What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Lightweight Claude Code usage monitor for VS Code status bar.
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|
| anthropic | #440of 861↓23 7d | #193of 252↓8 7d |
| claude | #160of 3,507 | #395of 1,340↓19 7d |
12 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
2 releases · first published Jun 2026
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
My Claude Usage’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.