From ad4baba3064bba4b60f475b60352cac16f3dac4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bennet Bo Fenner <bennet@zed.dev>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] agent: Make new from summary less prominent (#60145)

Now that we have `/compact` we want to make the "new from summary"
option less prominent. You can still manually handoff to a new thread by
@mentioning the thread in a new one (`@thread threadname`)

Release Notes:

- agent: Remove "New from summary" menu item from agent panel dropdown.
You can still @mention the thread in a new one, or run /compact

Co-authored-by: gaauwe <gaauwe@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 crates/agent_ui/src/agent_panel.rs            | 30 -------------------
 .../src/conversation_view/thread_view.rs      |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/agent_ui/src/agent_panel.rs b/crates/agent_ui/src/agent_panel.rs
index 209a2e0fe0..6d608958e6 100644
--- a/crates/agent_ui/src/agent_panel.rs
+++ b/crates/agent_ui/src/agent_panel.rs
@@ -5900,13 +5900,6 @@ impl AgentPanel {
             (None, self.selected_agent.label())
         };
 
-        let active_thread = match &self.base_view {
-            BaseView::AgentThread { conversation_view } => {
-                conversation_view.read(cx).as_native_thread(cx)
-            }
-            BaseView::Terminal { .. } | BaseView::Uninitialized => None,
-        };
-
         let new_thread_menu_builder: Rc<
             dyn Fn(&mut Window, &mut App) -> Option<Entity<ContextMenu>>,
         > = {
@@ -5924,31 +5917,8 @@ impl AgentPanel {
             let agent_server_store = agent_server_store;
 
             Rc::new(move |window, cx| {
-                let active_thread = active_thread.clone();
                 Some(ContextMenu::build(window, cx, |menu, _window, cx| {
                     menu.context(focus_handle.clone())
-                        .when_some(active_thread, |this, active_thread| {
-                            let thread = active_thread.read(cx);
-
-                            if !thread.is_empty() {
-                                let session_id = thread.id().clone();
-                                this.item(
-                                    ContextMenuEntry::new("New From Summary")
-                                        .icon(IconName::ThreadFromSummary)
-                                        .icon_color(Color::Muted)
-                                        .handler(move |window, cx| {
-                                            window.dispatch_action(
-                                                Box::new(NewNativeAgentThreadFromSummary {
-                                                    from_session_id: session_id.clone(),
-                                                }),
-                                                cx,
-                                            );
-                                        }),
-                                )
-                            } else {
-                                this
-                            }
-                        })
                         .item(
                             ContextMenuEntry::new("Zed Agent")
                                 .when(
diff --git a/crates/agent_ui/src/conversation_view/thread_view.rs b/crates/agent_ui/src/conversation_view/thread_view.rs
index f43dfdaa34..b81340e7cc 100644
--- a/crates/agent_ui/src/conversation_view/thread_view.rs
+++ b/crates/agent_ui/src/conversation_view/thread_view.rs
@@ -10921,7 +10921,7 @@ impl ThreadView {
             ),
         };
 
-        let description = "To continue, start a new thread from a summary.";
+        let description = "To continue, run /compact or start a new thread and @-mention this one";
 
         Some(
             Callout::new()