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Practical write-ups on running GitHub Codespaces from AI-first editors. Each one is checked against the extension's code or official documentation.
Why GitHub Codespaces is hard outside VS Code
Why connecting to GitHub Codespaces from Cursor, Google Antigravity, Windsurf and other VS Code forks takes extra work, and what actually goes wrong.
6 min readGitHub Codespaces in Google Antigravity: a step-by-step setup
Connect Google Antigravity to GitHub Codespaces over SSH with the GitHub CLI and Antigravity Codespaces Pro: scopes, Remote-SSH and troubleshooting.
6 min readGitHub Codespaces in Cursor: a step-by-step setup
Connect Cursor to GitHub Codespaces over SSH with the GitHub CLI and Antigravity Codespaces Pro: scopes, Remote-SSH and troubleshooting.
5 min readKeeping long AI agent sessions alive on a codespace
Why AI coding agents lose their connection to a GitHub codespace and how SSH keepalive and codespace idle timeouts fix it.
7 min readCodespaces quotas explained: core-hours and GB-month
How GitHub Codespaces free quotas work on Free and Pro, why a 4-core machine uses quota twice as fast, and how storage is counted.
5 min readGitHub Codespaces in Windsurf (now Devin Desktop): what works and what to avoid
Use GitHub Codespaces from Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) with its built-in SSH, the GitHub CLI and Antigravity Codespaces Pro, and why you should not install another Remote-SSH extension.
6 min readRemote-SSH in VS Code forks, compared
Which Remote-SSH extension Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Kiro and Google Antigravity use, where each comes from, and why Microsoft's extension is limited to VS Code.