# Zed

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zed-editor/  
**Website:** https://zed.dev  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Zed is an open-source, high-performance multiplayer code editor written from scratch in Rust and built around GPU-accelerated rendering through its own GPUI framework. Created by Zed Industries — founded by Nathan Sobo, Antonio Scandurra, and Max Brunsfeld, the team behind Atom, Electron, and Tree-sitter — Zed combines a native desktop editor with real-time collaboration, native Git integration, Language Server Protocol and Debug Adapter Protocol support, and a first-class AI agent surface that includes edit prediction powered by the open-weight Zeta2 model, an inline assistant, parallel agents, and integrations with external coding agents (Claude, Codex, OpenCode) via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and Model Context Protocol (MCP). The editor itself is free and triple-licensed (AGPL / Apache-2.0 / GPL-3.0) with paid Pro and Business tiers that bundle hosted AI capabilities, edit prediction quotas, organization controls, and data governance. Zed runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows and exposes a WASM-based extension API (themes, languages, debuggers, snippets, MCP servers, agent servers) with extensions published through the zed-industries/extensions repository.

## Kin Score — 16.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Zed Editor Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Code Editor, Developer Tools, IDE, Rust, GPU Accelerated, Open-Source, AI Coding, Agentic Editing, Real-Time Collaboration, Language Server Protocol, Debug Adapter Protocol, MCP, Agent Client Protocol, WebAssembly Extensions, Tree-sitter, Multiplayer

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/zed-editor/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.