Installing Plugins

Plugins add functionality to Zed, including dock panels and title bar widgets.

Open the Plugins page with

Zed launches plugins out of process.

• On macOS, plugins run inside a host-managed sandbox with plugin-scoped writable paths.
• On Linux, plugins run with PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, a Landlock filesystem sandbox, and a seccomp filter that blocks mount, namespace, tracing, and kernel-instrumentation syscalls.
• On Windows, plugins run inside AppContainers with plugin-scoped filesystem access, and Zed also places them in dedicated Job Objects so the process tree is torn down cleanly with the host.

Plugins still run with your user account and can make network requests. Only install plugins you trust.

To install a plugin you are developing locally, click the Install Dev Plugin button (or the zed: install dev plugin action) and select the directory containing your plugin.

Use the search field to filter the list, or switch between the All, Installed, and Development filters.

Installation Location

• On macOS, plugins are installed in ~/Library/Application Support/Neo Zed/plugins.
• On Linux, they are installed in either $XDG_DATA_HOME/zed/plugins or ~/.local/share/neozed/plugins.
• On Windows, the directory is %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Zed\\plugins.

This directory contains two subdirectories:

• installed, which contains the managed copy of each installed plugin.
• development, which contains registrations for development plugins installed from local directories.