Daily installs, search rank to position 1,000, competitors and alerts across the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX. History starts the day we first crawled, not the day you sign up.
Fastest-growing extensions relative to their own size: new installs over the last 7 days as a share of where they started. Minimum 10k installs and two months on the registry, so bundled giants and week-old launches don't crowd it out.
Decode ESP32 / ESP8266 crash dumps from serial port
Use 30+ frontier AI models (DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.1, Qwen3.7, MiMo V2.5, MiniMax M2.7, free Claude Opus, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5, Grok) in GitHub Copilot Chat. Bring Your Own Key, no Copilot Pro needed.
Ollama language model provider for VS Code.
GUI for Grok Build CLI (incl. Grok 4.6). Remote Control from your phone, voice control, multiple sessions, images and videos, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX. Works with SuperGrok, X Premium+, and xAI API key. Fair Source (FSL-1.1-MIT). Not affiliated with or endorsed by SpaceXAI (formerly xAI).
Mistral Vibe is an AI coding agent for VS Code that works across your whole project.
Language Support for Kotlin by JetBrains
Use DeepSeek V4 models in VS Code Copilot Chat with thinking effort presets & temperature presets, plus DeepSeek FIM inline completion
An independent, actively maintained fork of Todo Tree for VS Code: the familiar workflow, major new features, active fixes, benchmarked speedups of 696+ folds, modern compatibility.
From the journal
Practical guides and fresh observations from the extension ecosystem.

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Choose VS Code extension keywords with a five-step worksheet: relevance, how contested a phrase is, near-top-10 positions, competitor overlap and placement.
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Compare VS Code extension installs fairly: pick real peers, match dates, use window gains and percentages, handle decreases and gaps, and keep registries apart.
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A GitHub Actions workflow that builds one VSIX and publishes it to the Marketplace and Open VSX, with re-runs, pre-releases, targets and checks.
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