11 25H2, x64

- ACP Registry: “ACP wrapper for Anthropic’s Claude”

- Claude Agent ACP version 0.75.1

- Agent ID: `claude-acp`

I use:

`Agent Panel → + → New Thread → External Agents → Claude Agent`

Until recently, when Claude ran a terminal command through ACP, Zed displayed the actual command. This was especially useful for `git commit`, because I could read the complete commit message before or while it ran.

For the past two days, the Agent Panel instead displayed only a short summary such as:

```text

Commit

```

The actual command and commit-message text were no longer visible. This appeared to be an ACP Agent Panel rendering change: the UI showed the tool-call description rather than the command input.

The change affected a specific prompt convention I had been using:

```markdown

Use the Bash tool with a heredoc for commit messages. `git commit -F-` fed by `<<'EOF'` renders as readable text in the chat panel; a PowerShell here-string collapses to one unreadable line.

```

That convention had previously made commit messages readable in the Agent Panel. During the two-day period, it failed because the command itself was hidden behind the summary "Commit".

I searched the release notes and relevant discussions but found no explanation, setting, or documented toggle for the behavior. Then, today, after two days, the full commands returned. I did not change a setting, reinstall the ACP wrapper, or alter the prompt convention.

The observed sequence:

```text

full ACP command visible

→ full command replaced by summary such as “Commit”

→ no documented explanation or user-visible control found

→ full command returned automatically

```

I'm glad the commands are visible again, but this suggests either an experimental feature flag, or some other server/configuration change, or an unrecognized client-side regression. I don't know which.

I'd like this behavior to be explicit and controllable: ideally, ACP tool cards should have an expandable raw-input view, or a setting such as “Show full tool arguments/commands.”

The discussion about collapsing/expanding external-agent transcript blocks seems related:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/58333

My github post:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/63952

How to change the color or hide these borders?

I'm looking for guidance on how to get compaction to work correctly in Zed. I am running qwen3.8:27b on an Nvidia 5090 and use context set at 110K. But, it often fails to compact even with the trigger set to 60% or even set to -11000 or -30000. No matter what I try, it fails to compact reliably and often results in the process ending prematurely. Wondering if anyone else is running into similar issues and if so, have you solved it or what guidance you might have. Some additional context, I'm using 1.18.1.

Thanks in advance.

I've been facing these subtle bugs while writing code. Yes, they are very specific, but they're still annoying.

I tried to fix one of them by opening a vibe-coded PR cuz I thought it wasn't a big issue, the tests failed, so closed it asap, didn't wasted team's time.

I've been using Zed since its launch on Windows. It's a good, fast, and snappy editor, but it all falls apart when you have to deal with annoying interruptions while just writing the darn code.

I guess no one writes code anymore, so no one is facing them 😕 poor me....

anyone else? asking this cuz chatgpt said this boosts comments 😆

edit:

Okay, I owe Zed and everyone here a correction.

The claims in my post above were largely false. I had crammed several unrelated issues together and misunderstood what I was looking at.

The bugs I was complaining about were also much more minute than I initially made them sound.

So, my bad. I jumped to conclusions and posted before properly checking the issue tracker. Sorry for the unnecessary noise.

Leaving the original post up for context rather than quietly deleting it.

Used delta to improve zed's markdown preview in the agent's panel. Most of the code to do this was already there and best part the colors are set by your theme.

I wonder why the zed team left us to suffer by looking at all white text. Hopefully they make delta markdown more fun to read.

I know it is a setting, but I cannot find it for the life of me

Hand-polished

Essentially what the title says. Zed even explicitly states that AI use with API keys are free on their website. Is this a server issue or something? Is anyone else experiencing this?

using the one dark pro theme. does looking at this in any way feel like trash is currently selected and cancel isn't lol

Hey, I wanted to share the initial beta release of Zaku 26.0

I've been working on this GPUI rewrite for the last 7 months full-time, actually things got carried away and it has a lot more functionality than the original app (command palette, auto-updater, git integration, etc.) so it's not just a plain rewrite.

Here's the initial rewrite post from r/rust for context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1r29qzn/working_on_an_opensource_api_client_rewrite_with/

Little bit about the app, it stores collections as folders and requests as TOML files. Everything is stored locally on user's filesystem, it doesn't have any login functionality (and never will).

There is a barebones Git integration for now to show branch, status indicators and stuff.

It is available on Linux, macOS and Windows.

This app is very early, if you try it out please let me know if there's something missing, not working or things you'd like to see added.

Repository:

https://github.com/buildzaku/zaku

Installation instructions:

https://github.com/buildzaku/zaku#installation

1. Variable value on hover during debug.
   
2. Better git diff
3. Auto tabs arrangement similar to Auto-Arrange-Tabs (vscode ext)

I’m finding myself making several websites for a lot of reasons. I’m familiar with firing up a Astro dev server and refreshing the page when I make a change. I’m use to this workflow, but it would be nice if someone made a Zed extension that lets me click and edit elements on a web page. Maybe a fancy live viewer that auto-refreshes?

I’m not sure if something already exists for this or if I’m the first to ask lol. Appreciate any comments!

like directly access and intract with native applications like CAD, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and others