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Zed support details

Native rules and MCP, no native prompts, and skills are exposed through pointer rules.

Zed is a good target for rules and MCP, but prompts and native skills need translation.

Start on the full support matrix when you need to compare every editor at once. Use this page when you want the exact terms, support details, and project/user targets for Zed.

Related aix concepts: rules , prompts , mcp , skills , hooks .

Editor-specific notes

  • Zed reads a single .rules file, so aix flattens all rules into one file.
  • Zed skills are emitted as pointer rules because the editor has no native skill directory.

Feature details

How to read the statuses

Support key

Editor support

  • Supported The editor exposes that feature at that scope.
  • No support The editor does not expose that feature at that scope.

aix support

  • Native aix writes the editor's own format.
  • Adapter aix keeps the feature through an adapter or alternate representation.
  • No support aix does not write that feature for the destination today.

Use the Project scope and User scope rows to see where config lands at each level.

Rules Learn the concept

A single concatenated .rules file.

Zed calls this Rules
aix support Native
Project
Editor Supported aix Native
Path .rules
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: aix does not have a writable user-scope .rules target for Zed.
  • Zed also auto-detects AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and other compatibility files.

Prompts Learn the concept

Zed does not expose file-based prompt installs in aix.

Zed calls this Rules Library prompts
aix support No support
Project
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: Zed prompt installs are not supported.
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: Zed prompt installs are not supported.
  • Zed does support MCP server-side prompts, but not file-based user prompts.

MCP Learn the concept

JSON context_servers configuration.

Zed calls this Context servers
aix support Native
Project
Editor Supported aix Native
Path .zed/settings.json
User
Editor Supported aix Native
Path ~/.config/zed/settings.json

Skills Learn the concept

Skill directories plus generated rules that point the agent at .aix/skills/.

Zed calls this Pointer rules
aix support Adapter
Project
Editor Supported aix Adapter
Path .rules
aix: aix appends pointer rules that reference .aix/skills/{name}/.
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: User-scoped Zed skills require a writable user rules file, which aix does not have.

Agents

Zed does not document custom agent files that aix can write safely.

Zed calls this Agents
aix support No support
Project
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: aix reports configured agents as unsupported for Zed.
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: aix reports configured agents as unsupported for Zed.

Hooks Learn the concept

Hooks are not supported.

Zed calls this Hooks
aix support No support
Project
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: Zed does not support lifecycle hooks in aix.
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: Zed does not support lifecycle hooks in aix.

AGENTS.md

Compatibility with AGENTS.md repository instructions.

Zed calls this AGENTS.md
aix support Native
Project
Editor Supported aix Native
Path AGENTS.md
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: Zed compatibility is documented for workspace files, not a home-scoped AGENTS.md.

.agents/skills

Zed does not document native .agents/skills/ discovery.

Zed calls this .agents/skills
aix support No support
Project
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: aix uses pointer rules instead of .agents/skills/.
User
Editor No support aix No support
Editor: The editor does not expose this feature at this scope. aix: aix uses pointer rules instead of .agents/skills/.

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