# Command line utility: pbs-workbench; your own personal ARE **URL:** \ **Category:** Research Software Community\ **Created:** [4 November 2025 02:06 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/command-line-utility-pbs-workbench-your-own-personal-are/5487 "2025-11-04T02:06:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![atteggiani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/atteggiani/32/212_2.png) [@atteggiani](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/atteggiani)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2025 03:39 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/command-line-utility-pbs-workbench-your-own-personal-are/5487/2 "2025-11-04T03:39:19Z")
Thank you for sharing this tool @eliocamp! I think being able to quickly spin up a job on a computing node and being able to connect to it through VSCode is very useful for many people in the community. I created a similar script years ago following [this (fairly old) discussion](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/vscode-extension-to-run-are-session/263) as I was getting frustrated with ARE, and @abhaasgoyal might also have done something similar based of my script. In general, I see such a feature being highly requested by people in the community, as multiple forum topics confirm: [VSCode Extension to run ARE session](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/vscode-extension-to-run-are-session/263), [Opening the ARE jupyterlab session on VS code](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/opening-the-are-jupyterlab-session-on-vs-code/2214), [Working with Jupyter notebooks on gadi/ARE via VS Code](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/working-with-jupyter-notebooks-on-gadi-are-via-vs-code/461). What are the thoughts about creating a VSCode extension (some old details in the link above) to spin up a computing job and connect to it? We might need to coordinate with NCI too on this, but I would be happy to help. Cheers Davide --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/command-line-utility-pbs-workbench-your-own-personal-are/5487)._