Vscode Doctor includes pricing or quota commentary; 6 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 3,061 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Vscode Doctor sits in the Dev Tools category under the ide-editor sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
Diagnose editor performance from the current machine state. Do not import old observations, fixed paths, fixed extension names, fixed OS bugs, or fixed generated-directory lists into the diagnosis.
Vscode Doctor is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ide-editor sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/vscode-doctor/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user reports editor lag, typing delay, UI freezes, extension host stalls, file watcher noise, high editor CPU/RSS, uses VS Code/Cursor as a file browser over a large folder, or wants a safe editor performance audit.
The Vscode Doctor Claude Code skill is built for developers, power users, and teams automating repetitive workflows and improving developer experience. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/vscode-doctor curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/vscode-doctor/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/vscode-doctor/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/vscode-doctor/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/vscode-doctor/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\vscode-doctor\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/vscode-doctor/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Vscode Doctor is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Dev Tools category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{vscode-doctor-2026,
author = {majiayu000},
title = {Vscode Doctor [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/vscode-doctor/}
}Browse all Dev Tools skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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