admin-controls.md

title: Admin Controls - Zed Business description: Configure AI, collaboration, and data sharing settings for your entire Zed Business organization.

Admin Controls

Owners and admins can configure settings that apply to every member of the organization.

These controls apply to Zed's server-side features, meaning anything that routes through Zed's infrastructure. They don't cover bring-your-own-key (BYOK) configurations, external agents, or third-party extensions, since those work independently of Zed's servers.

Accessing admin controls

Admin controls are available to owners and admins from the organization dashboard at dashboard.zed.dev.

Collaboration

Administrators can disable Zed's real-time collaboration features for the entire organization. This covers the features in the Collaboration Panel: Channels, shared projects, and voice chat.

When collaboration is disabled, members won't see collaboration features in their Zed client.

Hosted AI models

Administrators can control which of Zed's hosted AI models are available to members:

  • Disable all Zed-hosted models entirely, so members must use their own API keys via Providers if they want AI features
  • Enable or disable access by model provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.)

This applies to Zed's hosted model service only. Members who bring their own API keys are not affected.

Edit Predictions

Administrators can disable Edit Predictions for all members of the organization.

Data sharing

By default, data sharing with Zed for AI improvement is opt-in for individual users not on a Business plan. Members choose individually whether to share edit prediction training data or AI feedback via ratings.

Administrators can enforce a no-sharing policy org-wide; members cannot opt into either form of data sharing.