SSH Quick Connect
Fast SSH connections, host management, and automatic remote troubleshooting for Cursor and Visual Studio Code.
Version: 1.0.12 · Publisher: VantyxStudios · UI: English & Deutsch (follows your editor language)
Features
- SSH Manager sidebar — hosts with live status, 🔒/🔓 password indicator, latency, last error tooltip
- System check (all OK) — one-click dashboard: config, vault, ASKPASS, OpenSSH, connection test
- Host wizard — add a server in one dialog (alias, IP, user, port, password)
- Edit / delete hosts — update alias, IP, user, port, tags; remove from config + vault
- Host tags — group hosts (e.g. Production, Vantyx) as sidebar sections
- Auto OpenSSH — installs the OpenSSH client if missing (Windows/Linux)
- Auto password — secure storage in VS Code SecretStorage + SSH_ASKPASS
- ASKPASS setup check — vault, scripts, terminal env, per-host config
- Auto-repair — host key changed, pipe errors, remote install failures; optional silent reconnect
- Config validator — detect and auto-fix broken SSH config blocks
- Batch test favorites — test all favorite hosts at once
- SSH-Agent (Windows) — start agent and load default keys
- Speed test, SSH keys, port forwarding, team export/import, SFTP upload
Installation
Search SSH Quick Connect in Extensions, or install the latest .vsix:
Extensions → ... → Install from VSIX
Settings
{
"sshQuickConnect.defaultHost": "my-server",
"sshQuickConnect.autoInjectPassword": true,
"sshQuickConnect.autoInstallOpenSsh": true,
"sshQuickConnect.autoFixCriticalErrors": true,
"sshQuickConnect.autoReconnectSilently": false,
"sshQuickConnect.useWslSsh": "never"
}
useWslSsh: "never" is the default on Windows to avoid WSL password-auth issues.
Language / Sprache
The extension UI (menus, messages, sidebar) uses English or Deutsch automatically based on your Cursor/VS Code display language.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
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