Zed Terminal Threads
Zed has introduced Terminal Threads, allowing users to manage terminal-based workflows alongside their existing agent threads. This feature enhances the integration of terminal sessions within the Zed environment, making it easier for developers to keep track of their work. Terminal Threads are designed to work with popular agents like Amp and Claude Code, providing a more seamless experience for users.
- ▪Zed's Agent Panel can now host terminals as threads, allowing for better management of terminal-based workflows.
- ▪Users can open multiple terminal threads, which appear in the sidebar alongside other agent threads.
- ▪Terminal Threads provide notifications and keyboard navigation similar to agent threads, enhancing user experience.
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Zed's Agent Panel can now host terminals as threads. Start claude, amp, codex, or any other terminal-based workflow, and it becomes a managed thread in your sidebar alongside the rest of your work. A walkthrough of Terminal Threads in Zed. When we launched Parallel Agents last month, many of you started running multiple agents at once in the same window. But Parallel Agents only worked with Zed's built-in agent and external agents connected through ACP. We know a lot of you prefer to work with agents in the terminal, and some of you were already making it work with the existing terminal pane. That workflow made sense, but the terminal pane was not designed for managing parallel agent sessions. Terminal Threads bring those sessions into the same sidebar where Zed already tracks agent work.
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