CodeForLess Remote
The CodeForLess Remote extension connects your editor to
CodeForLess sandbox workspaces with a single click.
Forked from coder/vscode-coder (MIT)
and rebranded for the CodeForLess platform.
Features
- One-click workspace access — open sandboxes from the CodeForLess
dashboard or the editor sidebar. Workspaces start automatically when opened.
- Multi-editor support — works with VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other
VS Code forks.
- Workspace sidebar — browse, search, and create workspaces. View agent
metadata and app statuses at a glance.
- CodeForLess Tasks — create, monitor, and manage AI agent tasks directly
from the sidebar with real-time log streaming.
- CodeForLess Chat — delegate development tasks to AI coding agents from
the sidebar.
- Multi-deployment support — connect to multiple CodeForLess deployments
and switch between them without losing credentials.
- Dev container support — open dev containers running inside workspaces.
- Secure authentication — session tokens stored in the OS keyring
(macOS/Windows), with optional OAuth 2.1 support.
- Air-gapped / restricted networks — no external dependencies beyond your
CodeForLess deployment.
- Automatic SSH tuning — applies recommended SSH settings for reliable
long-lived connections and recovers from sleep/wake.
[!NOTE]
The extension builds on VS Code-provided implementations of SSH. Make sure
you have the correct SSH extension installed for your editor
(ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh, anysphere.remote-ssh for Cursor, or
codeium.windsurf-remote-openssh for Windsurf).
Getting Started
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press
enter.
ext install Codeforless.cfl-remote
Alternatively, install the VSIX directly:
code --install-extension cfl-remote-1.14.5.vsix
All extension settings are under the coder.* namespace in the Settings UI
(internal IDs preserved from the upstream fork). Paths in settings accept ~
and ${userHome} from VS Code's
variables reference.
Deeplink
The CodeForLess dashboard's "Open in VS Code" button uses:
vscode://Codeforless.cfl-remote/open?...
