Why isn’t Container Tools available in the extension marketplace
Ever since the last update, the Docker extension keeps disappearing. The only way to get it back is to uninstall and reinstall
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Same here, I have to reinstall Docker extension every time. I’m using the cursor-bin AUR package on Arch. Here are some logs that might be relevant:
2025-05-30 07:42:44.415 [error] Unable to resolve nonexistent file 'vscode-userdata:/home/theor/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/ms-azuretools.vscode-docker': Error: Unable to resolve nonexistent file 'vscode-userdata:/home/theor/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/ms-azuretools.vscode-docker'
at s6s.resolve (vscode-file://vscode-app/tmp/.mount_cursorFptVZt/usr/share/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:6635:62362)
at async CAo (vscode-file://vscode-app/tmp/.mount_cursorFptVZt/usr/share/cursor/resources/app/out/vs/workbench/workbench.desktop.main.js:479:212696) Unable to resolve nonexistent file 'vscode-userdata:/home/theor/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/ms-azuretools.vscode-docker'
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As far as I can tell, the Container Tools license doesn’t prevent it from being used outside VS Code (unlike the licenses that caused issues with the Pylance, C++, and C# extensions). Also, the required engines should support Cursor’s VS Code OSS version 1.96.2: vscode-containers/package.json at 675285f130567005a245cf919fdb9c7c33fc6788 · microsoft/vscode-containers · GitHub.
Hi all, we need to check compatibility for the new MS Containers extension before it will be visible in the marketplace. It is OSS so there shouldn’t be an issue there, but there might be some API incompatibilities that we first need to check.
It is quite strange, though, that the Docker extension gets uninstalled after you install it.
@Kyrunner – what platform are you running?
@theostargazer I We don’t officially support running the client on Arch, so would recommend reaching out to the maintainers of that cursor-bin package.
It doesn’t technically gets uninstalled, but it disappears from the activity bar and from the context menu, effectively rendering it non-existent. Removing the extension and installing it again fixes the problem. Not sure what triggers it, initially I thought it’s on every editor restart, but that’s not the case. I might try running the official app image to see if the issue is reproduced there.
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I run Ubuntu server and Debian server
It doesn’t get uninstalled it disappears
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Could you share a screenshot of where it is disappearing from?
Hi! I was able to reproduce this issue when upgrading to version 2.0.0 of ms-azuretools.vscode-docker. Microsoft changed this into an extension pack that points to ms-azuretools.vscode-containers, which was previously not visible in Cursor.
We have fixed this and ms-azuretools.vscode-containers should now show up in the Cursor extension marketplace. If you are already on version 2.0.0 of the Docker extension, please make sure to also install ms-azuretools.vscode-containers. The “Containers” tab should then be visible in the sidebar. New installs / upgrades should automatically get both extensions.
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Hi @patrickwasp – thanks for bringing this up. We just released version 1.0.5 of the Anysphere Remote Containers extension, which should fix this issue.
1.0.5 indeed helped; However, I’m recently facing the problem of connecting to the container:
Updating to newest version 10.0.7 doesn’t help 
Hi @maxw1489, could you share the logs from the latest version of the extension? They’re slightly more verbose which will help trace down the error. Thanks!