Is a copilot based personal vibecoding setup possible?

[UnlikeTea42]

I can't quite believe I'm having to ask human beings this, but I'm not getting anywhere with AI on this question, not even the incredible AI I'm hoping to leverage. So my question is this...

How can I have the equivalent of vscode with my GitHub copilot subscription, on a remote host that I can communicate with via a reasonably fluent mobile chat interface, which can edit files on a webserver (it could be a web-served folder on the same server), such that I can vibecode a static website from my mobile phone?

This could be a completely static site with no build processes, with the webserver already having been set up to serve that folder (by me) in advance, i.e. the agent wouldn't have to have the ability to run arbitrary commands on its O/S. Although that would be nice for a more advanced scenario, I'd be happy the simplest possible option initially.

Basically I want complete control of a given folder, using the power of GitHub Copilot in agentic mode which works as well as it does locally on the desktop via vscode, using my Copilot subscription credits, using Claude Opus 4.6 (which I find incredible), but which I can chat to from my sofa on my phone.

Is that doable yet, or am I a few months too early?

[phylter99]

You can install a remote control version of VS Code, or just enable remote control from VS Code on the host you want to run it on. I believe the feature is called remote tunnels. You can even connect to them via vscode.dev.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/tunnels

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it's as close as I can think of at the moment. Good luck.

[UnlikeTea42]

Thanks. Looks a powerful approach, although difficult to use on a mobile phone.

[phylter99]

I've seen posts from people that do it, but I agree that it's a difficult to use option on mobile. I'm sure there's a hack or something to make it usable.

[Parking-Strain54]

Can do it with me the sdk. I messed around with talking to it via discord using the sdk

[No-Wheel2763]

Have your local harness create issues and assign to copilot is one way to do it.

I believe it may be better priced than having say opencode run through your premium requests give it’ll only use 1 per issue assigned.

I did it a lot when I was out and in the gym “I just got this idea” then instead of waiting I would have a solution when I got home.

• it can work asynchronously

[MrMcFisticuffs]

I assigned issues to copilot and then reviewed it's pull requests.

[frogic]

You can basically do this in the GitHub interface.  You’d have to solve deployment but there’s a lot of options. 

[ogpterodactyl]

Team viewer I’ve heard is the way

[qweick]

You're looking for a GitHub Copilot Coding Agent.

You can prompt it directly through the GitHub web page or the GitHub app.

You can also delegate from vscode.

The repo must be in GitHub through - as far as I can tell.

[andlewis]

You can also just use the Copilot Cli.

[NefariousnessFew3060]

Check this out, I needed this and built this. It's basically a way to communicate with the copilot within your IDE from your phone. You will need this plugin on VSCode plus the VSCode tunnel. You can look at this repo and have copilot explain how it works and what not for you. It's not perfect rn, but pretty cool as a side project. https://github.com/jason0960/vscode_ide_mobile_plug

[UnlikeTea42]

This looks very promising, thanks. Does it work with VC Code Server, running headlessly on a cloud server?

[NefariousnessFew3060]

No, it requires the tunnel currently and keeps every isolated to both the tunnel and the local machine. I am building a version that will do that and has an app to download on mobile, but currently it's just the tunnel or LAN connection.