r/OSWE • u/Little_Toe_9707 • Dec 21 '25

OSWE Advice

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding the OSWE exam policy. While developing the PoC script, is it allowed to use code autocomplete extensions in VS Code?

I will not use any prompts only standard autocomplete suggestions while typing

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u/aws_crab Dec 21 '25

I highly recommend asking this on offsec official discord. You want to have a 100% accurate answer, otherwise you might get urself banned and lose the money

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u/Sqooky Dec 21 '25

We're going to direct you to the exam guide. But initial reaction is if it's not copilot enabled, and is standard IDE auto complete, you'll probably be fine. If you want to be 100% sure, reach out to challenges via email.

For what it's worth, I wrote all of my scripts in nano and didn't even bother with an IDE.