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Claude Agent Acp — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Use Claude Agent SDK from any ACP client such as Zed.

How to install Claude Agent Acp

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open rivet-dev/claude-agent-acp and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Agent Acp does

Use Claude Agent SDK from any ACP client such as Zed!

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README

ACP adapter for the Claude Agent SDK

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Use [Claude Agent SDK](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview#branding-guidelines) from [ACP-compatible](https://agentclientprotocol.com) clients such as [Zed](https://zed.dev)!

This tool implements an ACP agent by using the official [Claude Agent SDK](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview), supporting:

Context @-mentions
Images
Tool calls (with permission requests)
Following
Edit review
TODO lists
Interactive (and background) terminals
Custom Slash commands
Client MCP servers

Learn more about the [Agent Client Protocol](https://agentclientprotocol.com/).

How to use

Zed

The latest version of Zed can already use this adapter out of the box.

To use Claude Agent, open the Agent Panel and click "New Claude Agent Thread" from the `+` button menu in the top-right:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ddce66c7-79ac-47a3-ad59-4a6a3ca74903

Read the docs on [External Agent](https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents) support.

Other clients

Or try it with any of the other [ACP compatible clients](https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/clients)!

Installation

Install the adapter from `npm`:

npm install -g @zed-industries/claude-agent-acp

You can then use `claude-agent-acp` as a regular ACP agent:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-... claude-agent-acp

Single-file executable

Pre-built single-file binaries are available on the [Releases](https://github.com/zed-industries/claude-agent-acp/releases) page for Linux, macOS, and Windows. These binaries bundle everything needed and don't require Node.js.