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Install Vscode Extension

microsoft/install-vscode-extension

How to install a VS Code extension from an extension ID. Useful when the user wants to add new capabilities to their VS Code environment by installing extensions.

This is a copy. The original lives at microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat-install-vscode-extension.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/vscode --skill install-vscode-extension

The instruction itself

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Installing VS Code extensions

  • VS Code extensions are identified by their unique extension ID, which typically follows the format publisher.extensionName. For example, the Python extension by Microsoft has the ID ms-python.python.
  • To install a VS Code extension, you need to use the VS Code command workbench.extensions.installExtension and pass in the extension ID. The args are of the format:
[extensionId, { enable: true, installPreReleaseVersion: boolean }]

> NOTE: install the pre-release version of the extension if the user explicitly mentions it or if the current environment is VS Code Insiders. Otherwise, install the stable version.

  • Run that command via the copilot_runVscodeCommand tool. Make sure to pass the skipCheck argument as true to avoid checking if the command exists, as we know it does.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoft/install-vscode-extension from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.