Request: workflow for using Particle Workbench in Antigravity or publishing Workbench to Open VSX marketplace

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I’m trying to use the Workbench extension for the Tachyon SBC inside the Antigravity IDE from google. Antigravity is almost a VS code clone but with google Gemini AI access to your terminal and project you have open. Antigravity uses Open VSX as its default extension registry, and pretty sure I can’t install the extension from the VS Code marketplace directly for Antigravity and have it work..

Could you please let me know if Particle has an established workflow for adding and using the Workbench extension inside Antigravity?

Specifically:

  • Do you already publish the Workbench extension to Open VSX or have plans to do so?

  • If not, do you have a recommended process for packaging or exporting a .vsix that works reliably with Antigravity?

  • Any guidance on required metadata, compatibility flags, or known issues when running Workbench in VS Code Clones?

If possible publishing to Open VSX would make installation and updates much simpler for users of Antigravity.
If you need a volunteer to test the Open VSX package or help verify installation in Antigravity, I’m happy to assist.

Thanks for your time and I appreciate any guidance or next steps you can share,

Marcus Gricks

marcus.gricks@gmail.com

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A reasonable request. The reason the Particle Workbench extension won't load in non-Microsoft VSCode-based IDEs like Antigravity, Cursor, etc. is that it depends on the Microsoft C++ extension. However, this dependency is really only needed for embedded C++ development, not for Linux development.

For Tachyon development, you really don't need the Workbench extension, you can just use native extensions for the languages you are using. It would be nice to have the extension for containerized application development on Particle Linux/Tachyon, but you can use the Particle CLI to deploy until a better solution is available.

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Hi, have you tried downloading it from here? Not the latest though but perhaps good enough…