Cursor is a lightning-fast, AI-powered code editor. GitHub Codespaces gives you a prebuilt cloud dev environment. Connecting the two gives you the power of a cloud IDE with the feel of a local editor.

Here’s how to set them up to work together — and what to do when it doesn’t work.

✅ What you’ll get

• Use Cursor to edit code inside a live GitHub Codespace
• Push to GitHub, deploy, run, test — all from within Cursor
• No fake "remote folders", this is the actual Codespace

Prerequisites

• A GitHub Codespace already created
• GitHub CLI installed (gh)
• Cursor installed (https://cursor.sh)
• SSH working on your machine

Problem

Failure to connect to a GitHub codespace when using Cursor