Publish VS Code Claude Code extension to VS Marketplace

Resolved ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 comments Opened Jun 2, 2025 by isidorn Closed Jun 25, 2025

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When a user setups up Claude Code from VS Code Terminal, you automatically install a Claude Code extension in VS Code (that acts as an MCP server to control VS Code).

It would be great if instead of downloading this .vsix from a location (or shiping it with your CLI) that you instead publish it to the VS Marketplace. Reasons being:

  • Transparency and security - users can nicely see the reviews and ratings of your extension, and you can provide additional info (like verified publisher)
  • Allows you to update the extension out of band (and vscode will nicely auto-update it)
  • Opens up a new funnel for your users. For example we would be happy to feature your extension on the VS Marketplace landing page https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/

Thank you ๐Ÿ™

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