---
title: Snippets
description: "Snippets for Zed extensions."
---

# Snippets

Extensions may provide snippets for one or more languages.

Each file containing snippets can be specified in the `snippets` field of the `extensions.toml` file.

The referenced path must be relative to the `extension.toml`.

## Defining Snippets

A given extension may provide one or more snippets. Each snippet must be registered in the `extension.toml`.

Zed matches snippet files based on the lowercase name of the language (e.g. `rust.json` for Rust).
You can use `snippets.json` as a file name to define snippets that will be available regardless of the current buffer language.

For example, here is an extension that provides snippets for Rust and TypeScript:

```toml
snippets = ["./snippets/rust.json", "./snippets/typescript.json"]
```

For more information on how to create snippets, see the [Snippets documentation](../snippets.md).