Cannot connect to remote agent host
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Description
### Description
Connecting to a remote agent host fails with:
> 2026-09-11 17:40:45.054 [warning] [RemoteAgentHostProtocol] Request 1 failed: {"code":-32601,"message":"Method not found: initialize"}
2026-09-11 17:40:45.054 [warning] [RemoteAgentHost] Connection closed: ssh:mac-studio-tailscale
According to `Agents:Update Remote Agent Host Server` the agent host server is up-to-date.
### Issue Details
Item|Value
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Issue Category|Bug
Target|Agents Window
VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.138.0-insider (60ac69b364809ee6976d6dc3ed74cc7628f637da, 2026-09-11T07:31:23Z)
OS Version|Darwin arm64 25.6.0
System Info
Item|Value
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VS Code Version|Code - Insiders 1.138.0-insider (60ac69b364809ee6976d6dc3ed74cc7628f637da, 2026-09-11T07:31:23Z)
OS Version|Darwin arm64 25.6.0
CPUs|Apple M4 (10 x 2400)
GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x106b [Google Inc. (Apple)], DEVICE=0x0000 [ANGLE (Apple, ANGLE Metal Renderer: Apple M4, Version 26.6.2 (Build 25G83))], DRIVER_VENDOR=Apple, DRIVER_VERSION=26.6.2 *ACTIVE*
Machine model name: Mac
Machine model version: 16.12
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: enabled_on
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)|2, 2, 2
Memory (System)|32.00GB (0.72GB free)
Process Argv|--enable-proposed-api lszomoru.lszomoru-proposed-api-sample --enable-proposed-api donjayamanne.kusto --crash-reporter-id ef10dfea-3602-4c74-ba1a-109ce7da7825
Screen Reader|no
VM|0%
User Agent|Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code-Insiders/1.138.0-insider Chrome/148.0.7778.280 Electron/42.10.0 Safari/537.36
Installation pure|true
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