vscode.md

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title: Visual Studio Code
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Securing Visual Studio Code with Lima

Lima helps securing the development environment by running it inside a VM. Notably, this prevents AI agents, such as GitHub Copilot in VS Code, from directly executing untrusted commands on the host.

1. Start a Lima instance. If you use GitHub Copilot, consider disabling mounts by passing the --mount-none flag to prevent Copilot from accessing host files:

limactl start --mount-none

2. Add the following line to ~/.ssh/config:

Include ~/.lima/*/ssh.config

3. Open the Remote Explorer in the Visual Studio Code sidebar and select lima-<INSTANCE> from the SSH remote list.

{{% alert title="Hint" color=success %}} If the Remote Explorer is missing in the sidebar, install the following extensions:

• Remote Explorer

• Remote - SSH

See also the documentation of Visual Studio Code for further troubleshooting. {{% /alert %}}

4. Set up the workspace by clicking Clone Git Repository... on the Welcome screen, or copy the project directory with limactl cp:

limactl cp -r DIR default:~/