extension-ui-reference

A guide for inspecting the Claude Code VS Code extension while it is running, so another interface can be compared with it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or redesigning interface components, checking how a specific element works, or preparing changes to make a user interface match the Claude Code extension.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when matching an existing extension’s appearance and behavior. It shows where to look in the extension code and how to inspect its live interface.

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/recca0120/code-quest/extension-ui-reference
Any agent
npx skills add recca0120/code-quest --skill extension-ui-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/recca0120/code-quest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,123 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 $0.00061 $0.01123
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00562
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash b097e1255a16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extension-ui-reference 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.

.claude/skills/extension-ui-reference/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extension UI Reference — Live Inspection with MCP

Extension Folder

/Users/user/Desktop/anthropic.claude-code-2.1.45-darwin-arm64/
├── src/
│   ├── core/main.js   ← 核心邏輯(~70k 行,可讀性高,首選)
│   ├── core/runtime.js ← esbuild helper
│   ├── modules/        ← 第三方 npm 模組(210 個)
│   └── module-map.json ← 模組索引
├── extension.js        ← bundled(94k 行,備案,不優先讀)
├── webview/index.js    ← webview React app (compiled)
└── .vscode/
    └── launch.json     ← "Run Extension" debug config

讀程式碼時以 src/core/main.js 為主,extension.js 為備案。 src/core/main.js 經過 webcrack + prettier + normalize,class/method 名保留,可讀性遠高於 bundled extension.js。

Step 1: Launch Extension in Debug Mode

Use MCP debugmcp start_debugging to launch the extension:

tool: start_debugging
fileFullPath: /Users/user/Desktop/anthropic.claude-code-2.1.45-darwin-arm64/extension.js
workingDirectory: /Users/user/Desktop/anthropic.claude-code-2.1.45-darwin-arm64
configurationName: Run Extension

This opens a new VS Code Extension Development Host window with the Claude Code UI.

Step 2: Inspect the Live UI

Option A — VS Code Developer Tools (visual inspection)

In the Extension Development Host window:

  1. Help → Toggle Developer Tools (opens Chromium DevTools)
  2. Use Element Inspector to click any UI element and see its CSS classes and computed styles
  3. Look for class patterns like camelCase_randomHash (e.g., menuPopup_pZbgXw, fileItem_pZbgXw)
  4. Check the Styles panel for actual computed CSS values

Option B — evaluate_expression (programmatic)

After start_debugging, use evaluate_expression to query the extension host context.

To inspect webview content (if accessible from extension host):

// Get computed styles of a specific element
getComputedStyle(document.querySelector('.menuPopup_pZbgXw'))

Step 3: Map Extension CSS → cc-office Design Tokens

Extension CSS Variable cc-office Token / Class
--app-menu-background bg-surface
--app-input-border border-border
--app-primary-foreground text-text
--app-secondary-foreground text-text-muted
--app-list-active-background hover:bg-white/5
--corner-radius-large (8px) rounded-lg
--app-list-border-radius (4px) rounded
--app-list-item-padding (4px 8px) py-1 px-2
--app-monospace-font-family font-mono

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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 · 107 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b097e1255a16

Subscribe to this mod's changes

extension-ui-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository recca0120/code-quest (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,123 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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