Zed module

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Module Scorecard

Presentation & Onboarding	IDE Integration	Credential Hygiene	Restricted-Environment Readiness	Engineering Quality	Overall
12 / 17	19 / 19	20 / 20	2 / 2 (18 N/A)	7 / 10	88 / 100

Drilldown

Presentation & Onboarding — 12 / 17

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Configuration-mode examples	12	12	README shows distinct modes: basic launch, custom folder, display name/order, custom agent name, and declarative Zed settings/MCP servers via settings (jsonencode). Covers major configuration surfaces with sensible defaults.
Visual preview	5	0	No image, GIF, or video embedded in the README — only an icon reference in frontmatter.

Credential Hygiene — 20 / 20

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Secrets marked sensitive	16	16	Module has no secret-bearing inputs; no inline keys or tokens appear in any README example.
Non-hardcoded auth path	4	4	README documents using Coder CLI (coder config-ssh) or Coder Desktop for connection, avoiding any raw key/token paste into the template.

Restricted-Environment Readiness — 2 / 2 (18 pts N/A)

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Mirrorable artifact source	5	N/A	Module installs nothing — Zed is assumed already present on the client; it only constructs a zed://ssh/... URL. No download URL variable exists.
Bring-your-own binary	10	N/A	No install step exists to disable; there is nothing to skip.
Egress transparency	3	N/A	No network calls made by the module itself (settings script only reads/writes local files).
Runs without sudo	2	2	coder_script.zed_settings runs as plain bash, uses mkdir, jq, mv — no sudo invoked anywhere in the script.

Engineering Quality — 7 / 10

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Input quality	6	3	All variables have descriptions and reasonable defaults ("", null, "zed"), but no validation blocks anywhere (e.g., no JSON-validity check on settings).
Test coverage	4	4	Both zed.tftest.hcl (URL construction logic for folder/agent_name/default) and main.test.ts (end-to-end settings write/merge behavior in a real container) are present and meaningful.

IDE Integration — 19 / 19 (6 pts N/A)

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Dashboard entry point	7	7	coder_app.zed resource with external = true and a zed://ssh/... deep link; fully documented as the primary module output.
Managed configuration	6	6	settings variable documents declarative Zed settings and MCP (context_servers) configuration with a worked example.
Configurable folder or workdir	6	6	folder variable documented with a dedicated "Open in a specific directory" example, appended to the launch URL.
Pre-installed extensions (web IDEs only)	6	N/A	Zed is a native desktop app launched via protocol handler, not a web IDE — criterion does not apply by construction.

Overall — 88 / 100

Raw 58 / 66 → round(58 / 66 × 100) = 88

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Scored against SCORECARD.md on 2026-11-09 with solstice-1.