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.
npx agentmods add skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/ide-switchingnpx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill ide-switchinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cliWhat 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 | $0.00035 | $0.01112 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00556 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00222 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00111 |
Grade A, and why
ide-switching 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
IDE ↔ CLI Switching
Why This is Copilot-Exclusive
GitHub Copilot exists in both VS Code and the terminal under a single subscription and unified platform. You can start a conversation in VS Code's Copilot Chat, switch to the CLI for batch automation, and return to VS Code for visual debugging — all with the same model access, same MCP servers, and same GitHub integration. Claude Code is terminal-only with no IDE counterpart; switching contexts means losing your AI assistant entirely.
When to Use
- Visual tasks (diffing, debugging UI, extension-based tooling) → VS Code
- Batch operations, automation, scripting → CLI
- Large refactors that benefit from both visual review and automated execution
- When VS Code's Copilot Chat lacks a tool you need (SQL, fleet agents, MCP)
- Pair programming where one person uses IDE, another uses CLI
Workflow
Know Your Strengths: When to Use Each
| Task | VS Code Copilot | Copilot CLI |
|---|---|---|
| Visual code review | ✅ Side-by-side diffing | ❌ |
| Breakpoint debugging | ✅ Debug panel | ❌ |
| Single-file inline edits | ✅ Inline suggestions | ✅ Edit tool |
| Multi-file refactoring | ⚠️ Limited | ✅ Fleet mode |
| CI/CD debugging | ❌ | ✅ Actions MCP tools |
| PR review & management | ⚠️ Basic | ✅ Full GitHub MCP |
| Batch test execution | ⚠️ Manual | ✅ Background agents |
| SQL-based task tracking | ❌ | ✅ Session database |
| Multi-model selection | ⚠️ Limited | ✅ 20+ models available |
| Terminal automation | ⚠️ Integrated terminal | ✅ Native |
Switching Patterns
Pattern 1: CLI-First, Visual Verify
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 126 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 24a8809a876f
ide-switching is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,112 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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