The Sovereign Developer IDE.
A hardened, corporate-independent distribution of VS Code built for developer sovereignty and privacy.

Codesphere is more than a rebrand; it's a declaration of independence. While many IDEs claim to be open-source, they often remain tethered to corporate telemetry, proprietary marketplaces, and branded lock-ins. Codesphere breaks these ties.

• 🛡️ Absolute Privacy: Zero telemetry. Every Microsoft endpoint is explicitly blocked at the source level.
• 🗳️ Extension Sovereignty: Powered by Open VSX, ensuring an open marketplace with no corporate gatekeeping.
• 🎨 Pure Identity: A deep, source-level rebrand that removes all traces of legacy branding (VSCodium, VS Code, Microsoft).
• ⚙️ High-Performance CI/CD: Optimized, platform-specific build pipelines with path-based triggers and isolated releases.

Codesphere is designed to be fully reproducible. You can build the entire IDE for your platform with a single command.

.\ci\ci-branding.sh
cd vendor/vscodium
.\build.sh

./ci/ci-branding.sh
cd vendor/vscodium
./build.sh

For detailed platform-specific requirements, see the Build Guide.

The project follows a Layered Injection Architecture, ensuring that we can stay up-to-date with upstream VS Code updates without manual code merges.

Dimension-MonoRepo/
├── branding/          # 🎨 Custom Identity assets & product configuration
├── ci/                # 🛠️ Rebranding & Compliance automation scripts
├── docs/              # 📚 Technical documentation & standards
└── vendor/vscodium/   # 📦 Upstream core repository (Submodule)

For a deep dive into how we "connect the dots" between branding and binary, see ARCHITECTURE.md.

We don't just claim rebranding; we enforce it. Our CI pipeline includes a dedicated compliance gate using high-performance search tools.

# Run the compliance scan manually
./ci/compliance-check.sh

What we check for:

• No lingering "VSCodium" or "VS Code" strings in the UI.
• Correct application names in window titles and menus.
• No telemetry connections to *.microsoft.com.

We welcome contributions to the Codesphere infrastructure! Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to propose changes to the branding or build logic.

Codesphere is a distribution of VS Code (MIT) via VSCodium. The build logic and branding in this repository are licensed under the MIT License.

Codesphere: Your code, your workspace, your sovereignty.