Skill Claude CodeCodex
Launch and automate VS Code (Code OSS) using agent-browser via Chrome DevTools Protocol. Use when you need to interact with the VS Code UI, automate the chat panel, test UI features, or take screenshots of VS Code. Triggers include 'automate VS Code', 'interact with chat', 'test the UI', 'take a screenshot', 'launch…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Primary accessibility skill for VS Code. REQUIRED for new feature and contribution work, and also applies to updates of existing UI. Covers accessibility help dialogs, accessible views, verbosity settings, signals, ARIA announcements, keyboard navigation, and ARIA labels/roles.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when adding, modifying, or reviewing VS Code configuration policies. Covers the full policy lifecycle from registration to export to platform-specific artifacts. Run on ANY change that adds a policy: field to a configuration property.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Agent Sessions workbench layout — covers the fixed layout structure, grid configuration, part visibility, editor modal, titlebar, sidebar footer, and implementation requirements. Use when implementing features or fixing issues in the Agent Sessions workbench layout.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Identify all files a specific author contributed to on a branch vs its upstream, tracing code through renames. Use when asked who edited what, what code an author contributed, or to audit authorship before a merge. This skill should be run as a subagent — it performs many git operations and returns a concise table.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when validating Azure DevOps pipeline changes for the VS Code build. Covers queueing builds, checking build status, viewing logs, and iterating on pipeline YAML changes without waiting for full CI runs.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when working on the Chat Customizations editor — the management UI for agents, skills, instructions, hooks, prompts, MCP servers, and plugins.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when creating or updating component fixtures for screenshot testing, or when designing UI components to be fixture-friendly. Covers fixture file structure, theming, service setup, CSS scoping, async rendering, and common pitfalls.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Investigate and fix CI failures on a pull request. Use when CI checks fail on a PR branch — covers finding the PR, identifying failed checks, downloading logs and artifacts, extracting the failure cause, and iterating on a fix. Requires the gh CLI.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Guidelines for fixing unhandled errors from the VS Code error telemetry dashboard. Use when investigating error-telemetry issues with stack traces, error messages, and hit/user counts. Covers tracing data flow through call stacks, identifying producers of invalid data vs. consumers that crash, enriching error messages…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when making code changes to ensure they pass VS Code's hygiene checks. Covers the pre-commit hook, unicode restrictions, string quoting rules, copyright headers, indentation, formatting, ESLint, and stylelint. Run the hygiene check before declaring work complete.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Audit code for memory leaks and disposable issues. Use when reviewing event listeners, DOM handlers, lifecycle callbacks, or fixing leak reports. Covers addDisposableListener, Event.once, MutableDisposable, DisposableStore, and onWillDispose patterns.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Agent Sessions window architecture — covers the sessions-first app, layering, folder structure, chat widget, menus, contributions, entry points, and development guidelines. Use when implementing features or fixing issues in the Agent Sessions window.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Ensure renamed built-in tool references preserve backward compatibility. Use when renaming a toolReferenceName, tool set referenceName, or any tool identifier. Run on ANY change to tool registration code. Covers legacyToolReferenceFullNames for tools and legacyFullNames for tool sets.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when running unit tests in the VS Code repo. Covers the runTests tool, scripts/test.sh (macOS/Linux) and scripts/test.bat (Windows), and their supported arguments for filtering, globbing, and debugging tests.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Download screenshot baselines from the latest CI run and commit them. Use when asked to update, accept, or refresh component screenshot baselines from CI, or after the screenshot-test GitHub Action reports differences. This skill should be run as a subagent.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Commit staged or unstaged changes with an AI-generated commit message that matches the repository's existing commit style. Use when the user asks to 'commit', 'commit changes', 'create a commit', 'save my work', or 'check in code'.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create or update repository skills and instructions when major learnings are discovered during a session. Use when the user says "learn!", when a significant pattern or pitfall is identified, or when reusable domain knowledge should be captured for future sessions.