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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

#31

Okay, but what about Claude Code, the coding agent people actually use?

Obviously the protocol is designed to encourage other agents to build their own integration. It seems like the kind of thing LLMs would be good at, so I expect to see it soon, especially for the open source ones.

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

#34
post #13

Honest question - why use Zed, other than it is fast and “not VS Code”?

It's very 'batteries-included', for one thing - when a novice wants to code, I recommend them Zed because it'll just handle and manage LSPs for them for a variety of languages. Meanwhile with VSCode step 1 of installing and using it for e.g. Rust is to go and install a random extension (and the VSCode store, whilst sorted by popularity, can be intimidating / confusing for a novice, who might install a random/scammy e…

Having everything be an extension is the double edged sword of VS Code. Zed is great for the ecosystem and I use it as an alternate editor for quick text editing but I dont foresee it replacing VS Code as my IDE. Once youve configured VS Code to your liking with devcontainers, and extensions declared by the config file, it becomes excellent.

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

#36

as a policy, im not allowing any agentic CLI installed on my machine outside of a container. How can I use Zed with Gemini CLI?

You can configure an arbitrary command to connect to ACP in your settings, maybe something like:

{"agent_servers": { "Container Gemini": { "command": "ssh", "arguments": ["hostname", "gemini", "--experimental-acp"] } }

could work?

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

#37
post #17
post #3

Related post from Google: https://developers.googleblog.com/pt-br/gemini-cli-is-now-in...

We'll put that link in the top text too. Thanks!

The original link was to Portuguese. This is English version https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-cli-is-now-integ...

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

#38
post #37
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'll put that link in the top text too. Thanks!

The original link was to Portuguese. This is English version https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-cli-is-now-integ...

Thanks! Replaced.

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

#39
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.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss influenced my own thinking around this: https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/111914179201102152

“We believe that open source should be sustainable and open source maintainers should get paid!”

Maintainer: introduces commercial features

“Not like that”

Maintainer: works for a large tech co

“Not like that”

Maintainer: takes investment

“Not like that”

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