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Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

So this ACP is Agent Client Protocol

https://github.com/zed-industries/agent-client-protocol

not to be confused with the other ACP from IBM, Agent Communication Protocol... Which is about "communication between agents, humans, and applications".

https://github.com/i-am-bee/ACP

Which is now part of A2A

https://github.com/a2aproject/A2A

I'm curious if there was an attempt to extend this to add first class support for interaction with IDEs rather than creating a new protocol.

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by submeta »

When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by saturn_vk »

submeta wrote: post #4

When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.

The company is VC backed. Why would the software disappear though? It’s open source, so it can survive even if the company doesn’t

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by rtfeldman »

submeta wrote: post #4

When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.

Zed is open-source under GPLv3 - https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

That doesn't guarantee it will have paid contributors indefinitely, but the same is true of the other editors you listed. It does, however, guarantee that if Zed (the company) were to disappear, community members would be free to continue using the Zed editor (and developing it) in perpetuity!

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by athorax »

submeta wrote: post #4

When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.

My guess is that there aren't that many folks using zed over neovim/emacs. It seems like a more suitable alternative to vscode or jetbrains IDEs which imo have at least the same level of financial risks involved. At the end of the day it is just an editor and moving to something is pretty minimal effort if things do go in a direction you don't agree with.

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Post by jimmydoe »

submeta wrote: post #4

When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.

I get enshitification in general, but your take is absurd. zed is merely a text editor, a tool operate on your local files with no special format, no lock in. It may charge you $1m a year , or show you one ad every 5 sec, then you don't have to use it...

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #2

So this ACP is Agent Client Protocol https://github.com/zed-industries/agent-client-protocol not to be confused with the other ACP from IBM, Agent Communication Protocol... Which is about "communication between agents, humans, and applications". https://github.com/i-am-bee/ACP Which is now part of A2A https://github.com/a2aproject/A2A I'm curious if there was an attempt to extend this to add first class support for i…

Not to be confused with IBM's ACP: Agent Communication Protocol. C here being Client. https://agentcommunicationprotocol.dev/introduction/welcome

Implemented by langchain, https://github.com/langchain-ai/agent-protocol

Threads for ongoing work, runs for stateless one-shots, long term memory. And a discovery system. No affiliation, just fun to see what folks have in their APIs.

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