Visual Studio Code is a code editor that supports editing, navigating, understanding, debugging, and extending software projects. Developers use it for the edit-build-debug cycle, and the catalogue add-ons provide skills, instructions, and agents for working within the editor.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/vscode. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vscode/main/.github/skills/symbolicate-crash-dump/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vscodeWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/vscode/symbolicate-crash-dump)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/vscode/symbolicate-crash-dump"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/vscode/symbolicate-crash-dump.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Privilege Escalation · line 62 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00074 | $0.02655 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00037 | $0.01327 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00531 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00265 |
Grade A, and why
symbolicate-crash-dump scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
`microsoft/vscode-electron-prebuilt` is a **private** repo — this is why the flow is team-members-only. A plain browser or `curl` link will 404 without auth; download the asset with an authenticated GitHub CLI instead (` How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Symbolicate a Crash Dump
Turn a native VS Code crash dump (.dmp) into a readable backtrace with method names using electron-minidump.
VS Code team members only. Symbol files for internal Electron, Insiders, and Stable builds live in a private-adjacent release repo. A macOS or Linux device is required — electron-minidump does not run on Windows.
Prerequisites
- A crash dump file (
*.dmp). See Creating a crash report below if you don't have one yet. - A global install of
electron-minidump:npm install -g electron-minidump - For Insiders/Stable symbols, an authenticated GitHub CLI (
gh auth status) with access to the privatemicrosoft/vscode-electron-prebuiltrepo.
Procedure
1. Run an initial symbolication pass
This generates or refreshes the electron-minidump cache and tells you which symbols are still missing.
electron-minidump crash-file.dmp > symbolicated-output.log
Inspect symbolicated-output.log. Look at the top frames of the backtrace: if a frame names a module (e.g. Electron Framework) but has no method name after it, symbols for that module are required.
Retry on transient download errors. electron-minidump downloads symbols from public symbol servers, so a run can fail on a transient network error (e.g.
failed to download ... (code 56)or(code 28)). Successfully downloaded symbols are cached, so simply re-running the same command resumes where it left off. Retrying a few times is expected:for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do electron-minidump crash-file.dmp > symbolicated-output.log && break sleep 3 done
2. Get the appropriate symbol files
Match the symbol source to the build that produced the crash:
| Build that crashed | Symbol files source |
|---|---|
| Insiders / Stable (internal Electron) | microsoft/vscode-electron-prebuilt releases |
| Code - OSS (OSS Electron) | electron/electron releases |
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 181 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 6ef43909ad2c
symbolicate-crash-dump is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (191,470 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,655 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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