If you have ever scrolled through a 200-message Zed agent thread hunting for that one function name the model mentioned three prompts ago, you know the pain. PR #57231 just landed in Zed's main branch and fixes exactly that: a full search bar inside the agent panel, triggered by the same Ctrl+F / Cmd+F shortcut you already use everywhere else in the editor.
What just shipped
The PR adds a search bar to the agent panel, triggered by Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on macOS), that lets users grep the currently-loaded thread without leaving the agent panel.
It is scoped to the active thread only , not cross-thread or cross-agent , and it searches visible content: user messages, assistant message chunks, and tool-call labels.
The search bar is a custom component built specifically for the agent panel. Because the agent panel is not a standard workspace item, the existing BufferSearchBar + SearchableItem plumbing used by code editors does not apply. Instead, the new bar reuses Zed's SearchQuery for parsing and the same toggle button visuals as the buffer search bar, so it feels immediately familiar.
What it can do
- Next/prev navigation via
Enter/Shift+Enter,F3/Shift+F3, or the chevron buttons in the bar - Case-sensitive, whole-word, and regex toggles , same
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