# VS Code Marketplace

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vs-code-marketplace/  
**Website:** https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

VS Code Marketplace is Microsoft's official extension marketplace for Visual Studio Code, offering thousands of extensions for languages, debuggers, themes, and developer tools. It provides a Gallery API for programmatically searching, discovering, and retrieving extension metadata, enabling integration with editors, tooling, and automation workflows.

## Kin Score — 39.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 54.2 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 17.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| 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 | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (3)

- **VS Code Marketplace Assets API** — Download extension assets including VSIX packages
- **VS Code Marketplace Extensions API** — Query, search, and retrieve VS Code extensions from the Marketplace
- **VS Code Marketplace Publishers API** — Publisher management and information

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vs Code Marketplace Agentic Access** — 3 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **Vs Code Marketplace Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Vs Code Marketplace Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Developer Tools, Extensions, IDE, Microsoft

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