agentty 0.2.0 — run your terminal agent inside Zed

agentty has always been one thing: a fast, single-binary Claude agent that lives in your terminal. 0.2.0 keeps that, and adds a second front door — the Agent Client Protocol, the same protocol Zed uses to drive Claude Code and Gemini. Point Zed at agentty acp and your terminal agent becomes a first-class agent panel inside the editor.

The important part: it's the same engine. Same provider, same tool registry, same wire-message shaping, same permission policy — just driven over newline- delimited JSON-RPC on stdio instead of a TUI. There is no second codebase to keep honest.

Set it up

Drop this into Zed's settings.json:

{
  "agent_servers": {
    "agentty": {
      "command": "agentty",
      "args": ["acp"]
    }
  }
}

Open the agent panel, pick agentty, and prompt. Auth is whatever agentty login already wrote to ~/.config/agentty/credentials.json — nothing extra to configure.

What you get

• Streaming text renders token-by-token in Zed's panel.
• Tool cards for every read / edit / bash / grep, with live status.
• Inline diffs — write and edit emit ACP diff content, so Zed renders the change in place.
• Follow-along — tool calls carry the file path as an ACP location, so Zed opens and highlights the file the agent is touching.
• Native permission prompts before any side-effecting tool runs. The --profile {ask|minimal|write} flag tunes exactly which tools prompt.
• Session persistence + reload — sessions are written to the same on-disk thread store the TUI uses, so Zed can session/load and replay a full conversation. Threads started in Zed show up in the standalone TUI's picker, and vice versa.

One-command Zed over an air-gap

If the box you want to run on has no direct internet, let agentty assemble the config for you:

agentty airgap <host> --acp [flags…]

It prints a ready-to-paste Zed agent_servers entry whose command is ssh itself — one ssh process is the reverse SOCKS5 tunnel, the remote agent, and the JSON-RPC transport, all at once. Zed owns its lifecycle, so there's nothing to babysit.

The rest of 0.2.0

Beyond ACP, this release hardens the transport layer: per-error-class retry caps (rate-limits keep the full budget, mid-stream drops get only two attempts), a real x-stainless-retry-count header, and a fix for the stale-pooled-connection churn that produced most of the "transient — retrying…" banners after long sessions.

Full notes are on the release page. Install or update with the same one line:

curl -fsSL https://agentty.org/install.sh | sh