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/ux-css-layout/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/ux-css-layout)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/vscode/ux-css-layout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/vscode/ux-css-layout/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/vscode/ux-css-layout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/vscode/ux-css-layout.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00052 | $0.03886 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.01554 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00777 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00389 |
Grade A, and why
ux-css-layout 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 1mo 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 — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
This skill covers CSS file organization, naming, standard sizes, programmatic layout (SplitView, Grid, scrollable), responsive patterns, and text overflow handling.
1. File Organization
CSS files are co-located with their TypeScript components:
src/vs/base/browser/ui/button/
button.ts
button.css
src/vs/workbench/contrib/myFeature/browser/
myFeature.ts
media/
myFeature.css
Import CSS directly in the TS file:
import './media/myFeature.css';
// or for base widgets:
import './button.css';
Workbench-level global styles live in src/vs/workbench/browser/media/.
2. Class Naming
monaco-prefix for all major components:.monaco-workbench,.monaco-split-view2,.monaco-scrollable-element- Modifier classes:
.monaco-split-view2.vertical,.monaco-split-view2.horizontal - State classes:
.visible,.focused,.active,.highlight - Feature-specific classes use kebab-case without prefix:
.my-feature,.outline-pane,.welcome-view-content
3. Standard Sizes
| Element | Size |
|---|---|
| Part title height | 35px |
| Title padding (horizontal) | 8px |
| Title label inner padding | 12px |
| Action area padding | 5px |
| Action icon size | 16px |
| Body font-size | 13px (workbench), 11px (HTML body) |
| Line height | 1.4em |
| Validation message font-size | 12px (line-height: 17px) |
For
padding/margin/gap,border-radius,font-size/font-weight, codicon size and border width, prefer the design-system size tokens over raw px — see §10 Design-System Size Tokens. Canonical reference:.github/instructions/design-tokens.instructions.md(auto-injected forsrc/vs/**/*.css).
4. CSS Selector Quality
| Anti-pattern (flagged) | Correct pattern |
|---|---|
ID selectors for styling (#my-widget) |
Class selectors (.my-widget) |
| Overly specific selectors | Minimal specificity needed |
| Styles in the wrong file | Co-located with the component |
Missing min-width: 0 on flex children |
Prevents truncation issues |
Forgetting pointer-events: none on hidden overlays |
Prevents click-through bugs |
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · -56 lines ed8945a22484
- 1mo ago First seen · 389 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A fbff718595b1
ux-css-layout is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/vscode (194,219 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 3,886 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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