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Workshop skills in Zed

Zed's assistant reads AGENTS.md as standing instruction and can host external agents over ACP — including agents with a real skills directory. The drawer below works for both halves: one folder of bundles, one paragraph of instructions.

The drawer

project layout

workshop-drawer/ AGENTS.md skills/ silent-lineup/ (from silent-lineup.zip) worst-idea-first/ (from worst-idea-first.zip) curl -LO https://workshopskill.com/en/activities/silent-lineup/files/silent-lineup.zip && unzip silent-lineup.zip -d skills/

AGENTS.md

# Workshop drawer skills/ holds Agent-Skill folders from https://workshopskill.com. Prep requests: match the brief against each SKILL.md metadata, open only the match, run its commands as printed, answer from the folder — not from memory. The live-measure step needs my OK.

When you want full skill loading

Run Claude Code as an ACP agent inside Zed and install the same bundles into ~/.claude/skills/: Zed becomes the editor, the hosted agent becomes the loader, the drawer stays one shared directory. The Claude Code walkthrough covers the install lines.

Notes

Keep AGENTS.md short. It is every-session context; the skill files are the on-demand knowledge.
Terminal tool on. The curl steps and the unzip are the install; without shell approval the pattern degrades to paste-and-read.
Everything is plain files — which is the point: the same drawer serves Zed today and another agent next year.

keep going

Claude Code walkthroughThe native-loader route Zed can host via ACP. The skills, end to endThe three-step workflow. opencode walkthroughAnother terminal editor with AGENTS.md.

questions

Does Zed match skill descriptions itself?

The hosted model does, guided by AGENTS.md — no loader needed, no matching lost: the metadata fields are the same ones a loader would read.

Can I edit SKILL.md in Zed?

Yes; it is markdown. Fork it, restyle it, keep attribution — CC BY 4.0.

Do bundles work with Zed's open-source agents?

Any agent that can read files in the project — yes. That is the whole install story for Zed: files are the interface.