Jindo Box

Jindo Box opens your own cloud server from Iser Labs in VS Code. Your box runs Claude Code, and your work stays on the box.

You need a Jindo Box account from Iser Labs. The extension works on a Mac for now.

Getting started

1. Install Jindo Box. VS Code installs Microsoft's Remote - SSH extension with it.
2. Click Sign in and use the email your invitation went to. Your browser opens to sign in.
3. When Jindo Box says your box is ready, click Open my box. Your box opens in a new window.
4. The first time, the Jindo Box view says "Claude is signed out on your box." Click Open Claude and sign in to Claude in its panel. The line and the button show only while Claude on your box is signed out.

You never type a command, make an SSH key or open a terminal. Jindo Box sets up the connection for you and checks it in the background, but a window opens only when you click Open my box.

Commands

All commands are in the Jindo Box view in the activity bar and in the Command Palette:

• Jindo Box: Sign in
• Jindo Box: Start sign-in again (when the sign-in page was closed before you finished)
• Jindo Box: Open my box
• Jindo Box: Open Claude (opens Claude's panel on your box, or brings it forward; it never closes it)
• Jindo Box: Check my box
• Jindo Box: Sign out
• Jindo Box: Show log

What it changes on your Mac

• It installs a small helper program in the .jindo-box folder in your home folder. The helper keeps your box's key and certificate there, and your sign-in in your login Keychain.
• It adds one section for your box to your SSH config file, between lines that start with "# >>> Jindo Box" and "# <<< Jindo Box". The rest of the file stays as it was.
• It sets Remote - SSH's settings: treat your box as Linux, allow 60 seconds to connect unless you've set your own connect timeout, and add the Claude extension to the extensions Remote - SSH installs. That last setting applies to every SSH host you connect to from VS Code, not only your box, so the Claude extension is installed on those hosts too.
• It hides the "lost+found" folder in the Explorer (it adds **/lost+found to your Files: Exclude setting, unless you've set that pattern yourself). Your box's Workspace folder is its own disk, and that folder belongs to the disk.

Signing out

Jindo Box: Sign out signs this Mac out of Jindo Box and ends any open connection to your box: a box window goes back to an empty window. Your box keeps running, and Claude on it keeps its own sign-in to your Claude account: that's a separate sign-in, which you change in Claude's own panel.

Privacy

Jindo Box sends no telemetry. Its log (Jindo Box: Show log) records only what happened and the result, never your box's name, your email or any key. Iser Labs never sees your Claude sign-in: it happens on your box.

Help

If something keeps going wrong, contact Iser Labs at hello@iserlabs.com.