chat-customizations-editor

A guide for changing the Chat Customizations editor, the interface for managing agents, skills, instructions, hooks, prompts, MCP servers, and plugins. It covers items stored at workspace, user, extension, and plugin levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing the split-view editor, filtering by harness such as Local or Copilot CLI, customization lists, sessions-window behavior, or shared interfaces. Changes to those interfaces should be checked in both core and sessions registrations.
Why use it?
It helps keep the management interface and its shared contracts consistent across different customization sources and app contexts. It also points developers to the relevant code and documentation before making changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/vscode/chat-customizations-editor
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/vscode --skill chat-customizations-editor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,743 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.02743
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01372
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00274

Measured 2d ago against content hash f84a23cb3416, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chat-customizations-editor 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.

.github/skills/chat-customizations-editor/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chat Customizations Editor

Split-view management pane for AI customization items across workspace, user, extension, and plugin storage. Supports harness-based filtering (Local, Copilot CLI, Claude).

Spec

src/vs/sessions/AI_CUSTOMIZATIONS.md — read for ownership and interface contracts. Update it only when those contracts change; behavior and regressions belong in focused tests.

Key Folders

Folder What
src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/common/ ICustomizationHarnessService, ISectionOverride, ICustomizationItemProvider — shared interfaces
src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/aiCustomization/ Management editor, list widgets (prompts, MCP, plugins), harness service registration
src/vs/sessions/contrib/chat/browser/ Sessions-window overrides (harness service, workspace service)
src/vs/sessions/contrib/sessions/browser/ Sessions tree view counts and toolbar

When changing harness descriptor interfaces or factory functions, verify both core and sessions registrations compile.

Key Interfaces

  • IHarnessDescriptor — drives harness behavior declaratively (hidden sections, button overrides, item providers, agent gating). See spec for the stable ownership contract.
  • ISectionOverride — per-section button customization (command invocation, root file creation, type labels, file extensions).
  • ICustomizationItemProvider / ICustomizationItem — internal interfaces (in customizationHarnessService.ts) for extension-contributed providers that supply items directly. These mirror the proposed extension API types.

Principle: the UI widgets read everything from the descriptor — no harness-specific conditionals in widget code.

Extension API (chatSessionCustomizationProvider)

The proposed API in src/vscode-dts/vscode.proposed.chatSessionCustomizationProvider.d.ts lets extensions register customization providers. Changes to ICustomizationItem or ICustomizationItemProvider must be kept in sync across the full chain:

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 2d ago First seen · 198 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f84a23cb3416

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chat-customizations-editor is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (190,384 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,743 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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