Release / 3 Jun 2026

Zed v1.5.3

Give the agent reusable skills and user-wide instructions in a global AGENTS.md.

Before you upgrade to v1.5.3

1 to fix

Rules were replaced by skills: use @skill; a migration from rules to skills is offered.

Action requiredAsk an AI agent in the editor to read, edit and run commands across your project, and review its changes.Affects: Users of the rules library and @rule mentions

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ACP extensions are no longer supported; installed ones are migrated to servers from the ACP Registry automatically.

Behavior changedRun external coding agents such as Gemini CLI or Claude Code inside Zed through the Agent Client Protocol.

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What changed in v1.5.3

Agent skills and a global AGENTS.md; the rules library and @rule were replaced by skills and @skill. ACP extensions were removed and migrated to registry servers. Clickable LSP document links are on by default. Covers v1.4 and v1.5.

Also: New Mermaid renderer, base branch choice in branch diff, renaming threads in the sidebar.

Stable v1.5.3.

Fixed and improved

Agent skills and a global AGENTS.md for instructions in every project.

ImprovedAsk an AI agent in the editor to read, edit and run commands across your project, and review its changes.

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zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v1.4.2

Links provided by language servers are clickable, on by default ("lsp_document_links": false turns them off).

ImprovedGet completion, diagnostics and code navigation from language servers configured per language.

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Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido), from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.