Visual Studio Code is a code editor that supports editing, navigating, understanding, debugging, and extending software projects. Developers use it for the edit-build-debug cycle, and the catalogue add-ons provide skills, instructions, and agents for working within the editor.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/vscode. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vscode/main/.github/instructions/kusto.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vscodeWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/vscode/kusto)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/vscode/kusto"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/vscode/kusto/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/vscode/kusto"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/vscode/kusto.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00183 | $0.00183 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00073 | $0.00073 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
vscode kusto.instructions.md 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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- nyrve kusto.instructions.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
Kusto Exploration Instructions
When performing Kusto queries, telemetry analysis, or data exploration tasks for VS Code, consult the comprehensive Kusto instructions located at:
These instructions contain valuable information about:
- Available Kusto clusters and databases for VS Code telemetry
- Common query patterns and best practices
- Schema information and table structures
- Tips for effective data exploration
Reading these instructions before writing Kusto queries will help you write more accurate and efficient queries, avoid common pitfalls, and leverage existing knowledge about VS Code's telemetry infrastructure.
(Make sure to have the main branch of vscode-tools up to date in case there are problems and the repository cloned from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-tools).
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 609bde2e8a76
vscode kusto.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (193,657 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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