Disabling local third party agent modes like "Claude" or "Codex" from Visual Studio Code

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Hello,

Recently the security area of my company block any "Claude" related request enterprise wide, and affected us in the "Claude" agent mode because that mode makes requests to api.anthropic.com directly, and now that domain is blocked.

As of today, "Third party agents" cannot be disabled locally on Visual Studio Code by a Policy or something like that, as the docs says:

These policies do not apply to local agents in Visual Studio Code, which cannot be disabled. They do apply to cloud agents in Visual Studio Code.

We need a way to remove this mode from appearing in the "Agents" selection dropdown, to improve the users experience, and because we are constanly receiving reports from users because "Claude mode is not working". Also, we want to control what third party agents are available in local mode, as the Remote ones in github.com agents tab, for security and data privacy reasons. Internal AI governance and compliance team is OK with anthropic models througt the "agent mode", because that mode uses like a "github proxy" sort off.

Hoping this will improve user experience and the service, thanks in advance.

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[francovp]

FYI,

I just discovered that there is a Administrator Group Policy to disable the Claude Agent, documented in the incoming v1.114 release notes.