Custom agents chat history

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Could Zed store all conversations with agents somewhere?

Custom agents still don't support history of all chats with them, which makes it very hard to use zed for agentic workflows.

Why does this matter?

This is a bit of an xy problem: since the ACP registry downloads its own node/other dependencies, which is broken on non-fhs systems like nixos, I can't use agents from there (those agents, it seems, support chat history). Therefore I write a custom agent configuration with a command to run cursor-cli, and that works

What becomes easier or possible?: If there's one universal way to store all ACP conversations, that's a unifying abstraction and less agent-specific code to maintain (I'm saying this not knowing how it is under the hood, so sorry).

Are there any examples or context?

Create a custom agent, start a conversation, then open a new one. Now how do you access the old conversation?

Possible approach

I don't have implementation ideas, my apologies.

[JacobNWolf]

I'm in the same boat and this is what's keeping me from abandoning the Cursor IDE to move to Zed.

I want to use the Cursor Agent, as I find their system prompt and tuning is best in class (having used Claude Code, OpenCode, Copilot, and Zed's native agent), while getting the benefits of Zed. So far trying that has gone really well, except I can't go back into my old conversations.

Would really love this fixed somehow!

[jimasun]

Confirming this or similar issue: MacOs Zed 0.231.2; Claude Code -> ACP

I am using Claude Code via ACP on a MacOs. The main reason I use ACP is because I am able to control Claude Code's configuration (the skills, rules, agents, etc) locally - this way I can also use Clause Code's CLI locally having the same settings.

This issues I have are both related to local projects and remote projects (Arch-ARM on using OrbStack).

For remote projects.

1. There is no history. Any thread I start in remote project will be lost.

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2. Another issue related to history. Starting (or having Zed started) a new thread on a local project but not typing anything in it. Then switching to the remote project and back to local will cause this issue:

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