~/distillery setup → zed

Overview

Zed is a high-performance collaborative code editor with built-in AI assistant support. Zed supports native Anthropic base URL configuration via the `language_models.anthropic.api_url` key in `settings.json`, no adapter needed. Once set, Zed's AI assistant routes all Claude requests through The Distillery.

Prerequisites

You have The Distillery installed and running locally on port 3080. Zed 0.150 or newer is required with the `anthropic` language model configured and an API key set.

Install Zed from the official site or via Homebrew:

brew install --cask zed

# Download from https://zed.dev/download (Windows preview build)

Open Zed settings.json via the command palette: `Cmd+,` (macOS) or `Ctrl+,` (Linux/Windows). Zed stores settings at:

Add or merge the following into settings.json. Save the file. Zed will reload settings automatically, no restart required.

{
  "language_models": {
    "anthropic": {
      "api_url": "http://localhost:3080",
      "version": "1"
    }
  }
}

~/.config/zed/settings.json

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Zed\settings.json