What is awesome-vscode CLAUDE.md?

Instructions for maintaining an Awesome List of Visual Studio Code extensions and related resources. An Awesome List is a curated directory, and this guide explains how to add entries, link to the marketplace, order them, and update its contents list.

Use it when adding or editing extension entries, themes, screenshots, categories, or the README table of contents.

It prevents formatting, linking, ordering, and documentation mistakes in a repository whose main product is its README file rather than software code.

How viatsko/awesome-vscode configures Claude Code

About the project

awesome-vscode is a curated catalogue of packages and resources for Visual Studio Code, including extensions, themes, language tools, and productivity utilities. Developers use it to find tools for customizing their editor and supporting particular technologies.

viatsko/awesome-vscode · 29,194 stars · on GitHub · viatsko.github.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to viatsko/awesome-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.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/viatsko/awesome-vscode/master/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/viatsko/awesome-vscode

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/viatsko/awesome-vscode/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/viatsko/awesome-vscode/claude-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/viatsko/awesome-vscode/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/viatsko/awesome-vscode/claude-md/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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 515 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 515 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00515	$0.00515
Opus 5.5	$0.00206	$0.00206
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00103	$0.00103
Haiku 4.5	$0.00052	$0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f8ea2901f966, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

awesome-vscode CLAUDE.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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

What this repo is

An Awesome List of Visual Studio Code extensions and resources. README.md is the product — there is no source code, no build step, and no app to run. Edits almost always mean editing README.md.

Adding an entry

Use this exact format (see CONTRIBUTING.md):

#### [Title of the package](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=NAME)
> A short description of what this package does and why it is awesome.

![title of the package](link to a .gif demonstrating functionality)

Rules:

Link to the VS Code Marketplace (marketplace.visualstudio.com), not the GitHub repo.
Place the entry in the most fitting section; if none fits, use uncategorized.
Keep entries in alphabetical order within their section.
Include a .gif/screenshot demonstrating functionality when possible.

The ToC at the top of README.md is maintained by hand and must be updated when sections are added, removed, or renamed. Anchors are GitHub-slugified (lowercase, spaces → -, most punctuation stripped; duplicates get a -1 suffix).

Themes

Prefer a vscodethemes link, else the Marketplace.
Alphabetical order; one theme per publisher.
Include a similar-style screenshot (template assets under themes/).

Linting / CI

markdownlint config is .markdownlint.json. Several rules are disabled on purpose (HTML allowed, line-length off, duplicate headings allowed, etc.) — don't "fix" these by reformatting.
CI (.travis.yml) runs awesome_bot README.md to check that all links resolve. Adding a dead or wrong link will fail the build. A whitelist of known-flaky domains lives in .travis.yml.

Conventions for changes

This is a PR-driven community repo: keep diffs minimal and scoped to the entry/section being changed.
Match the surrounding markdown style exactly (heading levels, > blockquote descriptions, spacing).
Do not commit unless explicitly asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 515 tokens per session scan A f8ea2901f966

Subscribe to this mod's changes

awesome-vscode CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository viatsko/awesome-vscode (29,194 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 515 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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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