Use when making code changes to ensure they pass VS Code's hygiene checks. Covers the pre-commit hook, unicode restrictions, string quoting rules, copyright headers, indentation, formatting, ESLint, and stylelint. Run the hygiene check before declaring work complete.
Quickly install hygiene AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: microsoft/vscode.
VS Code runs a hygiene check as a git pre-commit hook. Commits will be rejected if hygiene fails.
Always run the pre-commit hygiene check before declaring work complete. This catches issues that would block a commit.
This executes node --experimental-strip-types build/hygiene.ts, which scans only staged files (from git diff --cached).
Use when making code changes to ensure they pass VS Code's hygiene checks. Covers the pre-commit hook, unicode restrictions, string quoting rules, copyright headers, indentation, formatting, ESLint, and stylelint. Run the hygiene check before declaring work complete. Source: microsoft/vscode.
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npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/vscode --skill hygieneUse when making code changes to ensure they pass VS Code's hygiene checks. Covers the pre-commit hook, unicode restrictions, string quoting rules, copyright headers, indentation, formatting, ESLint, and stylelint. Run the hygiene check before declaring work complete. Source: microsoft/vscode.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/vscode --skill hygiene Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode