# Zed Guild: What We Built, What We Learned

DevFeed: [Zed Guild: What We Built, What We Learned](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/zed-guild-what-we-built-what-we-learned-13582.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://zed.dev/blog/zed-guild-retrospective>)

Author: Esther Trapadoux

Published: 2026-06-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Zed Industries - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zed-industries-blog.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [D](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/d.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>)

Tags: [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrospective.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>)

## AI overview

Zed reflects on its first 12-week Guild cohort, a contributor program in which participants triaged issues, fixed bugs, and shipped features alongside the team. The cohort ended with 33 active contributors merging 148 pull requests, and feitreim received the grand prize.

## Source excerpt

A retrospective on the Zed Guild - what we built with our community contributors, what we learned, and what comes next.