> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Remote files

> The same panel on a host over SSH, without installing anything on the server.

When you're in an SSH session, the Files panel works on the remote host — without switching tools and without installing anything on the server. Here the panel is worth even more than locally: on a server you don't have VSCode on the side to escape to.

## How it works

Open the panel in an SSH session and it shows the host's files, not your machine's. Browse, read, edit, save, create, rename, delete — all the same as local, exactly the way you already learned.

Under the hood, it travels over the **SSH connection that's already open** — the same one as your session. It doesn't open a new connection, doesn't spin up a daemon or helper on the server. Each action is a one-off operation over the connection that already exists. The server keeps nothing of TYBA's resident on it.

## What changes from local

The UX is the same, but the remote protocol doesn't give every guarantee of the local disk, and the panel is honest about that:

* **Delete always asks for confirmation.** On your computer, deleting sends to the Trash and can be undone. On the remote host there's no standard Trash, so the panel confirms before every delete — once it's gone, it's gone.
* **The conflict guard still holds.** Saving checks whether the file changed on the host since you started editing, and warns instead of overwriting — same as local.
* **There's no automatic refresh.** Locally, the panel notices a file change on its own. Remotely that would cost network all the time, so the tree refreshes at the natural moments: when you expand a folder, focus the panel, take an action (save, create, rename, delete), or click refresh.
* **Git decorations come from the host.** The git status shown in the tree is the one from the repository on the server, computed on each refresh.

## What's left out remotely

<Note>
  The **language server is local-only**: in a remote session the panel doesn't boot an LSP, so there's no completion, diagnostics, or goto-def on the host. You edit, save, and see git — the language intelligence stays with local sessions.
</Note>

The name fuzzy finder works inside a remote git repository (it uses the host's git index). Outside a repository, it's disabled remotely.

## Before you use it

This assumes you already have an SSH session up in TYBA. Registering the host, the connection, and session persistence are covered in [SSH](/en/ssh/hosts-and-groups) — set that up first, and the Files panel starts working on the host with no extra step.