Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I am trying to use cursor glass on remote servers with dev containers. I get “Extension ‘Dev Containers’ is required to open the remote window. Do you want to install the extension?” but after reloading I still get the same e…

[image] Mohit: The team is actively building out remote support in Glass, starting with SSH. I don’t have a specific timeline for Dev Container support, but your report helps prioritize it. Hi Mohit - is there a feature request I should be tracking to know when cursor 3 will support dev conta…

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug Agent view always notify “‘dev container’ is required to open remote window.do you want to install the extension” , after click " install and reload ". The notification appears again. Project not use dev container works well. …

Dev container support is a hard blocker for us to migrate to the new UI. Our team relies on dev containers heavily for our development workflow, so until that’s supported we’re stuck on the current UI. Hope this is on the roadmap. Thank you!

Good point about the prompt — agreed it should communicate the limitation clearly rather than suggesting an install that won’t resolve it. I’ve flagged that with the team. There’s no specific public feature request to track right now. The best place to watch for updates is the Cursor changelog — wh…

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I am unable to use the agent window on a remote container. When I try to, a popup appears and tells me to install the Dev Containers extension and restart. This extension is already installed. If i click on the ‘Install and Re…

This is a known limitation in the agent window. Dev Containers aren’t supported there yet – only SSH remotes are. The install prompt loops because the extension gets filtered out after installation, so the prompt just keeps reappearing. Two workarounds for now: Classic mode: Launch Cursor with c…

understood, kind of a bummer, but I look forward to when that fix is out!

Hi there, I had the same problem and spent 4 hours trying to get DevContainer to work in Glass. I even reinstalled everything. You really should communicate better when something isn’t supported yet. That would have saved me a lot of time and hassle. I hope you make this a priority. I imagine a lot…

Any updates here? I’m highly dependant on remote devcontainers in my work. So I’m waiting to try this new Glass, but I really cant. I would be grateful for a fix.

Dev container remotes don't work with Glass

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Just wanted to express this would also help me, as I use DevContainers exclusively so I’m effectively unable to use Glass

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Dev container remotes don't work with Glass

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