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🟠 GitHub's Codespaces forgot how to download extensions, turning devs into archaeologists who excavate their IDE setup manually. Partial recovery means some extensions work, others have trust issues and refuse to load. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Mar 12, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Degraded Codespaces experience

// Status page says

Mar 12 , 16:09 UTC Update - We're seeing intermittent failures downloading from the extension marketplace from codespaces and are investigating. Mar 12 , 15:08 UTC Update - We're seeing partial recovery for the issue affecting extension installation in newly created Codespaces. Some users may still experience degraded functionality where extensions hit errors. The team con

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/0s7ppykbyvqz

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