# Microsoft Visual Studio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-visual-studio/  
**Website:** https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building applications. It provides APIs for extending the IDE functionality, publishing extensions to the marketplace, and building VS Code extensions.

## Kin Score — 21.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 7.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Visual Studio Extensibility API** — The Visual Studio Extensibility API enables developers to create extensions that customize and extend Visual Studio IDE functionality. Extensions can add custom tool windows, co...
- **Visual Studio Marketplace API** — The Visual Studio Marketplace API provides access to the extension marketplace for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Azure DevOps. Developers can search extensions, retrieve metadata,...
- **VS Code Extension API** — The VS Code Extension API enables developers to build extensions for Visual Studio Code. It provides APIs for language support, debugging, source control, terminal integration, ...

## Security (1)

- **Microsoft Visual Studio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Visual Studio Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Developer Tools, Extensions, IDE, Microsoft, VS Code

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-visual-studio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.