Local VS Code extension download

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I have VS Code workspaces enabled in my enrollment and I’ve set the permissions in the Control Panel to allow local development, however I’m not seeing any link to the VSIX file from my code repositories.

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Are there any alternative download locations for the extension or are there other settings that I might need to enable?

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Disclaimer: this is certainly not the recommended approach, follow instructions at your own risk, but here are the steps that I took to get this working without an obvious way to download via the UI:

  1. Create a new code repository and open a VS code workspace.
  2. Open a bash terminal via VS Code commands
  3. Navigate to ~/.vscode-server-oss/extensions and tar up the palantir.authoring-vscode-extension-0.9.7 (or whatever version) directory. Similarly, copy the entry in extensions.json for this extension.
  4. Move the tar file to the repository and sync it.
  5. Clone the repository to your local machine.
  6. Ensure VS Code is not running locally - we will be manually modifying the extensions.
  7. Untar the tgz file into your ~/.vscode/extensions directory.
  8. Add the entry you copied from extensions.json on the remote workspace to your own, you’ll need to update the contents to point to your local directory.
  9. Open VS Code - the extension should be installed and can properly auto-update itself.