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Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by cute_boi » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #7

This is a big unsolved dev tooling problem. Glad someone competent is working on it.

Yes, but it saps away the time that could be used to improve zed.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by vehemenz » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

ok_dad wrote: post #5

randomblock1 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It supports anything with ACP. So it can actually run Codex and Claude Code, not just the Zed Agent. Looks like omp supports ACP, so all you have to do is specify a Custom Agent in Zed and it should just work. https://omp.sh/docs/acp https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents

This is the killer Zed feature, IMO, that they support almost any agent via extensions. I deleted Cursor but still use the agent via Zed because it’s a lot nicer experience, Zed never had popups telling me Grok is half off. I also use OpenRouter and Zed.dev with it, that’s three providers out of dozens that it supports.

Exactly. The more competitive the space is, the more important it is that products purposefully support 3rd-party providers. Now that people are increasingly switching from Anthropic/OpenAI for inference reseellers and on-prem compute, transparency and portability will be the new values, not being slightly better than the next agent or model.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by whalesalad » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:34 PM UTC

cute_boi wrote: post #11

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #7

This is a big unsolved dev tooling problem. Glad someone competent is working on it.

Yes, but it saps away the time that could be used to improve zed.

zed is open source, you are free to improve it on your own

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by lemonberry » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:34 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #8

Basically what IntelliJ calls local history . It is a feature that has saved my bacon. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html

Ooooh, this is cool. I was unaware of this. Thanks for the link.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by visiondude » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC

i think a system that uses git and file system artifacts (txt/md/xml files whatever preference) is much better. eng teams need to define their artifacts, eg plan file, reqs etc whatever is needed and important to that team. the agent convo itself doesn’t add much value IMO and adds unnecessary bloat.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by joemccall86 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

g42gregory wrote: post #2

Looks like a great feature/product/functionality. I hope that Zed editor will make it work with LLMs/agents that run in the terminal, not just the Zen Agent itself. Is it even possible? I use OMP.sh agent running in Zed terminal.

I use this every day — https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by adastra22 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

Is this closed source?

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by m3kw9 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

It should work with github inbetween commits, that i may use. Right now I'm using staging as an in bewteen in a dangerous way.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by skhameneh » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:48 PM UTC

cute_boi wrote: post #11

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #7

This is a big unsolved dev tooling problem. Glad someone competent is working on it.

Yes, but it saps away the time that could be used to improve zed.

Or it’s actively used to improve Zed faster (or more efficiently).

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by jasonlotito » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #8

Basically what IntelliJ calls local history . It is a feature that has saved my bacon. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html

Yes, I concur. Local History is wonderful; nice to see Zed getting its own version.