Improve Zed agent thread history to update across all open windows#47803
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Previously, each AgentPanel created its own ThreadStore instance, so thread history wouldn't sync between windows. Users had to close and reopen windows to see threads created in other windows. Now ThreadStore is initialized once as a global and shared across all windows. When any window saves a thread, ThreadStore::reload() calls cx.notify(), which notifies all NativeAgentSessionList observers, causing all windows' history views to refresh. Note: This only works for the native Zed agent. Third-party agents (Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, etc.) manage their own thread storage externally via ACP.
ThreadStore globally across all windows
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Previously, each Agent panel created its own
ThreadStoreinstance, so thread history updates wouldn't sync between open windows. Users had to close and reopen windows to see threads created in other windows.Now
ThreadStoreis initialized once as a global and shared across all windows. When any window saves a thread, ThreadStore::reload() calls cx.notify(), which notifies all NativeAgentSessionList observers, causing all windows' history views to refresh.Note: This only works for the native Zed agent. It also is only improving the history view (thread titles)—this PR does not sync edits between multiple windows when the same thread is open in each.
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