vscode-uat

vscode-uat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wsauret/flywheel. It costs 16 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An acceptance-testing procedure for checking a packaged VS Code extension in a separate editor instance. It uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), a way to inspect and control a running application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and install a VSIX package, exercise the extension's user interface, capture screenshots and logs, and verify the stated acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It prevents tests from accidentally using the developer's own editor, extensions, profile, or shared ports. It also records visible results and diagnostics while checking recovery from a failure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build and install a VSIX package, exercise the extension's user interface, capture screenshots and logs, and verify the stated acceptance criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wsauret/flywheel/vscode-uat
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.

Any agent
npx skills add wsauret/flywheel --skill vscode-uat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wsauret/flywheel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 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 $0.00016 $0.00379
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 4d ago against content hash a945d7659c3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vscode-uat 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 4d 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.

src/orchestration/modules/development/definitions/skills/vscode-uat/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

VS Code UAT

Input: extension acceptance criteria, source revision, the universal package, and a session scratch directory.

Compose generic UAT. Build the required VSIX. Allocate unique profile, extension, workspace, log, screenshot, marker, and dynamically selected CDP-port resources under the supplied scratch directory. Never use a fixed /tmp path, shared port, or personal editor profile. Launch only the isolated instance, install the exact VSIX, and prove reload with a fresh marker. Connect through CDP after bounded readiness. Rediscover element references after navigation or reload. Exercise each criterion through packaged extension UI, capture screenshots and extension-host or webview diagnostics, and prove recovery for one load-bearing failure path. Close only the isolated instance and clean owned resources.

Launch the editor binary directly with --user-data-dir, --extensions-dir, and --remote-debugging-port; the code command and open -a reuse the person's own instance. Keep the isolated HOME short, because a unix socket path over 104 bytes fails the extension's runtime connection on macOS. A DevTools endpoint that never answers and a refused screen capture leave the render unobserved: bun run --cwd vscode e2e then proves the stack, not the appearance, and the report says so. Client behaviour that does not depend on the editor host is proven with webview-uat first.

Stop when every criterion has a generic UAT status or the editor cannot be driven safely. Return VSIX identity, isolated-instance details, interactions, screenshots and logs, criterion statuses, recovery evidence, and cleanup state. Package, launcher, port, CDP, CSP, or extension-host failure returns blocked with diagnostics.

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. 4d ago First seen · 15 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A a945d7659c3a

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vscode-uat is a skill published in the GitHub repository wsauret/flywheel (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-11-03.

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