Subtly change the color of your Visual Studio Code workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances, use VS Live Share, or use VS Code's Remote features, and you want to quickly identify your editor.
Peacock is a Visual Studio Code extension that changes a workspace’s color so users can distinguish between multiple editor windows or shared and remote sessions. It is for developers who need a quick visual way to identify their VS Code workspaces. Its catalogue entries provide instructions and an MCP integration related to the extension.
Latest release v4.4.1 — Peacock 4.4.1 · 7 Sept 2026
3 files for GitHub Copilot, Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code: vscode-peacock copilot-instructions.md, vscode-peacock AGENTS.md, ai-ready — 4,701 tokens loaded in every session.
.github/copilot-instructions.md A 851 tok AGENTS.md C 3,850 tok .claude/skills/ai-ready/SKILL.md B 107 tok These files are johnpapa/vscode-peacock's own configuration — they tell GitHub Copilot, Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.