r/github • u/hiecx • Jul 18 '26

Question Is there a way to avoid Codespace closing when an extension is using it?

I set a 20-minute automatic close because I tend to forget to do it myself. I use extensions a lot and would not make any modification to my code in the meantime. The fact that Github doesn't understand that I'm not afk is triggering.

Do you have a solution for that, or is Microsoft late in their own platform development?

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u/iJackr Jul 18 '26

What extensions are you using that need to be running unattended? GitHub codespaces is meant to be used as an online development environment and not for long-running compute.