ACP: How to connect Cursor CLI to Zed

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I’m trying to connect the Cursor CLI client in ACP mode to the Zed editor, but I’m encountering an issue where the editor returns an error: Internal error: “server shut down unexpectedly”.

Zed requires configuration in the following format:

{
      "type": "custom",
      "command": "...",
      "args": [...],
}

I’ve tried using just agent with arguments ["--api-key xxx", "acp"] as the command, as well as running it directly through node:

{
      "type": "custom",
      "command": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Local\\cursor-agent\\versions\\2026.02.27-e7d2ef6\\node.exe",
      "args": [
        "C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Local\\cursor-agent\\versions\\2026.02.27-e7d2ef6\\index.js",
        "--api-key xxx",
        "acp"
      ]
}

And also with arguments:

--print
--output-format stream-json
--stream-partial-output

Nothing worked

Has anyone managed to get Cursor working in Zed? Can you give me some advice?

3

I’m not sure how recently this was released but there is a cursor extension in Zed now. I just installed it and I was able to issue an initial prompt which worked. I did first run cursor-agent in the terminal to authenticate.

5

Yes, indeed, now the cursor plugin can simply be downloaded from the registry.

6

You can find the Cursor agent in the ACP Registry: Cmd+Shift+P “zed: acp registry”.