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Visual Studio Code agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Visual Studio Code skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Browser automation CLI for AI agents. Use when the user needs to interact with websites, including navigating pages, filling forms, clicking… | vercel-labs/ | 44k | 24 repos | ~864 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 2 | Automates Electron desktop apps such as VS Code, Slack or Discord by connecting agent-browser to their Chrome DevTools Protocol port. | vercel-labs/ | 44k | 5 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 3 | Create agent skills for Microsoft technologies using official documentation. | MicrosoftDocs/ | 1.9k | 3 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 8 days ago |
| 4 | Create custom GitHub Copilot agents. An agent skill from dotnet/efcore. | dotnet/ | 15k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Creates and manages Git worktrees with PowerShell scripts so separate issues and Copilot sessions each get an isolated branch, build and test environment. | microsoft/ | 4.7k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Enable, operate, and extend CAO's MCP Apps surface — the host-rendered fleet dashboard visible inside MCP App hosts (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, VS Code Copilot, Goose, Postman). | awslabs/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 7 | Create and evaluate VS Code file-based instructions (.instructions.md files). | dotnet/ | 15k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 8 | Shows a categorized, interactive menu of common Squad operations, such as install, upgrade and team management, and collects arguments before running anything. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 1 repo | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | Generates, edits and validates draw.io files with correct mxGraph XML, covering flowcharts, architecture, sequence, ER and UML class diagrams. | github/ | 40k | 1 repo | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Add a new Azure Functions sample/quickstart to the Template Manifest. | Azure/ | 362 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 11 | A skill your agent uses when shipping a roslynator release, rolling CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased], updating the VS Code extension changelog, creating a GitHub v release, or optionally tagging cli-v. | dotnet/ | 3.5k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 12 | Write, update, run, or debug vscode-java-dependency (Project Manager for Java) UI/E2E tests using AutoTest YAML plans. | microsoft/ | 199 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 13 | Review a specific vscode-containers pull request on demand from the CLI (or any interactive agent), the way a Container Tools maintainer would. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~900 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 14 | Detects and fixes accessibility issues in React/Fluent UI webviews. | microsoft/ | 200 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 15 | Critical patterns for cross-platform path handling in this VS Code extension. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | Install or update the M365 Agents Toolkit (ATK) CLI and VS Code extension. | microsoft/ | 1k | — | ~668 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 17 | Submit, monitor, analyze, and evaluate LeRobot imitation learning training jobs on OSMO with Azure ML MLflow integration and inference evaluation - Brought to you by microsoft/physical-ai-toolchain | microsoft/ | 122 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 18 | Reviews and authors telemetry code in this extension. An agent skill from microsoft/vscode-cosmosdb. | microsoft/ | 200 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Applies the fixes suggested by the Chat Customizations Evaluations extension to a prompt, agent, skill or instruction file, changing only what each diagnostic requires. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~506 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 20 | Java LSP navigation, source-range handoff and troubleshooting for type lookup and file outlines. | microsoft/ | 199 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 21 | Run E2E tests to verify complete user workflows like environment discovery, creation, and selection. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 22 | Build MCP servers for Copilot Chat using the OpenAI Apps SDK or MCP Apps SDK widget rendering support (any language). | microsoft/ | 1k | — | ~6.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | today |
| 23 | Run integration tests to verify that extension components work together correctly. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 24 | Backport changes (current branch, a PR, a branch, or specific commits/SHAs) onto a target branch (typically a release branch like rel/). | microsoft/ | 200 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 25 | Generate, explain, edit, and fix Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL (SQL API) queries. | microsoft/ | 200 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | today |
| 26 | Review a pull request in this repository (the vscode-containers / Container Tools extension) when the automated reviewer has already supplied the diff and changed files. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~415 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 27 | Creates VS Code custom agent files (.agent.md) for specialized AI personas with tools, instructions, and handoffs. | dotnet/ | 5.6k | 2 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | Run smoke tests to verify extension functionality in a real VS Code environment. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | Runs Chat Customizations Evaluations analysis for the active customization file and summarizes the findings from the Problems panel. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~135 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 30 | Azure Cosmos DB performance optimization and best practices guidelines for NoSQL, partitioning, queries, and SDK usage. | microsoft/ | 200 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 31 | A skill your agent uses when investigating, developing, debugging, testing, or reviewing Aspire VS Code extension behavior under extension/, including extension UI, command, debugger, RPC, DCP, MCP… | microsoft/ | 6.3k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 32 | Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 33 | Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 34 | Azure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 35 | Azure AI Text Analytics SDK for sentiment analysis, entity recognition, key phrases, language detection, PII, and healthcare NLP. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 36 | Azure AI Document Translation SDK for batch translation of documents with format preservation. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 37 | Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 38 | Azure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 39 | Build real-time voice AI applications using Azure AI Voice Live SDK (azure-ai-voicelive). | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | Azure App Configuration SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Azure Web PubSub Service SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 42 | Azure API Center Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 43 | Azure API Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 44 | Azure Bot Service Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 45 | Azure Fabric Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 46 | Azure Monitor Ingestion SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | Azure Queue Storage SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 48 | Add visual filters (chart-based) to SAP Fiori Elements filter bar/value help using CAP or ABAP RAP. | SAP/ | 158 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best Visual Studio Code skill?
Agent Browser CLI (official) from vercel-labs/agent-browser ranks first of the 367 Visual Studio Code skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 44k GitHub stars, 24 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 864 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Electron App Automation and Microsoft Skill Creator.
Is there an official Visual Studio Code skill?
129 of the 367 Visual Studio Code skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Agent Browser CLI, Electron App Automation, Microsoft Skill Creator, Make Custom Agent, Git Worktree Manager and 124 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.