Drive your VS Code Copilot Chat from your phone — view sessions, stream responses, send prompts, and approve tools remotely over an end-to-end-encrypted relay.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Drive your VS Code Copilot Chat from your phone. View your sessions, watch
responses stream live, send new prompts, and approve tool/terminal calls — all
remotely, over an end-to-end-encrypted relay. The relay never sees your
messages in plaintext.
Features
🔗 Pair your phone with a QR code (or short code).
📜 Mirror your real Copilot Chat sessions (read-only).
⚡ Stream model responses live to your phone.
✍️ Send prompts via the Language Model API (reliable) or, experimentally,
into the real Copilot panel.
✅ Approve/deny tool & terminal calls remotely.
🔔 Push notifications when a response finishes or input is needed.
managed (Language Model API) or realPanel (experimental).
vsrchat.mirrorRealSessions
true
Mirror real Copilot sessions read-only.
vsrchat.allowRemoteToolApproval
true
Allow approving tools from the phone.
vsrchat.allowRemoteAutoApprove
false
Allow toggling per-session auto-approve.
vsrchat.keepAwakeWhilePaired
false
Keep the machine awake while paired.
vsrchat.notifyOnResponse
true
Push when a response finishes.
Privacy & security
vsrchat is single-user and locked to your GitHub account. All messages are
encrypted on your PC and only decrypted on your paired phone (and vice versa).
The Cloud Run relay only forwards opaque ciphertext and stores nothing.