extension-audit-methodology

extension-audit-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured quality audit for Visual Studio Code extensions, which add features to the editor.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before releases, after refactoring, during performance investigations, or when cleaning up removed features.
Why use it?
It finds extension-specific problems that ordinary review or linting can miss, such as unused commands, blocking work, debug output, and leftover dependencies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before releases, after refactoring, during performance investigations, or when cleaning up removed features.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill extension-audit-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,336 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 $0.00032 $0.01336
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00134

Measured 7d ago against content hash 23ce91de7452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extension-audit-methodology 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 7d 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/code-quality/extension-audit-methodology/skills/extension-audit-methodology/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extension Audit Methodology

Find quality issues standard code review misses — before release, not after deployment.


Pattern Overview

A systematic 5-dimension audit framework for VS Code extensions to identify code quality issues beyond standard linting. Produces actionable recommendations with evidence-based prioritization.

Problem Solved: Standard code review catches logic bugs and style issues, but misses extension-specific quality problems like orphaned commands, blocking I/O in UI threads, debug noise in production, and leftover dependencies from removed features.

When to Use:

  • Before major release (milestone versions)
  • After significant refactoring
  • When performance degradation suspected
  • Post-feature-removal cleanup

Time Investment: 2-4 hours for comprehensive audit + 4-8 hours remediation


5-Dimension Audit Framework

1. Debug & Logging Audit

Objective: Identify console statements and categorize by necessity

Method:

# Scan for all console statements
Select-String -Path src/*.ts -Pattern "console\.(log|debug|warn|error)" -Recurse

Categorization:

Category Keep? Examples Rationale
Enterprise compliance Audit logs, security events Legal/regulatory requirement
User feedback TTS status, long-running ops User-facing information
Critical errors Unrecoverable failures Debugging user-reported issues
Setup verbosity "Loading CSS..." Noise during normal operation
Migration debugging Version upgrade steps Temporary development artifacts

2. Dead Code Detection

Commands Cross-Check:

  1. Find registered commands in extension.ts
  2. Find command contributions in package.json
  3. Find command invocations in UI/views
  4. Identify: broken (in UI, not registered), dead (registered, never invoked)

3. Performance Profiling

Blocking I/O Scan:

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 7d ago First seen · 200 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 23ce91de7452

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extension-audit-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,336 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 2026-09-03.

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