vscode-sidebar-terminal: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/vscode-bug-hunter/SKILL.md

vscode-bug-hunter is a skill for Claude Code from s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bug-finding guide for Visual Studio Code extensions, which are editor add-ons. It focuses on discovering hidden problems through code inspection, audits, pattern matching, and tests before users encounter them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for proactive extension audits, release checks, suspicious-code investigations, and searches for bugs that have not yet appeared in production.
Why use it?
It helps uncover memory leaks, race conditions, security issues, and other defects that may not have produced an error yet.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vscode-sidebar-terminal itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vscode-sidebar-terminal configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal/main/.claude/skills/vscode-bug-hunter/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,445 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 154
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 157
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 160
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00069 $0.02445
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01222
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00245

Measured 11d ago against content hash da47e4119194, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vscode-bug-hunter 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 11d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

grep -rn "eval\|innerHTML\|child_process\|exec\(" src/ --include="*.ts"
.claude/skills/vscode-bug-hunter/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VS Code Bug Hunter

Overview

This skill enables systematic discovery and detection of bugs in VS Code extensions before they cause problems in production. It provides structured workflows for proactively finding issues through static analysis, pattern matching, code auditing, and systematic investigation techniques.

When to Use This Skill

  • Proactively searching for bugs in extension code
  • Auditing code for potential issues before release
  • Investigating suspicious behavior patterns
  • Analyzing code for memory leaks, race conditions, or security vulnerabilities
  • Performing systematic code reviews
  • Finding bugs that haven't manifested yet
  • Preparing for release by identifying hidden issues

Bug Hunting vs Debugging

Bug Hunting (This Skill) Debugging (vscode-extension-debugger)
Proactive discovery Reactive fixing
Find bugs before they manifest Fix bugs after they occur
Static and dynamic analysis Error investigation
Code auditing Stack trace analysis
Pattern-based detection Reproduction-based fixing

Bug Detection Workflow

Phase 1: Reconnaissance

Gather intelligence about the codebase before hunting.

1.1 Map the Codebase Structure
# Find all TypeScript files
find src -name "*.ts" | head -20

# Identify key components
grep -r "export class" src/ --include="*.ts" | head -20

# Find entry points
grep -r "activate\|deactivate" src/ --include="*.ts"
1.2 Identify High-Risk Areas

High-risk areas are more likely to contain bugs:

Area Risk Level Reason
Async operations High Race conditions, unhandled rejections
Event handlers High Memory leaks, missing dispose
WebView communication High Message timing, state sync
File I/O Medium Error handling, permissions
User input processing Medium Validation, injection
Configuration handling Medium Type mismatches, defaults
UI rendering Low Visual issues, layout

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 402 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A da47e4119194

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vscode-bug-hunter is a skill published in the GitHub repository s-hiraoku/vscode-sidebar-terminal (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,445 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-01.

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