What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
See and steer everything your AI builds. Specs 60-68% leaner, same correctness. Live pipeline, per-phase timing, and living specs for GitHub SpecKit with Copilot, Claude, Gemini, and more.
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 25 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| assistant | — | #307of 651↓7 7d |
| claude | — | #356of 1,351↓27 7d |
19 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
114 releases · first published Dec 2025
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
SpecKit Companion’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.