# Zed 1.24: Drag Your Terminal Into the AI Agent Panel > Source: > Published: 2026-10-19 16:08:09+00:00 Zed 1.24.2 shipped on October 14 with one change that will save you several steps a day: you can now drag an existing terminal tab directly into the AI Agent Panel, converting it into a live Terminal Thread while keeping its shell history, working directory, and running processes exactly as they were. That, a 23% smaller Linux binary, and some overdue Amazon Bedrock fixes make this a release worth pulling today. ## Terminal Threads: From Tab to Context Terminal Threads have been in Zed since May 2026 — the idea being that you can run a terminal session as a managed thread alongside your AI agents, so build processes, test runners, and server logs live in the same sidebar as your agent conversations. What version 1.24 adds is **conversion**: you no longer have to start a terminal thread from scratch. Drag an existing terminal tab into the [Agent Panel](https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads) and Zed converts it on the spot, preserving title, shell history, current working directory, and any running processes. This matters because the useful context is almost never in a fresh shell. It’s in the terminal you’ve had open for the last twenty minutes — the one with the stack trace, the half-finished migration output, the server that’s been quietly logging. Before this change, getting that context to your agent meant copy-pasting chunks of output or describing what happened manually. Now you drag the tab over and the agent can see the session state directly. One small companion feature: `agent.prevent_idle_sleep`, enabled by default. While an agent thread is generating, Zed tells the OS not to sleep. Your screen can still lock and your display can still dim — only system sleep is suppressed, and only during active generation. You can turn it off in settings if you’d rather not have Zed touching your sleep policy. ## Linux Binary: 23% Smaller The x86_64 Linux binary sheds about 23% of its size in this release, achieved by stripping debug symbols from the release build. Nothing changes behaviorally — this is purely packaging. If you run Zed in Docker, CI, or on a storage-constrained machine, you’ll notice. Everyone else can feel mildly good about it and move on. ## Amazon Bedrock Gets More Configurable Custom Bedrock models can now have their tool use, image support, and thinking toggled per-configuration. Previously, custom models in Bedrock were limited — you got whatever defaults Zed chose, with no way to enable or disable specific capabilities. Version 1.24 also fixes a regression where missing reasoning options were dropped when applying a default model to an [Agent Client Protocol (ACP)](https://zed.dev/acp) session. If you use Bedrock and noticed that reasoning stopped working after updating to 1.23, this is your fix. On the model side: DeepSeek Flash 4.1 is now supported, and BYOK for Claude Opus 5.5 works via your Anthropic API key, so you’re not required to use Zed’s hosted credits for those models. ## Git: Create Tags, Compare Directories Git received a few quality-of-life additions. You can create tags directly from the editor now — there’s a `git: create tag at head` command and a context menu entry in the Git History and Git Graph views. Tags are not auto-pushed, which is the correct default. The `zed --diff` command gained a side-by-side view for directory diffs, and file counts appear in Git Panel section headers. gitiles was added as a hosting provider for Gerrit deployments. ## What This Release Actually Signals The terminal drag feature is a small surface change on top of a bigger architectural bet: Zed is building an editor designed for developers running two or three agents in parallel, each with their own terminal context. The [Agent Client Protocol](https://zed.dev/acp) lets you bring Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex CLI as first-class threads. The terminal drag means existing sessions can join that context without friction. Whether you find that compelling depends on whether you’ve bought into parallel-agent workflows at all — but if you have, these incremental integrations compound quickly. Zed entered the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey at 7.3% — not present in the 2024 survey — with a 57% admiration rate. The install base is still small, but the developers using it are clearly satisfied. Version 1.24.2 is a minor release that makes the core workflow tighter. Check the [release notes](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v1.24.2) and [download the update](https://zed.dev/releases/stable/latest).