Add Parallel Agents documentation - #53535
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- Fix archive section: clarify it holds all threads, add how to archive, restore, and permanently delete threads - Fix agent selection: use new thread menu, not model selector - Update worktree isolation: simplify selector description, add new_thread_location setting, clarify archive worktree behavior - Update default layout version phrasing
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# Conflicts: # docs/src/ai/agent-panel.md
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Little tweaks only but looking great! 
| - Choose **New From Summary** to start a fresh Zed Agent thread seeded with a summary of the current conversation — useful for compacting long threads as you approach the context window limit. | ||
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| When an external-agent thread is focused, {#action agent::NewExternalAgentThread} creates another thread with the same external agent. |
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We should be able to say here that hitting this keybinding will always create a new thread with the currently selected agent. Not a particular thing for external agents-only.
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Good catch, updating!
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Adds documentation for the Parallel Agents feature. ## Changes - **New page** `docs/src/ai/parallel-agents.md`: covers the Threads Sidebar component, switching threads, the archive and search, importing ACP threads, running multiple threads, multiple projects, worktree isolation, and the default layout change - **`docs/src/ai/overview.md`**: rewrites the Agentic editing section to lead with the Threads Sidebar, adds Parallel Agents to the Getting started links - **`docs/src/ai/agent-panel.md`**: adds a cross-link to the Threads Sidebar in Creating New Threads, removes the Navigating History section (now covered in the Threads Sidebar docs) - **`docs/src/SUMMARY.md`**: adds Parallel Agents between External Agents and Inline Assistant Release Notes: - N/A --------- Co-authored-by: Katie Geer <katie@zed.dev> Co-authored-by: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds documentation for the Parallel Agents feature. ## Changes - **New page** `docs/src/ai/parallel-agents.md`: covers the Threads Sidebar component, switching threads, the archive and search, importing ACP threads, running multiple threads, multiple projects, worktree isolation, and the default layout change - **`docs/src/ai/overview.md`**: rewrites the Agentic editing section to lead with the Threads Sidebar, adds Parallel Agents to the Getting started links - **`docs/src/ai/agent-panel.md`**: adds a cross-link to the Threads Sidebar in Creating New Threads, removes the Navigating History section (now covered in the Threads Sidebar docs) - **`docs/src/SUMMARY.md`**: adds Parallel Agents between External Agents and Inline Assistant Release Notes: - N/A --------- Co-authored-by: Katie Geer <katie@zed.dev> Co-authored-by: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds documentation for the Parallel Agents feature. ## Changes - **New page** `docs/src/ai/parallel-agents.md`: covers the Threads Sidebar component, switching threads, the archive and search, importing ACP threads, running multiple threads, multiple projects, worktree isolation, and the default layout change - **`docs/src/ai/overview.md`**: rewrites the Agentic editing section to lead with the Threads Sidebar, adds Parallel Agents to the Getting started links - **`docs/src/ai/agent-panel.md`**: adds a cross-link to the Threads Sidebar in Creating New Threads, removes the Navigating History section (now covered in the Threads Sidebar docs) - **`docs/src/SUMMARY.md`**: adds Parallel Agents between External Agents and Inline Assistant Release Notes: - N/A --------- Co-authored-by: Katie Geer <katie@zed.dev> Co-authored-by: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds documentation for the Parallel Agents feature. ## Changes - **New page** `docs/src/ai/parallel-agents.md`: covers the Threads Sidebar component, switching threads, the archive and search, importing ACP threads, running multiple threads, multiple projects, worktree isolation, and the default layout change - **`docs/src/ai/overview.md`**: rewrites the Agentic editing section to lead with the Threads Sidebar, adds Parallel Agents to the Getting started links - **`docs/src/ai/agent-panel.md`**: adds a cross-link to the Threads Sidebar in Creating New Threads, removes the Navigating History section (now covered in the Threads Sidebar docs) - **`docs/src/SUMMARY.md`**: adds Parallel Agents between External Agents and Inline Assistant Release Notes: - N/A --------- Co-authored-by: Katie Geer <katie@zed.dev> Co-authored-by: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds documentation for the Parallel Agents feature.
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docs/src/ai/parallel-agents.md: covers the Threads Sidebar component, switching threads, the archive and search, importing ACP threads, running multiple threads, multiple projects, worktree isolation, and the default layout changedocs/src/ai/overview.md: rewrites the Agentic editing section to lead with the Threads Sidebar, adds Parallel Agents to the Getting started linksdocs/src/ai/agent-panel.md: adds a cross-link to the Threads Sidebar in Creating New Threads, removes the Navigating History section (now covered in the Threads Sidebar docs)docs/src/SUMMARY.md: adds Parallel Agents between External Agents and Inline AssistantRelease Notes: