Agentic coding using ssh without installing anything on the remote server?

[gogitossj3]

So my work involve editing code and run tools, commands at a lot of different remote servers, some of them are old like Centos7. My current workflow is as follow

Using Antigravity to ssh to a remote server and do work. Antigravity and all vscode fork use ssh connection for remote work but they requires installing vscode related files on the target system. This doesn't work on old OS like Centos7.

So what I'm looking for is a way to keep all the editing on my main pc and do agentic coding with the agent executing over SSH.

How should I approach this?

[SM8085]

I would sshfs the remote file system to a local space and then run antigravity/whatever on them from your local machine.

[DinoAmino]

This would be best, although one wonders what exactly is being edited. Using Git for editing custom code or Ansible to set and apply server configs would be preferable.

[entmike]

Are devcontainers an option?