tuchsoft/zed-use-subagent-skill

This project is a skill for the Zed code editor that helps you control which AI model handles which kind of task when Zed delegates work to a subagent. The author calls it a temporary workaround, meant to be dropped once Zed ships its own built in way to manage subagents, and the project will stop being maintained once that happens. Once installed, it adds a command line tool called zsetagent. With it you can list the task types you have configured, such as coding, browser testing, or exploring a codebase, and assign a specific AI model and provider to each one. For example you might want a stronger, slower model for writing code but a faster, cheaper model for simply exploring files. Each task type can also have its own instruction file describing what that kind of subagent is good at, when to use it, and a required snippet of text to always include when handing it work. Setup involves cloning the project into a specific folder used by Zed's agent skills, then symlinking the zsetagent script into a folder already on your command line path, editing a configuration file with your preferred models, and finally running a command that regenerates the skill's documentation file from that configuration. The README stresses that none of this should happen automatically. The tool is meant to walk you through the setup step by step and ask for confirmation before writing or downloading anything. The project explicitly does not support Windows, because it relies on Unix style file paths and symbolic links. It is written in JavaScript and is aimed at developers already using Zed and its subagent delegation feature who want more control over model choice than the editor currently offers on its own. The README does not state a license for this project.