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1. tree-sitter · zed-quests · 2013– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2013–",
     "detail": "brunsfeld's nights-and-weekends side project that ate the industry — incremental glr parsing now inside github.com, neovim, helix, emacs, lapce, and zed itself, whose extensions compile tree-sitter grammars to wasm. the founders' largest prior artifact, bigger than atom.",
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     "owner": "brunsfeld",
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       "src-hp-galois-treesitter",
       "src-hp-zed-extensions-decoded"
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     "status": "handed-off",
     "title": "tree-sitter",
     "url": "https://tree-sitter.github.io"
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2. xray and memo · zed-quests · 2017–2019 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2017–2019",
     "detail": "the failed restart inside github — rust core, web ui turned client/server, rgasplit-variant crdt — plus memo, the operation-based vcs tracking changes at keystroke level. github shelved it post-microsoft-acquisition; every idea in it shipped later inside zed, and memo shipped eight years late as deltadb.",
     "id": "qst-xray-memo",
     "owner": "sobo",
     "sourceIds": [
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       "src-hp-xray-readme",
       "src-hp-xray-update",
       "src-ci-xray-dead"
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     "status": "ended",
     "title": "xray and memo",
     "url": "https://github.com/atom-archive/xray"
   }

3. the ditto crdt years · zed-quests · ~2019–2021 (approximate)

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     "dates": "~2019–2021",
     "detail": "scandurra's between-jobs chapter — roughly two years at ditto building a crdt database in rust while zed stayed a nights-and-weekends repo. the reason zed's multiplayer internals were designed by someone who had already built the same primitives twice.",
     "id": "qst-ditto",
     "owner": "scandurra",
     "sourceIds": [
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       "src-hp-zed-week1"
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     "status": "ended",
     "title": "the ditto crdt years",
     "url": null
   }

4. the warp detour · zed-quests · 2020–2021 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2020–2021",
     "detail": "sobo's three-month employment at warp — he brought the zed code with him, then left because he 'couldn't let go' of the editor. the ip separation is undocumented; recorded in the gaps ledger.",
     "id": "qst-warp",
     "owner": "sobo",
     "sourceIds": [
       "src-hp-zed-week1"
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     "status": "ended",
     "title": "the warp detour",
     "url": null
   }

5. gpui · zed-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2021–",
     "detail": "the gpu-accelerated rust ui framework — apache-2 since january 2024, metal on macos, vulkan on linux, a hand-built directx 11 backend on windows. deliberately not published as a supported standalone crate; the community builds on it anyway — longbridge's gpui-component, and apps like loungy, zedis, gtop, and termy in the awesome-gpui catalog.",
     "id": "qst-gpui",
     "owner": "company",
     "sourceIds": [
       "src-hp-zed-gpui-ownership",
       "src-ci-videogame-gpui",
       "src-hp-gpui-rs",
       "src-ci-awesome-gpui",
       "src-ci-gpui-component",
       "src-hp-zed-jason-lee"
     ],
     "status": "active",
     "title": "gpui",
     "url": "https://gpui.rs"
   }

6. the extension registry · zed-quests · 2024– (approximate)

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   {
     "dates": "2024–",
     "detail": "the wasm/wit-sandboxed extension ecosystem — a registry repo since february 2024, ~1,119 listed entries and ~1,562 tracked including unlisted by mid-2026 across themes, grammars, lsps, mcp context servers, and debug adapters. deliberately narrower than atom's api — and the durable criticism of the platform.",
     "id": "qst-extensions",
     "owner": "company",
     "sourceIds": [
       "src-hp-gh-extensions-repo",
       "src-ci-language-extensions",
       "src-hp-zed-extensions-decoded",
       "src-hp-ghext-tracker"
     ],
     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "the extension registry",
     "url": "https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions"
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7. channels and chat · zed-quests · 2024–2026 (approximate)

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   {
     "dates": "2024–2026",
     "detail": "channels and in-editor chat — 'zed is our office' made the collaboration thesis literal, but adoption stayed low ('very few people leverage collab today'), the chat panel was removed wholesale, and the collaboration bet re-platformed into delta rather than dying.",
     "id": "qst-channels",
     "owner": "company",
     "sourceIds": [
       "src-hp-zed-channels",
       "src-ci-zed-office",
       "src-ci-gh-remove-chat",
       "src-ci-gh-signin-issue",
       "src-hp-zed-delta"
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     "status": "handed-off",
     "title": "channels and chat",
     "url": "https://zed.dev/docs/collaboration/channels"
   }

8. agent client protocol · zed-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025–",
     "detail": "the agent client protocol — open json-rpc over stdio, apache-2, gemini cli as reference agent, adopted or echoed by jetbrains; a registry since january 2026; agents include claude code, codex, opencode, and cursor. zed's bid to be the neutral surface, not the deepest bundled agent.",
     "id": "qst-acp",
     "owner": "company",
     "sourceIds": [
       "src-hp-zed-acp",
       "src-hp-zed-jetbrains-acp",
       "src-hp-zed-acp-registry",
       "src-hp-zed-agent-ext",
       "src-hp-zed-10"
     ],
     "status": "active",
     "title": "agent client protocol",
     "url": "https://zed.dev/blog/bring-your-own-agent-to-zed"
   }

9. zeta, the open model · zed-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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   {
     "dates": "2025–",
     "detail": "the open edit-prediction model line — zeta (a qwen2.5-coder-7b fine-tune) shipped with open weights and an open dataset on hugging face; zeta2 rebuilt 'from the training data up' in march 2026; zeta2.1 claims 3x fewer tokens and 50ms faster predictions (self-reported).",
     "id": "qst-zeta",
     "owner": "company",
     "sourceIds": [
       "src-ci-edit-prediction",
       "src-hp-hf-zeta",
       "src-hp-zed-zeta2",
       "src-hp-zed-zeta21"
     ],
     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "zeta, the open model",
     "url": "https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta"
   }

10. deltadb and delta · zed-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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    {
      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "the 'second half of the plan' — operation-based crdt version control compatible with git, versioning worktree and conversation together. private beta august 12, 2026; public beta september 16 with pull requests disabled on its own repo; product at delta.dev. the memo idea from xray, finally shipped.",
      "id": "qst-delta",
      "owner": "company",
      "sourceIds": [
        "src-hp-zed-deltadb",
        "src-hp-zed-delta",
        "src-hp-zed-delta-public",
        "src-hp-delta-dev"
      ],
      "status": "active",
      "title": "deltadb and delta",
      "url": "https://delta.dev"
    }

11. fireside hacks to the zed guild · zed-quests · 2024– (approximate)

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    {
      "dates": "2024–",
      "detail": "the community-program stack — fireside hacks at open-sourcing, 'hired through github' contributor-to-employee pipeline, community champions (june 2026), and the zed guild experiment with its june 16 retrospective.",
      "id": "qst-community-programs",
      "owner": "company",
      "sourceIds": [
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        "src-hp-zed-hired-gh1",
        "src-hp-zed-community-champions",
        "src-hp-zed-guild"
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      "status": "continuing",
      "title": "fireside hacks to the zed guild",
      "url": null
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12. zed decoded · zed-quests · 2024 (year)

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    {
      "dates": "2024",
      "detail": "the engineering interview series thorsten ball ran — rope and sumtree, async rust, 'why not just embed neovim?', extensions, and the founder postmortems. it made zed's blog a respected rust-engineering publication independent of the product, then ended when ball left in january 2025.",
      "id": "qst-zed-decoded",
      "owner": "alumni",
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        "src-ci-zed-decoded-async",
        "src-ci-hn-async-rust",
        "src-hp-zed-extensions-decoded",
        "src-hp-thorsten-linkedin"
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      "status": "ended",
      "title": "zed decoded",
      "url": "https://zed.dev/blog"
    }

13. zedless · zed-quests · 2025– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025–",
      "detail": "the community's answer to the trust ledger — a privacy/local-first fork that removes telemetry, crash reporting, non-selfhostable cloud dependencies, and the cla: 'no rugpulls.' proof that gpl means forkable, and a standing vote of no-confidence in the defaults.",
      "id": "qst-zedless",
      "owner": "community",
      "sourceIds": [
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        "src-ci-hn-zedless"
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      "status": "continuing",
      "title": "zedless",
      "url": "https://github.com/zedless-editor/zedless/"
    }