Container Use for Locally Sandboxed, Background Agents in Zed

The article discusses using containers for locally sandboxed, background AI coding agents in the Zed editor. It introduces Container Use, an open-source project that orchestrates containers for isolation and Git Worktrees for parallel git histories. The article explains how to set up Container Use with Zed, emphasizing the use of custom profiles in Zed's Agent Panel to manage foreground and background agents effectively. It also suggests using the Zed Rules Library to customize rules for background tasks.