diff --git a/.devcontainer/swift/root.sh b/.devcontainer/swift/root.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 5f9648ce3e85..33ffba0a741c
--- a/.devcontainer/swift/root.sh
+++ b/.devcontainer/swift/root.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,16 @@ set -xe
 BAZELISK_VERSION=v1.12.0
 BAZELISK_DOWNLOAD_SHA=6b0bcb2ea15bca16fffabe6fda75803440375354c085480fe361d2cbf32501db
 
+# install git lfs apt source
+curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | bash
+
+# install gh apt source
+(type -p wget >/dev/null || (sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install wget -y)) \
+&& sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings \
+&& wget -qO- https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
+&& sudo chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
+&& echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null \
+
 apt-get update
 export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends \
@@ -10,7 +20,9 @@ apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends \
     uuid-dev \
     python3-distutils \
     python3-pip \
-    bash-completion
+    bash-completion \
+    git-lfs \
+    gh
 
 # Install Bazel
 curl -fSsL -o /usr/local/bin/bazelisk https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/releases/download/${BAZELISK_VERSION}/bazelisk-linux-amd64
diff --git a/.devcontainer/swift/user.sh b/.devcontainer/swift/user.sh
index fbf8aca57a71..1de3485a723b 100755
--- a/.devcontainer/swift/user.sh
+++ b/.devcontainer/swift/user.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 set -xe
 
+git lfs install
+
 # add the workspace to the codeql search path
 mkdir -p /home/vscode/.config/codeql
 echo "--search-path /workspaces/codeql" > /home/vscode/.config/codeql/config