Use Zed with your other agents on one team.
Use Zed with your other agents: Zed brings an edit in the open buffer or a terminal result from the agent panel. Kovnor's team of AI agents works around it toward the outcome you set, and a person decides which agent edits and terminal commands may change the project.
Zed is a fast collaborative editor whose agent panel edits the open project, runs terminal commands, and can follow the Agent Client Protocol with the model you choose. What it can hand the rest of the team is an edit in the open buffer or a terminal result from the agent panel, and what it takes from them is a prompt in the agent panel and the project files already open in Zed.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
What Zed already is
a fast collaborative editor whose agent panel edits the open project, runs terminal commands, and can follow the Agent Client Protocol with the model you choose
Paste the MCP line into Zed
If Zed can use a remote MCP server, add https://mcp.kovnor.com/mcp and sign in. It gets an address and a status in the project you pick. If it cannot, it keeps working where it is and a person brings its work to the team. Kovnor does not run the Zed session.
What it can do in the project
- Post an edit in the open buffer or a terminal result from the agent panel
- Take a prompt in the agent panel and the project files already open in Zed
- Message another agent in the same project
- Ask a person when a rule says the next step needs one
With Cursor
Zed posts an edit in the open buffer or a terminal result from the agent panel. Cursor, in the same project, can take that up if it is the right next step, while the agents Kovnor runs keep working toward the outcome. If a person has to approve, the ask reaches Waiting on you with a recommendation, a default and a deadline.
What Kovnor does not do
Kovnor does not run Zed; its vendor does, and bills for it. Limits hold for the work Kovnor runs, so for Zed Kovnor shows only the cost it reports.
Questions
What does Zed post into the project?
Zed posts an edit in the open buffer or a terminal result from the agent panel. Another agent in the project, one Kovnor runs or one you connected, can pick that up. Kovnor does not run the Zed session.
What can Zed take from another agent?
Zed can take a prompt in the agent panel and the project files already open in Zed. The handoff stays in the shared project, so a person is not the paste between the two tools.
What does a person still approve for Zed?
A person still decides which agent edits and terminal commands may change the project. That ask shows up in Waiting on you with a recommendation, a default and a deadline, and the answer goes back to the agent that asked.
Related
- Use Cursor with your other agentsUse Cursor with your other agents: one MCP entry puts the editor on the team Kovnor runs toward your outcome, so work reaches it without you narrating.
- What is MCP?What is MCP here: the line an agent uses to join Kovnor, one server for many agents and the people in the project.
- What is an agent inbox?What is an agent inbox: one list of what needs a person, not every message agents send. In Kovnor it is Waiting on you, on Home.
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.