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Zed support details

Native rules and MCP, native Agent Skills, and prompts convert to skills.

Zed is a strong target for rules, MCP, and skills after the v1.4.2 native skills update.

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 at project scope; user-scope rules go to ~/.config/zed/AGENTS.md.
  • Zed native Agent Skills live at .agents/skills/<name>/; aix manages them via .aix/skills/ symlinks.
  • Prompts are converted to Zed skills because Zed has no file-based prompt format.

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 at project scope; ~/.config/zed/AGENTS.md at user scope.

Zed calls this Rules
aix support Native
Project
Editor Supported aix Native
Path .rules
User
Editor Supported aix Native
Path ~/.config/zed/AGENTS.md
  • Zed also auto-detects AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and other compatibility files.

Prompts Learn the concept

Prompts are converted to Zed Agent Skills because Zed has no file-based prompt format.

Zed calls this Agent Skills (converted)
aix support Adapter
Project
Editor Supported aix Adapter
Path .agents/skills/
aix: aix converts prompts to Agent Skills in .agents/skills/<name>/.
User
Editor Supported aix Adapter
Path ~/.agents/skills/
aix: aix converts prompts to Agent Skills in ~/.agents/skills/<name>/.
  • 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

Native Zed Agent Skills. aix copies skills to .aix/skills/ and symlinks into .agents/skills/<name>/.

Zed calls this Agent Skills
aix support Native
Project
Editor Supported aix Native
Path .agents/skills/
User
Editor Supported aix Native
Path ~/.agents/skills/

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 discovers skills at .agents/skills/<name>/ (project) and ~/.agents/skills/<name>/ (user).

Zed calls this .agents/skills
aix support Native
Project
Editor Supported aix Native
Path .agents/skills/
User
Editor Supported aix Native
Path ~/.agents/skills/

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