# How to use mini-me from an editor (ACP)

This guide shows how to host `mm` inside an editor that speaks the Agent Client Protocol, such as Zed. It assumes `mm` is built and installed on your `PATH` (`./install.sh` copies it to `/usr/local/bin`), and that your model server is running.

## Steps

1. Register `mm` as an agent server in the editor, with the `-acp` flag. In Zed, add to `settings.json`:

   ```json
   {
     "agent_servers": {
       "mini-me": {
         "type": "custom",
         "command": "mm",
         "args": ["-acp"],
         "env": { "AGENT_CONFIG": "/absolute/path/to/agent.yaml" }
       }
     }
   }
   ```

2. Point `AGENT_CONFIG` at an absolute path. The editor launches `mm` with the project's directory as working directory, so a relative `./agent.yaml` would not be found. In ACP mode a relative `skillsDir` in that file is resolved next to the file, not next to the editor's working directory.

3. Open the agent panel and start a conversation. Each `bash`, `read_file`, `write_file` and `edit_file` call appears as a tool call; the editor asks you to allow it before it runs. `read_skill` runs without a dialog.

4. Read the logs when something looks wrong. In ACP mode nothing human-readable goes to stdout: the banner, the warnings and a `[acp] …` trail go to stderr, which Zed shows under `dev: open acp logs`.

## Variants

- **Allow a tool for the whole session.** Pick "Allow bash for this session" in the permission dialog; the choice is remembered per tool until the session ends.
- **Cancel a running turn.** Use the editor's stop key (Escape in Zed). The agent answers the prompt with stop reason `cancelled` and keeps the commands that already ran in the history. There is no `/abort` over ACP.
- **Compress or restart the conversation.** Send `/compact` or `/new`; editors that list the agent's commands offer both in the slash-command menu. See the [slash commands reference](../reference/slash-commands.md#acp-mode).
- **Attach a file with `@`.** The editor's picker sends a `resource_link`, passed to the model as `[attached file: <path>]`; a path typed by hand as `@path` is understood the same way (see [`@path`](attach-a-file.md)). The model reads the file with its tools.
- **Run from a terminal to debug the protocol.** `mm -acp` reads JSON-RPC on stdin and writes it on stdout, one message per line.

## See also

- The exact methods and capabilities exposed: [ACP reference](../reference/acp.md)
- Why the terminal and the editor share one loop: [architecture](../explanation/architecture.md)