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Agent Client Protocol

Connect an editor or client host to an external coding agent.

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Revision
living
Maturity
active
Authority
ACP / Zed ecosystem
Structure
JSON-RPC; local stdio established and remote transport evolving
Roles
client, agent

ACP defines a boundary between coding agents and clients such as editors. Client and agent are asymmetric roles; a product can participate in one without implementing the other.

Assertions should identify role, transport, protocol revision, distribution method, and target release. A CLI flag or registry listing is not by itself full protocol conformance.

Catalog mapping

Atomic capability rows

Absence here means the feature tree has not yet been published, not that the specification lacks the capability.

No reviewed feature row is mapped yet. The specification reference remains useful for taxonomy and future contributions.

Conformance boundary

Proposed tests

Definitions only. No fixture has been executed against a harness.