Bring your own keys
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Gemini Enterprise, Bedrock, and more. No hosted plan, no upsells — you own the relationship with your model provider.
Alpha · build from source
The AI-native code editor you actually own.
PaddleBoard is a fork of Zed tuned for agentic development: bring your own model keys, run a built-in agent workbench, and manage agents, skills, and MCP servers from one place — with no telemetry and no hosted plan.
Everything you'd expect, nothing you didn't ask for
PaddleBoard layers an AI-native workflow on top of Zed — on your terms.
Agent workbench
A first-class agent panel with delegation, plus support for ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen agent frameworks out of the box.
AI Dock
Install and manage agents, skills, and MCP servers from one place — with live logs and an orchestration panel for parallel work.
Tiered languages
Common languages — now including Dockerfiles and Podman Containerfiles — work the moment you open a file; opt into the rest from Manage Languages. No bloat you didn't ask for.
Private by default
Telemetry is hard-disabled at the source — events never queue, never log, never leave your machine. Even spelling and grammar checking runs fully offline. No account required.
Built on Zed
All of Zed's speed and multibuffer editing, inherited and kept in sync — with PaddleBoard's AI-native additions layered on top.
Ready to paddle your own board?
It's alpha and built from source today — released binaries are on the way. Builds aren't notarized by Apple yet, so distributed macOS apps will need a Gatekeeper bypass for now.