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.

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

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

Isn't that because of the context window size?