# Zed

> A high-performance, multiplayer code editor with AI agent features, from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

## Facts
- **Category:** [Coding Agents](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/coding-agents)
- **Type:** Agent
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 90,745
- **Language:** Rust
- **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 23, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://zed.dev
- **Source code:** https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/zed
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
Developers who want a fast native editor with AI assistance built in rather than bolted on.

## About Zed
Zed is a high-performance code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, built for collaboration between people and AI. It supports agentic editing natively, runs several agent threads in parallel across projects and lets you bring the model or agent of your choice. It is available for macOS, Linux and Windows; the source is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.

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