{"slug": "open-remote-ssh", "name": "open-remote-ssh", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 5, "warners": 1, "score": 2.866, "rising": 2.67, "first": "2026-05-02", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension:", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension:", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh", "official_url": "https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["open-remote-ssh", "Open Remote - SSH"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 804851249, "item_id": 50303203, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303203", "by": "DanielHB", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension:", "excerpt": "I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension: https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh and run vscode-server inside a VM or container", "context": "", "use_case": "remote SSH in VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions"}, {"id": 797239809, "item_id": 49827488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827488", "by": "DanielHB", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I run the editor (and its extensions), my projects and any agent harnesses from inside a container and use that extension to get an editor.", "excerpt": "I have been using VSCodium (chromium-like version of VSCode) with this extension: https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh I run the editor (and its extensions), my projects and any agent harnesses from inside a container and use that extension to get an editor. This is mostly to protect my credentials and data from malicious extensions/dependencies/rogue-agents, bu it also lets me quickly port my dev environment ", "context": "Linux at home, macOS at work", "use_case": "remote SSH for VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 797187904, "item_id": 49824244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824244", "by": "skissane", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there are some well-maintained open source alternatives", "excerpt": "I don't find it that opaque. Even without trying to deobfuscate the obfuscated source code which Microsoft ships (I haven't tried but it wouldn't be hard) a lot of details about how it works become obvious just by reading its logs. Of course, it is a pity Microsoft doesn't open source it. But there are some well-maintained open source alternatives, e.g. https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh and https://github.c", "context": "", "use_case": "Remote SSH extension", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 797174016, "item_id": 49823376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823376", "by": "zenapollo", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly.", "excerpt": "Not sure what you consider \"no good\" alternatives. jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly. It's the first or second search hit in the extension manager for \"ssh\". It's a fork of Microsoft's previous extension before the proprietarized it. 0: https://open-vsx.org/extension/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh", "context": "", "use_case": "Remote SSH editing in VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 767868725, "item_id": 47991795, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991795", "by": "nisten", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for ssh Open Remote works great with it too", "excerpt": "just use vscodium (opensource vscode without microsoft's spyware) stop giving an increasingly incompetent org more control over your data ppl. https://vscodium.com/ Claude amp, cline, kilo etc plugins all work great with it, for ssh Open Remote works great with it too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797196832, "item_id": 49824802, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824802", "by": "kayson", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client", "excerpt": "I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client that is far from feature complete and does a lot of reinventing the wheel. Microsoft's extension uses the system ssh binary, as does https://open-vsx.org/extension/aergic/zygos-vscodium which I much prefer. After discovering the latter, I uninstalled VSCode and have fully moved to VSCodium.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}]}], "who": [{"by": "DanielHB", "context": "Linux at home, macOS at work", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827488", "date": "2026-09-24"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["remote ssh in vscodium", "remote ssh development in vscodium", "remote ssh for vscodium", "remote ssh extension", "remote ssh editing in vscodium"], "compared": [{"slug": "vscodium", "name": "VSCodium", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "visual-studio-code", "name": "Visual Studio Code", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555", "title": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50302334", "title": "Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094994", "title": "OpenCode 2.0", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883", "title": "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 1}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804851249, "item_id": 50303203, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303203", "by": "DanielHB", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension:", "excerpt": "I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension: https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh and run vscode-server inside a VM or container", "context": "", "use_case": "remote SSH in VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions"}, {"id": 801623041, "item_id": 50101440, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101440", "by": "DanielHB", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have been using VSCodium with https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh", "excerpt": "I am quite keen on this as well, I have been trying to move all my active development to happen inside a container, including the harnesses. This, of course, makes it very hard to run GUI harnesses. I prefer CLI, but it would be neat to be able to better isolate gui-based harnesses as well. I have been using VSCodium with https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh so (most of) the IDE also runs inside the container.", "context": "", "use_case": "remote SSH development in VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 797239809, "item_id": 49827488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827488", "by": "DanielHB", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I run the editor (and its extensions), my projects and any agent harnesses from inside a container and use that extension to get an editor.", "excerpt": "I have been using VSCodium (chromium-like version of VSCode) with this extension: https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh I run the editor (and its extensions), my projects and any agent harnesses from inside a container and use that extension to get an editor. This is mostly to protect my credentials and data from malicious extensions/dependencies/rogue-agents, bu it also lets me quickly port my dev environment ", "context": "Linux at home, macOS at work", "use_case": "remote SSH for VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 797196832, "item_id": 49824802, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824802", "by": "kayson", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client", "excerpt": "I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client that is far from feature complete and does a lot of reinventing the wheel. Microsoft's extension uses the system ssh binary, as does https://open-vsx.org/extension/aergic/zygos-vscodium which I much prefer. After discovering the latter, I uninstalled VSCode and have fully moved to VSCodium.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 797187904, "item_id": 49824244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824244", "by": "skissane", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there are some well-maintained open source alternatives", "excerpt": "I don't find it that opaque. Even without trying to deobfuscate the obfuscated source code which Microsoft ships (I haven't tried but it wouldn't be hard) a lot of details about how it works become obvious just by reading its logs. Of course, it is a pity Microsoft doesn't open source it. But there are some well-maintained open source alternatives, e.g. https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh and https://github.c", "context": "", "use_case": "Remote SSH extension", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 797174016, "item_id": 49823376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823376", "by": "zenapollo", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly.", "excerpt": "Not sure what you consider \"no good\" alternatives. jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly. It's the first or second search hit in the extension manager for \"ssh\". It's a fork of Microsoft's previous extension before the proprietarized it. 0: https://open-vsx.org/extension/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh", "context": "", "use_case": "Remote SSH editing in VSCodium", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 767868725, "item_id": 47991795, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991795", "by": "nisten", "date": "2026-05-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for ssh Open Remote works great with it too", "excerpt": "just use vscodium (opensource vscode without microsoft's spyware) stop giving an increasingly incompetent org more control over your data ppl. https://vscodium.com/ Claude amp, cline, kilo etc plugins all work great with it, for ssh Open Remote works great with it too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"}]}