This New Protocol Will Change AI Coding Forever (ACP)

The future of AI coding is here. Zed just introduced ACP (Agent Client Protocol) - an open standard (similar to MCP) that connects any code editor to any AI coding assistant. Zed’s integration is only in beta, but if you want a glimpse into how we’ll all be working with AI in the near future – this is it. In this video, I’ll show you ACP in action: - Running both Claude Code and Gemini CLI threads in Zed - Watching Claude Code make live code changes you can accept or reject (always wished I had this!) - How ACP works, why it’s so powerful, and how it builds on protocols like LSP and MCP - Spinning up a custom ACP agent so you can build your own coding agents and launch them as threads - Bonus: a quick Archon demo, showing how it can manage Claude Code instances through ACP Note - this video is NOT sponsored by Zed. I'm genuinely blown away by ACP and want to share it with you! :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - If you’re looking for cost effective and hassle free cloud infrastructure to host your applications, check out fly.io: https://bit.ly/4mW6IFJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - If you want to completely explode your productivity with AI coding assistants in a single session, check out this exclusive workshop I'm hosting soon (limited spots available!): https://dynamous.ai/ai-coding-workshop - Rasmus' video diving into ACP and the Archon POC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69B3htkGMwc - Zed’s blog post introducing Claude Code in Zed: https://zed.dev/blog/claude-code-via-acp - ACP Documentation: https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction - Zed installation for Windows: https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=zed-nightly - Zed installation for Mac/Linux: https://zed.dev/download - Custom ACP agent example: https://github.com/zed-industries/agent-client-protocol/tree/main/typescript/examples ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 00:00 - Introducing the Agent Communication Protocol 01:17 - Zed's blog post for Claude Code and ACP 02:17 - ACP Demo (Claude Code and the Gemini CLI) 05:31 - How ACP Works Under the Hood 09:41 - Fly.io 11:25 - Custom Coding Agents with ACP 13:18 - Custom Agent Demo in Zed 14:21 - Claude Code + ACP Adapter 16:12 - Spicy Ideas for Archon + ACP 21:51 - Final Thoughts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos every week - Wednesdays at 7:00 PM CDT!