Introducing Pulsar ACP Agent

Atom was my favorite editor until GitHub sunset it. Luckily, the project lives on as Pulsar. One thing it’s missing, though, is support for agentic workflows, so I figured I’d add it myself.

Agent Client Protocol

Because of my work at Microsoft, I’m using/trying different editors/IDEs. Zed is one I was looking at recently and thus found out about ACP - which standardizes communication between code editors/IDEs and coding agents.

Sidenote: the folks who created Atom are now working on Zed and ACP. Rather awesome.

For our purposes, ACP basically allows you to easily integrate agents (that support ACP) into anywhere, I mean into Pulsar.

Pulsar ACP Agent

So, with the help of friendly agents, I’ve created a new Pulsar plugin, Pulsar ACP Agent, that does exactly that.

Pulsar ACP Agent running an ACP-compatible coding agent inside Pulsar.

Highlights:

• Run ACP-compatible coding agents
  such as GitHub Copilot CLI, Mistral Vibe, and Gemini CLI from a Pulsar dock panel.
• Attach files, selections, and images to prompts.
• Review permission prompts, tool output, diffs, plans, and session history inline.
• Configure and switch between multiple agents.

I’ve been dogfooding it for a few weeks while creating it, so I hope you’ll give it a chance and let me know what you think.

Install it from within Pulsar (Settings → Install, search for pulsar-acp-agent) or from the package page. The code lives on GitHub.

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