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@GoldStrikeArch GoldStrikeArch commented Nov 8, 2025

Closes #31351

Diagnostics Mention in New Threads

Overview

Adds the @diagnostics mention to the new Agent Panel threads so users can inject current LSP diagnostics (errors by default) without switching to a text thread. The diagnostics mention is fully integrated into ACP mention parsing, the context picker, and the message-editor pipeline so it round-trips cleanly and shows up in the standard @ menu.

Context

  • Request: bring /diagnostics parity to the “New Thread” assistant experience.
  • Scope: diagnostics only; /terminal mention would be implemented in a separate PR.
  • Docs: updated Agent Panel docs + changelog.

Implementation Details

  1. Mention plumbing

    • Added MentionUri::Diagnostics to acp_thread, including parsing (zed:///agent/diagnostics?include_warnings=true) and icon/name metadata.
    • Tests ensure diagnostics links round-trip via Markdown mention serialization.
  2. Context picker / completion

    • New ContextPickerMode::Diagnostics exposes an @diagnostics entry in the mention menu.
    • Completions turn @diagnostics into a fully fledged mention, reusing the existing confirmation pipeline.
  3. Message editor + thread serialization

    • Resolving the mention calls the existing diagnostics collector from assistant_slash_commands, embedding the tool output inline with other context blocks (<diagnostics>…</diagnostics>).
    • Thread-link handling ignores diagnostics backlinks so clicking them doesn’t try to reopen nonexistent resources.

How it looks

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Release Notes:

  • Added @diagnostics to “New Thread” conversations so you can feed current language-server diagnostics directly into the Agent Panel context. This keeps parity with text threads while staying within the cursor-aware assistant workflow.

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@bennetbo Hi! Any updates on this one?

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bennetbo commented Dec 5, 2025

Thank you for working on this! Generally this seems like a good addition, but I think we can make the UX a bit nicer:
When typing @diagnostics we should show a menu with two completions, "Errors (X)" and "Errors (X) and Warnings (Y)", where X is the number of errors and Y is the number of warnings. It would be nice to have the same indication on the crease (after the user confirmed the completion) as well.

Are you interested in working on these improvements?

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GoldStrikeArch commented Dec 5, 2025

Thank you for working on this! Generally this seems like a good addition, but I think we can make the UX a bit nicer: When typing @diagnostics we should show a menu with two completions, "Errors (X)" and "Errors (X) and Warnings (Y)", where X is the number of errors and Y is the number of warnings. It would be nice to have the same indication on the crease (after the user confirmed the completion) as well.

Are you interested in working on these improvements?

Yeah, we can do it. But shouldn't it be a 3 completions then? errors (if any), warnings (if any), errors + warnings

I didn't get this though:

It would be nice to have the same indication on the crease (after the user confirmed the completion) as well.

What is the "same indication on the crease"?

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bennetbo commented Dec 5, 2025

Yeah we can also add warnings only.

What is the "same indication on the crease"?

Instead of having this:
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It would be nice to indicate how many errors & warnings are included in the crease, we have something similar for text threads:
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Instead of having this:

Oh, I see, yeah, I guess we can adjust it to be like that, no problem. I will take care of it and update this PR

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@bennetbo Now it should look like this in the "agent chat text area" ->
Screenshot 2025-12-05 at 18 00 24

But in the Agent Chat itself, once you submit the message it looks like this (which I think is okay) ->
Screenshot 2025-12-05 at 18 00 03

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@bennetbo Hi, any update on this one?

Btw, I can also create the /terminal (to paste terminal output into the Agent Panel) command in this PR as initially I planned to do it in a separate PR once this is merged but it is already taking a while, wdyt?

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bennetbo commented Jan 6, 2026

Hey, sorry for taking a long time to review @GoldStrikeArch . I think what I was trying to suggest was having the three options (warnings/errors/errors+warnings) in a submenu, not at the top level. The behaviour should be:
0 Errors & Warnings -> Typing @ does not show the "Diagnostics" entry
At least one error or warning -> Typing @ does show the "Diagnostics" entry
Once I confirm the "Diagnostics" entry with enter/tab or manually type @diagnostics I should see a submenu with the three options:

  • X errors (Only visible when there are errors)
  • Y warnings (Only visible when there are warnings)
  • X errors & Y warnings (Only visible when there are errors & warnings)

We could probably skip the submenu step in case the user only has errors/warnings but let's not specialise this case for now and keep the behaviour consistent.

Regarding @terminal: I'm not sure how valuable this would be with what we support currently. How should we decide which text to include from the terminal when using @terminal? It would be nice if we could capture the output of the last command that was run from the terminal. However, we don't have support for OSC133, which would allow us to extract the semantic information we need for this (Alacritty does not support it). For now, therefore, we would need to fall back to a fixed number of lines. Personally I don't think that is more valuable than just letting the user copy the text manually from the terminal.

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How should we decide which text to include from the terminal when using @Terminal?

@bennetbo I think you just paste the whole output (stdout/stderr) to it. It is not that hard to copy-paste it ATM but I guess having it as the "convenient shortcut" is nice (it was also mentioned in the original issue but I decided to not implement it together with "@diagnostic")

About your point here:

The behaviour should be:
0 Errors & Warnings -> Typing @ does not show the "Diagnostics" entry
At least one error or warning -> Typing @ does show the "Diagnostics" entry
Once I confirm the "Diagnostics" entry with enter/tab or manually type @diagnostics I should see a submenu with the three options:

X errors (Only visible when there are errors)
Y warnings (Only visible when there are warnings)
X errors & Y warnings (Only visible when there are errors & warnings)

We could probably skip the submenu step in case the user only has errors/warnings but let's not specialise this case for now and keep the behaviour consistent.

I will implement it in this way, no problem.

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@bennetbo Alright, I implemented it as the sub-menu now:

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Closes zed-industries#31351

# Diagnostics Mention in New Threads

## Overview

Adds the `@diagnostics` mention to the new Agent Panel threads so users
can inject current LSP diagnostics (errors by default) without switching
to a text thread. The diagnostics mention is fully integrated into ACP
mention parsing, the context picker, and the message-editor pipeline so
it round-trips cleanly and shows up in the standard `@` menu.

## Context

- **Request:** bring `/diagnostics` parity to the “New Thread” assistant
experience.
- **Scope:** diagnostics only; `/terminal` mention would be implemented
in a separate PR.
- **Docs:** updated Agent Panel docs + changelog.

## Implementation Details

1. **Mention plumbing**
- Added `MentionUri::Diagnostics` to `acp_thread`, including parsing
(`zed:///agent/diagnostics?include_warnings=true`) and icon/name
metadata.
- Tests ensure diagnostics links round-trip via Markdown mention
serialization.

2. **Context picker / completion**
- New `ContextPickerMode::Diagnostics` exposes an `@diagnostics` entry
in the mention menu.
- Completions turn `@diagnostics` into a fully fledged mention, reusing
the existing confirmation pipeline.

3. **Message editor + thread serialization**
- Resolving the mention calls the existing diagnostics collector from
`assistant_slash_commands`, embedding the tool output inline with other
context blocks (`<diagnostics>…</diagnostics>`).
- Thread-link handling ignores diagnostics backlinks so clicking them
doesn’t try to reopen nonexistent resources.
   

# How it looks
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/>

Release Notes:

- Allow mentioning diagnostics in the agent panel via `@diagnostics`

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Co-authored-by: Bennet Bo Fenner <bennet@zed.dev>
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