customizations-in-the-agent-host
Architecture and hard-won debugging lessons for customization enablement (plugins, MCP servers, agents, skills, instructions) in the agent host. Use when changing how customizations are discovered, published, enabled/disabled, or handed to a provider SDK; when a customization shows the wrong enabled state in the UI; or when a disabled MCP server or plugin is still reaching the model.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "microsoft/vscode:.github/skills/customizations-in-the-agent-host" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode /tmp/vscode && ln -s /tmp/vscode/.github/skills/customizations-in-the-agent-host ~/.claude/skills/customizations-in-the-agent-hostFrom README
Customizations in the Agent Host Customizations are the plugins, MCP servers, agents, skills and instructions that an agent-host session exposes to a model. This skill covers enablement: how a customization's on/off state is decided, stored, published and enforced.
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