Overview - Zed

# Assistant

The Assistant is a powerful tool that integrates large language models into your development workflow.

This section covers various aspects of the Assistant:

- Assistant Panel: Create and collaboratively edit new chats, and manage interactions with language models.

- Inline Assistant: Discover how to use the Assistant to power inline transformations directly within your code editor and terminal.

- Providers & Configuration: Configure the Assistant, and set up different language model providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, LM Studio, Google Gemini, and GitHub Copilot Chat.

- Introducing Contexts: Learn about contexts (similar to conversations), and learn how they power your interactions between you, your project, and the assistant/model.

- Using Commands: Explore slash commands that enhance the Assistant's capabilities and future extensibility.

- Prompting & Prompt Library: Learn how to write and save prompts, how to use the Prompt Library, and how to edit prompt templates.

- Context Servers: Learn about context servers that enhance the Assistant's capabilities via the Model Context Protocol.