Installing Extensions

Browse, install, and manage extensions from the Zed Extension Gallery.

Extensions add functionality to Zed, including languages, themes, and AI tools. Browse and install them from the Extension Gallery.

Open the Extension Gallery with zed::Extensions, or select "Zed > Extensions" from the menu bar.

Installation Location

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

This directory contains two subdirectories:

installed, which contains the source code for each extension.
work which contains files created by the extension itself, such as downloaded language servers.

To automate extension installation/uninstallation see the docs for auto_install_extensions.