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Positron, a next-generation data science IDE

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Dominant language: TypeScript
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Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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[Assistant/MCP] Transparently re-initialize Streamable HTTP session on '404 Not Found: Session not found' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

posit-dev/positron#16145 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Python CI: pyright 1.1.308 is not compatible with django-stubs 6.1.1 Open

ci-cd lang: python

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 84/100

posit-dev/positron#16142 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Workbench: Bundle File Navigator extension Open

area: workbench

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

posit-dev/positron#16139 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Assistant: Export as HTML makes an HTML file without any visible contents Open

area: assistant

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16138 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
ggsql: View result of SQL query in data explorer Open

area: connections area: ggsql

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

posit-dev/positron#16137 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Environment setup stuck at "extension not available" after trusting workspace Open

area: environment area: onboarding area: welcome theme: runtime startup

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16136 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Assistant: Streaming responses dramatically slower than same models in terminal Open

area: assistant performance support

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

posit-dev/positron#16135 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Assistant: Can't see a diff of changes Assistant made to the files Open

area: assistant

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

posit-dev/positron#16134 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Closing a notebook whose kernel is paused at a breakpoint never exits the kernel (shutdown times out) Open

area: kernels area: notebooks-jupyter area: runtimes bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

posit-dev/positron#16133 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Server/Windows: Can't copy text from Terminal in programs that capture the mouse Open

area: workbench os-windows support

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

posit-dev/positron#16131 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
New untitled notebook binds to the just-closed notebook's exiting session and never starts a kernel Open

area: kernels area: notebooks-jupyter area: runtimes bug theme: runtime startup

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

posit-dev/positron#16129 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Parameter hints popup stays visible until the running R code finishes Open

area: kernels bug lang: r support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

posit-dev/positron#16121 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
AI Providers pane doesn't display the Connect gateway provider correctly Open

area: assistant area: authentication bug theme: ai providers

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

posit-dev/positron#16120 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Copilot models are missing from the model picker on first load Open

area: assistant area: authentication bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

posit-dev/positron#16119 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Bundled ipykernel discards pixi [activation.env] PYTHONPATH due to collision Open

area: kallichore bug lang: python

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16118 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Python: performance degrades after training large randomforest model Open

area: variables bug lang: python performance support

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

posit-dev/positron#16113 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Block-level HTML tags in notebook markdown cells render incorrectly Open

area: notebooks-jupyter bug theme: new notebook frontend

posit-dev/positron#16111 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Feature Request: Visualize Scema info from Data Connections Open

area: catalog explorer area: connections enhancement support

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

posit-dev/positron#16110 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Data Connections: rewriting an ODBC config file silently kills open connections while the pane still shows them connected Open

area: catalog explorer area: connections

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

posit-dev/positron#16104 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Opening an R script with many nested parentheses creates an infinite loop of "R session crashed" Open

area: kernels bug lang: r support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16101 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Data Connections ODBC Data Driver Does Not Support `Authentication` Open

area: connections enhancement support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

posit-dev/positron#16100 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2026
`profvis()` on a function with `browser()` loaded with `devtools::load_all()` should go to the source file Open

area: debugger bug lang: r support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

posit-dev/positron#16099 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Data Explorer Generates Invalid SQL for Sybase ASE ODBC Connections Open

area: connections bug support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16096 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
view scrolls while debugging a Jupyter notebook Open

info needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16095 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Packages pane flags current packages when older copies exist in another library Open

area: environment bug lang: r support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

posit-dev/positron#16093 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Integrate Standalone’s AI Provider Configuration Overlay into Positron Open

area: assistant

posit-dev/positron#16092 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Assistant: Queues code behind a busy console with no timeout or feedback Open

area: assistant area: console area: runtimes enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16090 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Assistant: Pending console executions can't be stopped Open

area: assistant area: console area: runtimes bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

posit-dev/positron#16089 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Codex extension (openai.chatgpt) reports outdated release as current Open

area: extensions bug support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

posit-dev/positron#16086 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Add API to allow extensions to open editors in a modal Open

area: assistant

posit-dev/positron#16082 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2026
As per the title, I want to provide the feedback that it's not helpful to add the column names when copying multiple cells from the data grid. It would be nice to have a setting to include the column names or not. Open

area: data explorer enhancement support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

posit-dev/positron#16081 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Show a gray "not started" status in RuntimeStatusIcon for sessionless preview notebooks Open

area: console area: interpreter area: notebooks-jupyter area: notebooks-quarto area: ui enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

posit-dev/positron#16078 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
"Go to definition" shouldn't consider comments Open

area: kernels enhancement lang: r support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

posit-dev/positron#16075 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Mildly annoying; closing a diff closes the file Open

info needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16074 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Visual Editor does not copy selected text via Cmd+C or context menu Open

area: quarto bug support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

posit-dev/positron#16070 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
GitHub Copilot OAuth sign-in fails in Positron 2026.09.1 build 2 on macOS arm64; VS Code succeeds, including with a clean Positron profile Open

area: assistant area: authentication bug support

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

posit-dev/positron#16069 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Add "Open with default application" to file explorer context menu Open

area: core area: ui enhancement support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

posit-dev/positron#16066 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Assistant: Support defaultThinkingEffort in custom model definitions (providers.json) Open

area: assistant

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

posit-dev/positron#16065 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Exporting an R notebook to Quarto results in all its cells being treated as Python Open

area: notebooks-jupyter area: quarto

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

posit-dev/positron#16060 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
DuckDB parallel queries lose ~4–6x throughput in RStudio/Positron consoles, but not in Rgui/Rscript on the same machine Open

info needed lang: r

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

posit-dev/positron#16055 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Windows + conda: interpreter discovery takes minutes and one conda env is not discovered Open

area: runtimes info needed lang: python theme: runtime startup

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

posit-dev/positron#16054 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Commands such as open docs and execute code in console don't work when viewing a git diff of an R file Open

area: editor area: kernels enhancement support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

posit-dev/positron#16052 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2026
AI: update provider notices text in product and docs Open

area: assistant documentation

posit-dev/positron#16051 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Interpreter version sort is nondeterministic for prerelease versions, and the New Folder Flow doesn't version-sort at all Open

area: environment area: interpreter

posit-dev/positron#16048 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Data Explorer struggles with TSV that has missing cells Open

area: data explorer area: duckdb bug support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

posit-dev/positron#16047 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Assistant can't (or won't) use bundled Positron docs Open

area: assistant

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

posit-dev/positron#16040 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Use bundled ipykernel for reticulate Python sessions Open

area: reticulate enhancement lang: python support

posit-dev/positron#16036 · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Headless LM service: support custom providers Open

area: assistant

posit-dev/positron#16029 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Configurable package check arguments for Check R Package (`devtools::check()`) Open

enhancement lang: r support

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

posit-dev/positron#16028 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Bundle built-in extensions to reduce installed file count Open

area: builds performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

posit-dev/positron#16025 · Opened Sep 9, 2026

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