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Spinbox opens workspaces through a remote resolver of its own, so a connection's failures are ours to see and fix #24

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Today a workspace opens through Microsoft's Remote-SSH, via ssh config and spin as ProxyCommand. Its connection errors are opaque, and a refusal is seen only in logs. The end-to-end experience is not ours to see or fix.

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  • A separate fork, a dependency of this extension: spin-stack/open-remote-ssh, the extension spin-stack.spinbox-remote (Spinbox Remote), MIT with attribution. It keeps only what opening a Spinbox workspace uses: no ssh-remote resolver, ~/.ssh/config, server download, tmux or clipboard bridge.
  • Microsoft VS Code stable only (dd3b67d, open-remote-ssh#5): no VSCodium, no Open VSX. The resolver uses the proposed resolvers API, which the Marketplace refuses, so it is a signed VSIX on the GitHub release that spin vscode install installs, enabled by argv.json enable-proposed-api. Without it, Remote-SSH stays the fallback, and this extension says once how to enable it.

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The harness opens, reconnects and fails a workspace (stopped, refused key, moved host) on a real stack and asserts what the person sees.

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  1. aledbf commented on Nov 12, 2026

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    From spin#1119: reusing an open window or connection before opening another belongs here - the dashboard hands vscode:// to the OS and learns nothing back, so it cannot know a window is open.

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