Anysphere Dev Container (v1.0.5) bugs, missing features, and frustrations

Bug Reports
1

Lots of issues:

  1. No live logs when building containers
    a. With a container that takes a couple minutes to build, the logs just hang and don’t display anything
    b. I can’t know if there are build errors, or if layer caching is working, or anything
  2. Build postStartupCommand fails with no apparent error
    a. Container fails to build in Cursor, but is fine with VSCode and devcontainer/cli.
    b. postStartupCommand logs show that everything is going well, then suddenly cut off
[2025-06-03T18:28:38.001Z] Stop (160648 ms): Run in container: /bin/sh -c direnv exec /workspaces/backend python -m invoke backend.install
Package operations: 0 installs, 17 updates, 0 removals

  • Updating config (0.0.0 /workspaces/backend/python/libs/config/src -> 0.1.0 /workspaces/backend/python/libs/config)
  • 
	at _ (/Users/jasondamour/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.5/dist/main.js:2:581852)
	at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
	at async D.execCommand (/Users/jasondamour/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.5/dist/main.js:2:587408)
	at async V.startDevContainer (/Users/jasondamour/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.5/dist/main.js:2:609997)
	at async /Users/jasondamour/.cursor/extensions/anysphere.remote-containers-1.0.5/dist/main.js:2:602537
  1. Missing Clone in [Named] Volume feature from ms-vscode extension
    a. I relied on using volumes to clone git repos, now that functionality is gone…
  2. Unable to install ms-vscode.remote-containers via any means
    a. I uninstalled the vscode version of the plugin to resolve a warning, and now there is no way to reinstall it
    b. Cursor seems to be “monkey-patching” any attempt to install the vscode version, even when installing from local file
    c. My workflow is now completely broken.

I’m not a happy camper :frowning:

3

Hi @jasondamour, thank you for sharing these issues.

No live logs when building containers

Build postStartupCommand fails with no apparent error

Missing Clone in [Named] Volume feature from ms-vscode extension

We are working on adding in these features. The first two should ship in the next update, with the cloning in a (named) volume coming after.

Unable to install ms-vscode.remote-containers via any means

Could you try searching for @id:ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers in the Marketplace search box? We do require a specific version, which could cause it to be uninstalled if a later version is sideloaded in.

4

Hi @jasondamour, we released version 1.0.6 of the Anysphere Remote containers plugin which streams back the logs. That should hopefully help with issues 1. and 2.