vscode

An agent guide for installing and configuring Watch Skill in VS Code with GitHub Copilot agent mode. It covers the required VS Code version, setup commands, MCP configuration, and a three-step smoke test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Watch Skill with uvx, pipx, or a source checkout, configure a workspace or user MCP server, and verify it from VS Code’s command palette.
Why use it?
It gives developers a concrete setup path for connecting Watch Skill to VS Code and checking whether the server is running.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/oxbshw/watch-skill/vscode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxbshw/watch-skill
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 448 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00448
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 71d6a38be536, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vscode scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/agents/vscode.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Watch Skill in VS Code (native MCP / Copilot agent mode)

Status: config verified against official docs, not machine-tested ☑ (VS Code with Copilot agent mode is not set up on the development machine.)

Requires VS Code ≥ 1.99 with GitHub Copilot and agent mode enabled.

Install

uvx --from "watch-skill[standard]" watch-skill doctor

uvx fetches the package on first use and needs no checkout. Prefer a permanent install? pipx install "watch-skill[standard]", then use "command": "watch-skill", "args": ["serve"] in the config below.

git clone https://github.com/oxbshw/watch-skill && cd watch-skill
uv sync --extra all
uv run watch-skill doctor

Then run watch-skill setup, which writes the config pointing at your checkout rather than the published package.

Configure

Per-workspace .vscode/mcp.json (note: servers, not mcpServers):

{
  "servers": {
    "watch-skill": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "watch-skill[standard]", "watch-skill", "serve"]
    }
  }
}

Or user-wide: Command Palette → MCP: Add Server.

Smoke test (3 steps)

  1. Command Palette → MCP: List Serverswatch-skill running.
  2. Copilot Chat (Agent mode), prompt: "Use watch-skill to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ and tell me what happens at 0:10."
  3. Follow up: "list indexed videos"list_videos.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 58 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 71d6a38be536

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vscode is an agent published in the GitHub repository oxbshw/watch-skill (320 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 448 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.