Zed Agent, API keys and 1Password

[xtrasmal]

Exporting keys or importing keys is horrible. Best is to use your good old password manager.
Below you can read a workflow I use.

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Running Zed using 1Password

1. Create an env file

touch ~/.config/zed/.env

2. Add the keys to the .env

OPENAI_API_KEY=op://api_keys/openai/api_key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=op://api_keys/anthropic/api_key

3. Run Zed
Usually you will run Zed like so: zed ..
But now you will have to pick out of the following flavours.

3a. Flavour 1

op run --env-file ~/.config/zed/.env -- zed .

3b. Flavour 2

alias zed="op run --env-file ~/.config/zed/.env -- /usr/local/bin/zed"

3c. Flavour 3

If you don't want to use a .env file, create a script in your $PATH(or nor).

touch ~/.config/zed/run_zed
chmod +x ~/.config/zed/run_zed

Add the code.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
OPENAI_API_KEY='op://api_keys/openai/api_key' \
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY='op://api_keys/anthropic/api_key' \
exec op run -- zed "$@"

Run it.
run_zed .