[Feature Request] Support for GitHub Codespaces / Remote Development Environments

Google Antigravity
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Summary

It would be great if Antigravity could natively support connecting to GitHub Codespaces (and other remote development environments), similar to how VS Code handles remote connections via the bottom-left corner button.

Problem / Use Case

Many developers use GitHub Codespaces or other cloud-based development environments for their projects. Currently, Antigravity operates only on the local file system, which means users who develop in Codespaces cannot leverage Antigravity’s powerful agentic AI coding capabilities directly in their remote environments.

For example, I’m running OpenClaw (an open-source AI assistant) in a GitHub Codespace, but I have to use VS Code Desktop to connect to the Codespace and then use separate AI tools. It would be much more seamless if Antigravity itself could connect directly to the Codespace.

Proposed Solution

Add a Remote Development feature to Antigravity that allows users to:

  1. Connect to GitHub Codespaces directly from the Antigravity interface (e.g., a connection button in the bottom-left corner, similar to VS Code)
    1. Browse and edit remote files as if they were local
    1. Run terminal commands in the remote environment
    1. Use all AI agent capabilities (code generation, debugging, refactoring, etc.) on the remote codebase
      Since Antigravity is a fork of VS Code, the Remote Development extension architecture should be technically feasible to integrate.

Expected Benefits

  • Developers can use Antigravity’s AI capabilities in cloud development environments
    • Seamless workflow without switching between multiple tools
    • Better support for teams using Codespaces for collaborative development
    • Opens up the possibility of using Antigravity with other remote environments (SSH, WSL, Dev Containers, etc.)

Current Workaround

Currently, users have to:

  • Use VS Code Desktop to connect to Codespaces, then use other AI extensions
    • Or manually sync code via Git between local and remote environments
      Neither approach is ideal compared to native integration.
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Hi @schwein
Welcome to the Google AI Forum!!!

Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us, and we’ll be filing a feature request.

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Well I just exported github codespaces extension from vs code in the vsix format, and then installed that extension in the antigravity, and it is working totally fine, so you can do the same, because antigravity uses the same open vsx, so most of the extensions you can export and install
Hope this helps

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That helped a lot, thanks for sharing. I saw your reply just a few minutes after you posted it, tried it myself, and it worked perfectly for me too. Appreciate it, mate.

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Yeah I have tried this but it isn’t connecting to the codespace, it is showing the codespaces but not connecting with them.
is it working for you? if yes then how, cause it’s not working for me

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I request google to breing the support for github codespaces as soon as possible, remote codespaces are widely used for development so it will be very usefull.