Integrating DeepSeek-Coder with Zed IDE - Assistance Needed

[erik-balfe]

Hello Zed community,

I'm trying to integrate the DeepSeek Coder language model into Zed IDE as an AI assistant, but I'm encountering some issues. I'd appreciate any help or guidance from those who might have experience with this integration.

Current setup:
I've added the following configuration to my settings:

"assistant": {
  "defaultopenaimodel": "deepseek-coder",
  "version": "1",
  "provider": {
    "name": "deepseek",
    "type": "openai",
    "defaultmodel": "deepseek-coder",
    "apiurl": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1"
  }
}

Issue:
Despite DeepSeek stating that their API is compatible with OpenAI's, I haven't been able to get it working. I've tried both with and without the "v1" in the `apiurl, but there's no progress. The assistant panel still shows only GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models in the dropdown menu.

Questions:

1. Has anyone successfully integrated DeepSeek-coder or any other openai compatible ones with Zed IDE?
2. Are there any specific steps or additional configuration needed for this integration?
3. Is there a way to debug why the another model isn't appearing in the assistant panel?

Any insights, suggestions, or documentation links would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!

Environment details:

• Zed IDE version: 0.143.6
• Operating System: Fedora 40

[clyer]

https://zed.dev/releases/stable/0.142.4

"provider": {
      "name": "openai",
      "type": "openai",
      "default_model": {
        "custom": {
          "name": "deepseek-coder",
          "max_tokens": 32000
        }
      },
      "available_models": [
        {
          "custom": {
            "name": "deepseek-chat",
            "max_tokens": 32000
          }
        },
        {
          "custom": {
            "name": "deepseek-coder",
            "max_tokens": 32000
          }
        }
      ],
      "api_url": "https://api.deepseek.com/v1"
    }

[erik-balfe]

Also max_tokens should be set to 128000 as both models support this max context window.

[zhaozhao]

For newer zed version 0.149.5, this setting works for me:

  {
    "language_models": {
      "openai": {
        "version": "1",
        "available_models": [
          {
            "name": "deepseek-coder",
            "max_tokens": 128000
          },
          {
            "name": "deepseek-chat",
            "max_tokens": 128000
          }
        ],
        "api_url": "https://api.deepseek.com/beta"
      }
    },
    "assistant": {
      "default_model": {
        "provider": "openai",
        "model": "deepseek-chat"
      },
      "version": "2"
    }
  }

Do not forget to set api_key of deepseek in zed assistant configure page.

[zhaozhao]

you may want to try silliconflow as deepseek provider which offers 20 million tokens for free
give it a try: https://cloud.siliconflow.cn/i/biWwZgHI

[dreamerlzl]

Also remember to update your OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable, haha

[d2luu]

does anyone know how to config temperature of deepseek-coder in zed?

[erik-balfe]

I couldnt find any mentions of temperature, so I suppose its currently not implemented to adjust that setting for LMs. But I've never faced any problems with temperature with deepseek. You may try to fix your problem with setting custom system prompt as a temporary solution.