vscode-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/vscode-mcp-tool-development/SKILL.md

vscode-mcp-tool-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tjx666/vscode-mcp. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,337 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A development guide for creating, changing, or debugging tools in the VSCode MCP Bridge repository. It covers message schemas, service registration, tool definitions, adapters, workspace paths, command-line flags, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or fixing VSCode MCP tools, updating their communication contracts, or running focused validation and regression tests.
Why use it?
It gives developers the full set of repository steps needed to change a tool without missing connected components.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is tjx666/vscode-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on vscode-mcp 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-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tjx666/vscode-mcp. 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/tjx666/vscode-mcp/main/.agents/skills/vscode-mcp-tool-development/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjx666/vscode-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,337 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00065 $0.01337
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 9d ago against content hash cf19826521a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vscode-mcp-tool-development 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 9d 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.

.agents/skills/vscode-mcp-tool-development/SKILL.md · 118 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A cf19826521a8

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vscode-mcp-tool-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository tjx666/vscode-mcp (102 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,337 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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