microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release

Enable usage with the ChatGPT app for macOS

Open
#11,240 2 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

@chrmarti is already working on this.

Since Oct 1, 2025.

containers under-discussion
Dominant language
Dockerfile
Stars
4.2k
Forks
469
Avg merge
1d 1h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Description

When running a regular VS Code instance, I can hit the Tab key in the ChatGPT app to allow it to access VS Code's open tabs and attach the focused one to my chat context. It's an awesome feature of that app and I use it all the time to supercharge my dev workflow.

When running in a dev container though, the connection between the two apps fails and no reason why is given. I'm not sure if this is their fault or yours, but I'm assuming it's yours since a regular VS Code instance works fine.

If you guys could look into this and tell me why the failure occurs, I'd really appreciate it! Even better, patch the extension so that everything works the way the ChatGPT devs intended (if that's possible).

If you need any further diagnostic info about my system, please don't hesitate to ask. But as a bare minimum:

OS: macOS Sequoia 15.6.1.
VS Code version: 1.104.2.
ChatGPT app version: 1.2025.260 (1758588131)

MTIA for any replies! 😁

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.