Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
JSON-RPC protocol that lets any code editor run any coding agent, locally over stdio or remotely over HTTP.
Reference by Created by Zed Industries
About
Use cases: code-generation
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About the protocol
- Specification
- agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/introduction
- Current version
- Protocol version 1 (stable)github.com
- Maintainer
- Created by Zed Industrieszed.dev
- Launched
- 2025-08-27zed.dev
- Zed launched ACP with Gemini CLI as the first reference agent. zed.dev
- Clients include Zed, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim and Emacs plugins, and several VS Code extensions. agentclientprotocol.com
Listings that use it
27 visible listings declare Agent Client Protocol (ACP): 27 agents.
Agents
- 0.736score
Zed Agent
Zed Industries
Agent built into the Zed code editor that edits files, navigates code and runs tools, with changes reviewed in a diff
AgentAFreshness: A★ 92.1K - 0.731score
Open Interpreter
Open Interpreter
Terminal coding agent, forked from OpenAI's Codex, tuned for low-cost open models and compatible with ACP editors
AgentAFreshness: A★ 68.7K - 0.728score
Goose
Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)
Open-source general-purpose agent with a desktop app, CLI and API that works with many LLM providers and MCP extensions
AgentAFreshness: A★ 55.6K - 0.721score
DeepSeek-Reasonix
esengine
Open-source coding agent for terminal, desktop, browser and editor that edits files and runs commands and tests
AgentAFreshness: A★ 36K - 0.703score
avante.nvim
avante
Neovim plugin that gives AI code suggestions and applies them to your files, modeled on the Cursor IDE
AgentAFreshness: A★ 18.2K - 0.692score
Kimi Code CLI
Moonshot AI
Terminal coding agent from Moonshot AI that edits code and runs commands, with MCP, skills and ACP support.
AgentAFreshness: A★ 8K↓ 71.3K/wk
Signals
- Stars
- 4,494
- Forks
- 447
- Open issues
- 5
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Last release
- Oct 16, 2026 (12 days ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- Version
- Protocol version 1 (stable)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
Cite this page
Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/reference/agent-client-protocol (last updated 2026-10-24)