I'm building an agent framework in golang and it is extremely light weight. Startup time is under 1/2 second, and RAM usage is really low. I have a 12 year old laptop and it happily runs without slowing down.

There's no reason what is essentially a string concat engine should be slow on any hardware, including old hardware.

I've been trying to migrate over the zed and think they're Agent Client Protocol[1] is pretty neat, I wonder how much memory pressure Claude Code exerts if it is going through that mechanism instead

1: https://zed.dev/acp

Yes. Just this fact is going to make a lot of people try it out.

Are you sure you don't have an LSP plugin or something running?

The memory footprint is great, it allows finally running these coding agents in extra small instances -- say x1 on shellbox.dev

Isn't that because of the context window size?