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Zed 1.9.0: Telescope-Style Pickers, Agent Panel Search, and Three New AI Models

Zed's stable 1.9.0 release ships resizable pickers with live previews, in-thread search for the Agent Panel, and adds GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code, and DeepSeek V4 Pro.

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Zed 1.9.0 shipped as a stable release on July 1, closing out a feature request that had accumulated 860 upvotes in the issue tracker: resizable, draggable pickers with live search previews, modeled after Telescope in Neovim.

Telescope-Style Pickers

The new picker opens as a floating modal. File and text finders now preview results as you type, rather than returning a list you have to navigate blind. You can drag the modal around and resize it. The text finder toggle activates the new search modal directly.

This was the most-requested UI feature in Zed’s history by vote count, so it’s a notable closure. The implementation integrates with the existing keyboard navigation model, so no new keybindings to learn.

The Agent Panel now supports Ctrl/Cmd+F for in-thread search, letting you find specific content inside long agent conversations. For anyone running extended coding sessions with context that runs long, this fills an obvious gap.

The options menu in the Agent Panel also gains a quick-add entry for remote MCP servers, cutting down the steps to connect external tooling.

Other agent improvements: file search results from the agent’s grep calls are improved, thread titles appear in notifications when Zed is not focused, and cloud-based provider model selection for saved threads is more reliable.

New Models: GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code, DeepSeek V4 Pro

Three models land in 1.9.0:

  • GLM 5.2 — added to OpenCode Go
  • Kimi K2.7 Code — added to OpenCode Go (this is the same model that landed in GitHub Copilot this week)
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro — available for OpenCode Zen tier

OpenAI-compatible provider setup for reasoning models also got fixes, contributed by community member razmser.

Removed: MiniMax M3 Free is gone from the model list.

Git Panel Updates

The Git Panel changes header gets a split button that promotes Stage All / Unstage All as the primary action and moves related change actions into a dropdown. There’s also a new Git blame toggle in the gutter’s right-click menu.

ACP and MCP Updates

Zed now supports embedded resources in tool calls via the Agent Communication Protocol. The git_panel.sort_by_path config key is deprecated in favor of a new sort/group configuration option.

The full release notes are at zed.dev/releases/stable/1.9.0.

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