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How to add a repo to a workspace via URL?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, typescript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

The issue does not name any files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how code-server handles browser URLs and workspace opening, then determine the URL format, repository handling, and validation needed; done means a repository URL can open or clone a workspace and support the proposed one-click browser workflow.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement

What is your suggestion?

I have a locally hosted installation "https://coder.localhost/?..."
I want to go to github get an URL and clone/open via url
like "https://coder.localhost/?workspace=https://github.com/coder/code-serve" or something.

Why do you want this feature?

I can then write a chrome plugin for one click open in coder functionality.

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

Just manually.

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

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TypeScript
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