open-remote-ssh
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
May 2, 2026first mention
Oct 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension:”
“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.”
Linux at home, macOS at workon “VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)”
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“there are some well-maintained open source alternatives”
“jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly.”
“for ssh Open Remote works great with it too”
Caveats and dissent
“I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
Also written as Open Remote - SSH. Data: open-remote-ssh.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“I recommend moving to VSCodium and using this extension:”
“I have been using VSCodium with 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.”
“I very much dislike this extension because it uses a built-in ssh client”
“there are some well-maintained open source alternatives”
“jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly.”
“for ssh Open Remote works great with it too”