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Disable extensions using the commandline

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
cli

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating code-server's command-line option parsing and the extension-management entry point, then trace how built-in extensions are loaded. Done means a container can pass an extension ID such as vscode.github to --disable-extension and that extension is not available in the resulting instance.

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Description

enhancement

What is your suggestion?

I would like to disable built-in extensions, as they cannot be uninstalled.

something like:

code-server --disable-extension <ext_id>

Why do you want this feature?

I usually build a container with code-server in it and preinstall extensions / preconfigure it.
In the latest version the github extension automatically brings AI chat functions and people are of course confused because they will not work

I would like to disable the built-in extension "vscode.github" in my container image build

Are there any workarounds to get this functionality today?

ClickOps in each instance.

Are you interested in submitting a PR for this?

i can try

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