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microsoft/rayfinSkill
Launch and automate VS Code Insiders with the Copilot Chat extension using agent-browser via Chrome DevTools Protocol. Use when you need to interact with the VS Code UI, automate the chat panel, test the extension UI, or take screenshots. Triggers include 'automate VS Code', 'interact with chat', 'test the UI', 'take a screenshot', 'launch with debugging'.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 645 stars are split between them (about 65 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 67/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 21, 2026 at commit 0979439a7a08, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onelaunch-vscode-extension microsoft/rayfin · Skill | 67 | ★ 645 | ≈96 always | 17d ago |
| icon-vscode Kilo-Org/kilocode · Skill Both about vscode and extension | 85 | ★ 28k | ≈25 always | 16d ago |
| vscode-release yoshiko-pg/difit · Skill Both about vscode and extension | 69 | ★ 3.3k | ≈59 always | 2mo ago |
| vscode badlogic/pi-skills · Skill Both about vscode and vs | 64 | ★ 2.6k | ≈28 always | 5mo ago |
| publish-extension cline/cline · Skill Both about extension and vscode | 90 | ★ 71k | ≈108 always | 16d ago |
| extension-dev quangpl/browser-extension-skills · Skill Both about extension and dev | 52 | ★ 62 | ≈40 always | 1mo ago |