With Cloud Code Extension enabled, every time I open a workspace (new or existing) VSCode spins up two Python tasks each taking up 10% cpu each for at least 5 minutes. Each task is going to C:\Users{userid}\AppData\Local\Temp and creating a new folder named tmp******/python and writing all this data (python libraries). The extension does this everytime I open a workspace, resulting in close to 100 of these tmp directories on my disk.
Also I'm not doing any python related dev or have any other python related extensions. I confirmed Cloud Code is the culprit via disabling the extension.
Does anyone know the purpose of this, and how to disable it w/o completely disabling the extension?
I'm on Windows 10.
This is Cloud Code installing and updating the Google Cloud CLI. This includes a bunch of python files and they precompile on first use. As you already discovered this is controlled by the cloudcode.autodependencies setting, you can set this to off and have Cloud Code utilize that install from the system path. This is covered in the docs under https://cloud.google.com/code/docs/vscode/install#custom_versions_of_dependencies.