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Overview
ZCode is a free cross-platform Agentic Development Environment (ADE) from zhipu-ai, purpose-built for glm-5-2 long-horizon coding tasks.
Features
- Agent-first workflow: plan → edit → review → iterate across files, terminal, browser, Git
- BYOK — third-party models via Anthropic/OpenAI-compatible APIs (OpenRouter, Moonshot Kimi)
- Remote agent control via WeChat, Feishu, Telegram
- GLM Coding Plan subscriptions: Light 144/mo
Competitive Position
Direct competitor to cursor, Claude Code, github-copilot, Google Antigravity in ~$10B AI coding market. Free download; model costs via subscription or BYOK.