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[FEATURE]: Show whether the session is local or remote, and which host it is connected to #21435
Description
When using opencode server on one machine and opencode attach from another device, it is difficult to tell which system the current session is connected to.
Today the UI shows the path, but not whether the session is local vs remote, or which host it is attached to. In practice this makes remote sessions easy to confuse, especially when multiple machines use similar directory layouts.
Requested enhancement:
- show whether the session is local or remote
- show the connected host/system name for remote sessions
Even showing the host next to the existing path would solve this well.
I checked the current plugin API and it does not appear to expose a way to add a persistent sidebar/status UI element for this, so this seems like a core UI feature rather than a plugin.
Benefit:
This would make remote sessions much easier and safer to identify at a glance.
Activity
github-actions commentedon Apr 8, 2026
This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
christian-taillon commentedon Apr 8, 2026
This looks related to #6461, so I wanted to point people there.
My request here is narrower and UI-only. I’m not asking for named remote connections or the broader remote/session-origin workflow. I’m only asking for a simple at-a-glance UI indicator showing whether the current session is local or remote, and which host it is connected to.
In practice, even just surfacing the hostname alongside the existing path would solve the problem for me.
If maintainers consider this fully covered by #6461, I’m fine with that. I mainly wanted to highlight that this could potentially be implemented as a much smaller standalone UI improvement.
I’d use the second one.
github-actions commentedon Jul 6, 2026
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