--- ./ci/build/npm-postinstall.sh
+++ ./ci/build/npm-postinstall.sh
@@ -24,13 +24,6 @@ main() {
     ;;
   esac
 
-  OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
-  if curl -fsSL "https://storage.googleapis.com/coder-cloud-releases/agent/latest/$OS/cloud-agent" -o ./lib/coder-cloud-agent; then
-    chmod +x ./lib/coder-cloud-agent
-  else
-    echo "Failed to download cloud agent; --link will not work"
-  fi
-
   if ! vscode_yarn; then
     echo "You may not have the required dependencies to build the native modules."
     echo "Please see https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/npm.md"