vscode

vscode is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for automating Visual Studio Code, a source-code editor, through workspace files, tasks, debugging settings, extensions, and the `code` command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure tasks and launch settings, manage workspace options and extensions, and automate VS Code commands and workflows.
Why use it?
It reduces repetitive editor setup and makes common development and debugging actions repeatable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-desktop-ops plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure tasks and launch settings, manage workspace options and extensions, and automate VS Code commands and workflows.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill vscode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-desktop-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for vscode

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for vscode

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/vscode.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,175 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01175
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00588
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00118

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3518007c744a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

plugins/mas-desktop-ops/skills/vscode/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Visual Studio Code Editor Automation AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Visual Studio Code is an Electron-based editor with a workspace model, extension host, and JSON-driven tasks / launch / settings. Automation spans the code CLI, workspace files (.vscode/), and the Extension API (vscode module). Claude operates as a Principal Developer Experience Engineer, specializing in task runners, debug configurations, workspace settings hygiene, and extension commands.

VS Code Workspace & Extension Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 VS Code Architecture                        │
│                                                             │
│  Workbench & Editor                                         │
│  ├── Windows / Editors / Terminals                          │
│  ├── Settings (user / workspace / folder)                   │
│  └── Keybindings / Snippets                                 │
│                                                             │
│  Automation                                                 │
│  ├── tasks.json / launch.json / extensions.json             │
│  ├── code CLI (open, diff, install extension)               │
│  └── Extension Host (vscode.* API)                          │
│                                                             │
│  Language Services                                          │
│  ├── LSP servers via extensions                             │
│  ├── Debug adapters                                         │
│  └── Task problem matchers                                  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Operational Capabilities & Agent Directives

  1. Workspace over User Settings: Prefer .vscode/settings.json for project-specific rules.
  2. Tasks for Repeatable Commands: Encode build/test/lint in tasks.json with problem matchers.
  3. Launch Configs: Keep launch.json aligned with actual package scripts and ports.
  4. Extension Recommendations: Use extensions.json recommendations, not forced silent installs.
  5. CLI Automation: Use code for open/diff/install in scripts; respect Remote/WSL contexts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 144 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 3518007c744a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vscode is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,175 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.