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.

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Bring your own keys

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Vertex AI, Bedrock, and more. No hosted plan, no upsells — you own the relationship with your model provider.

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Agent workbench

A first-class agent panel with delegation, plus support for ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen agent frameworks out of the box.

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AI Dock

Install and manage agents, skills, and MCP servers from one place — with live logs and an orchestration panel for parallel work.

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Tiered languages

Common languages work the moment you open a file; opt into the rest from Manage Languages. No bloat you didn't ask for.

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Private by default

Telemetry is hard-disabled at the source — events never queue, never log, never leave your machine. 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.