Guide for creating VS Code extensions and plugins from scratch through Marketplace publication. Use when developing a VS Code extension/plugin, adding commands or keybindings, building TreeView or Webview UI, publishing to Marketplace, or troubleshooting activation and packaging issues.
- Stars
- 26
- Version
- v1
- Copies
- 0
Overview
Waxell's checks found 3 findings to review, highest severity high.
- Highest severity
- high
- Findings
- 3
- What ran
- Static analysis
A clean result means nothing alarming in what is published, not a guarantee. How the checks work
We don't republish the skill's instructions. Read them on GitHub at the reviewed commit.
Security
Security scan
Checked 2 days ago
Result
Review findings Waxell's checks found 3 findings to review, highest severity high.
Checked with static analysis: servers it launches, packages it installs at runtime, scripts piped to a shell and bundled binaries. Nothing was run. How the checks work
Findings (3)
high · 3
- high
Tells Claude to install unpinned packages (yo, generator-code)
SKILL.md:36 · skill_risk:S2
- high
Tells Claude to install unpinned packages (typescript, @types/vscode)
SKILL.md:41 · skill_risk:S2
- high
Tells Claude to install unpinned packages (@vscode/test-cli, @vscode/test-electron)
references/testing.md:7 · skill_risk:S2
Versions
Version history
Each distinct content we have seen, newest first, with the verdict it got at the time.
One version so far: v1, seen 2026-11-03.
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