Closes AI-403
Recently, we introduced the ability to pick, from the plus icon button
in a project's header in the sidebar, which of the currently loaded
worktree you'd like to create a new thread on. This PR extends this
ability by allowing you to _create_ a new worktree from there as well.
Turned out this just felt like a natural move after playing around with
the change internally; we had a good amount of internal asks for this.
What's exposed in the menu is exactly the same options available in the
worktree picker, following the same display rules.
<img width="650" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-15 at 12 22@2x"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ef45d93e-9106-46c6-9a8b-bc099036a7de"
/>
Release Notes:
- Agent: Enabled creating a new worktree from the sidebar's "new thread"
icon button.
Closes AI-286
This PR adds a right-click menu to thread items in the sidebar. A big
motivation for this addition was surfacing the "regenerate thread title"
action. And because this action and the "open thread as markdown" action
previously only worked on the already-loaded agent panel, there was a
load of plumbing needed to make that work even for threads in workspaces
that haven't been loaded, mostly using the thread metadata store. At the
end of the day, the title regeneration feature is only possible for the
Zed agent, so this is gated from external agents. But I believe it's now
in a slightly nicer spot due to some refactors to better expose the
state in which the title regeneration can fall into.
Release Notes:
- Agent: Added a right-click menu to thread items in the sidebar,
allowing to regenerate a thread title, rename a thread title, open the
thread as markdown, and archive it.
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Experiment with allowing users to manage terminal sessions along with
threads in the sidebar.
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This PR revamps our feature flag system, to enable richer iteration.
Feature flags can now:
- Support enum values, for richer configuration
- Be manually set via the settings file
- Be manually set via the settings UI
This PR also adds a feature flag to demonstrate this behavior, a
`agent-thread-worktree-label`, which controls which how the worktree tag
UI displays.
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> **Foundation PRs:** #53732, #53733, #53734 — These three draft PRs
contain the base refactors (retained workspaces, agent panel overlay
split, ThreadId introduction) that this PR builds on.
## Goal
Remove `DraftId` and merge `draft_threads` + `background_threads` into a
single `retained_threads: HashMap<ThreadId, Entity<ConversationView>>`
in `AgentPanel`. A draft is just a thread that hasn't sent its first
message — no separate identity or storage needed.
## Changes
### agent_panel.rs
- Remove `DraftId` / `DraftIdCounter` / the `Global` impl
- Merge the two maps into `retained_threads`
- Add `thread_id: ThreadId` field to `BaseView::AgentThread`
- Rename methods: `create_draft` → `create_thread`, `activate_draft` →
`activate_retained_thread`, `remove_draft` → `remove_thread`, etc.
- Replace `clear_active_thread` with `show_or_create_empty_draft`
- Update `update_thread_work_dirs` to sync `ThreadMetadataStore` paths
when worktrees change
- Keep `load_agent_thread(...)` cleanup so activating a real thread
removes empty retained drafts
### sidebar.rs
- Remove `active_entry` derivation from `rebuild_contents` (was racing
with deferred effects)
- Add `sync_active_entry_from_panel` called from event handlers instead
- Simplify `ActiveEntry` — remove `ThreadActivation` struct, make
`session_id` optional
- Move `seen_thread_ids` to global scope (was per-group, causing
duplicate thread entries)
- Remove dead code: `clear_draft`, `render_draft_thread`
- Generalize `pending_remote_thread_activation` into
`pending_thread_activation` so all persisted-thread activations suppress
fallback draft reconciliation
- Set the activation guard before local persisted-thread activation
switches workspaces
- Make `reconcile_groups(...)` bail while a persisted-thread activation
is in flight
- On `ActiveViewChanged`, clear empty group drafts as soon as a pending
persisted-thread activation resolves
### thread_metadata_store.rs
- Make `ThreadMetadata.title` an `Option<SharedString>` with
`display_title()` fallback
- Add `update_worktree_paths` for batched path updates when project
worktrees change
### Other crates
- Update all `ThreadMetadata` construction sites and title display sites
across `agent_ui` and `sidebar`
## Fallback draft invariant
This PR now tightens the retained-thread invariant around fallback
drafts vs real thread activation/restoration:
- Fallback drafts are always empty
- User-created drafts worth preserving are non-empty
- While a persisted thread is being activated/restored/loaded, sidebar
reconciliation must not create an empty fallback draft for that target
group/workspace
- Once the real thread becomes active, empty fallback drafts in that
target group are removed
This is enforced by the sidebar-side activation guard plus existing
`AgentPanel` empty-draft cleanup after real-thread load.
## Tests
Added and/or kept focused sidebar regression coverage for:
-
`test_confirm_on_historical_thread_in_new_project_group_opens_real_thread`
-
`test_unarchive_into_inactive_existing_workspace_does_not_leave_active_draft`
-
`test_unarchive_after_removing_parent_project_group_restores_real_thread`
- `test_pending_thread_activation_suppresses_reconcile_draft_creation`
Focused test runs:
- `cargo test -p sidebar activate_archived_thread -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p sidebar unarchive -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p sidebar archive_last_thread_on_linked_worktree --
--nocapture`
- `cargo test -p sidebar
test_confirm_on_historical_thread_in_new_project_group_opens_real_thread
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p sidebar
test_unarchive_into_inactive_existing_workspace_does_not_leave_active_draft
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p sidebar
test_unarchive_after_removing_parent_project_group_restores_real_thread
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p sidebar
test_pending_thread_activation_suppresses_reconcile_draft_creation --
--nocapture`
## Test fix
Fixed flaky `test_backfill_sets_kvp_flag` — added per-App `AppDatabase`
isolation in `setup_backfill_test` so backfill tests no longer share a
static in-memory DB.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikayla@zed.dev>
This PR greatly improves our handling of remote threads in the sidebar.
One primary issue was that many parts of the sidebar were only looking
at a thread's path list and not its remote connection information. The
fix here is to use `ProjectGroupKey` more consistently throughout the
sidebar which also includes remote connection information.
The second major change is to extend the MultiWorkspace with the ability
to initiate the creation of remote workspaces when needed. This involved
refactoring a lot of our remote workspace creation paths to share a
single code path for better consistency.
Release Notes:
- (Preview only) Fixed remote project threads appearing as a separate
local project in the sidebar
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Connect the git API and archived worktree data model to the sidebar's
archive/unarchive flow:
- Add `thread_worktree_archive` module: orchestrates the full archive
cycle (WIP commits, DB records, git refs, worktree deletion) and restore
cycle (detached worktree creation, reset to recover staged/unstaged
state, branch restoration)
- Integrate into sidebar: `archive_thread` now persists worktree state
before cleanup; `activate_archived_thread` restores worktrees via git
with targeted path replacement for multi-root threads
- Add pending worktree restore UI state with spinner and cancel button
- Show toast on restore failure instead of silent log
- Switch to surviving workspace when archiving active thread whose
workspace will be deleted
- Deserialize persisted `project_group_keys` on window restore
- Guard `cleanup_empty_workspaces` against dropped entities
- Await rollback DB operations instead of fire-and-forget
Part 3 of 3 in the persist-worktree stack. Stacked on #53214. This wires
up parts 1 and 2.
Release Notes:
- Added worktree state preservation when archiving agent threads,
automatically restoring staged and unstaged changes when the thread is
unarchived
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It's happening.
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Release Notes:
* [x] It's possible to get into a state where agent panel shows a thread
that is archived
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🫡
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Release Notes:
- Removed legacy Text Threads feature to help streamline the new agentic
workflows in Zed. Thanks to all of you who were enthusiastic Text Thread
users over the years ❤️!
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This PR implements basic sidebar deserialization. When the
multiworkspace decides to save itself, it causes the sidebar to
serialize as well. The sidebar can trigger this as well via an event.
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Icons aren't showing because I'm forcing the UI to be visible on macOS,
but things look ok on the right sidebar:
<img width="389" height="955" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-30 at 7 36 06 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/269fe9c9-1212-4c1e-b8d9-1694db70adf3"
/>
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Follow up to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/52720
This PR renders the same icons we do in the title bar depending on the
type of remote connection (SSH, WSL, etc.).
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This adds a collection that has a map-like API but is backed by vectors.
For small collections, this often outperforms a HashMap because you
don't have the overhead of hashing things and everything is guaranteed
to be contiguous in memory.
I hand-rolled one of these in `ProjectGroupBuilder` but this factors it
into its own collection. This implements the API that
`ProjectGroupBuilder` needed, but if this becomes more widely used we
can expand to include more of the `HashMap` API.
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Closes #ISSUE
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## Context
This adds a setting for controlling the sidebar side
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Remove old multiworkspace commands and fix a bug where multiworkspaces
wouldn't be deserialized from the DB
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- Selection/focus improvements (reduces flickers, move selection more
correctly throughout the list)
- Adds open folder button in the sidebar header
- Fixes sidebar header design, including the thread view one, too
- Fixes behavior of cmd-n when focused in the sidebar
- Changes the design for the "new thread" button in the sidebar and adds
a preview of the prompt on it
- Rename items in the "start thread in" dropdown
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* [x] Put back persistence of sidebar open state
* [x] when agent panel is docked right, put sidebar on the right side
* [x] remove stale entries from `SidebarsByWindow`
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This PR makes the "Open Project" button in the sidebar also open the
"Recent Projects" popover, while also anchoring that popover to the the
button on the sidebar instead.
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- Make clicking on the project header collapse/expand the group as
opposed to activating the workspace
- Added the "threads" label close to the sidebar toggle button
- Made the open folder icon button open the file finder directly as
opposed to the recent projects popover
Release Notes:
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It's happeningggggg
Release Notes:
- Changed the Agent Panel so that the Active Thread is restored on
restart.
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