VS Code: An extensible code editor supporting various AI assistant extensions, requiring manual setup rather than a universal agent file format. AGENTS.md records 245,457 monthly visits with +5.7% month-over-month growth and Free pricing. VS Code records 7,397,370 monthly visits with -3.8% growth and Freemium pricing.
An open Markdown convention for telling coding agents how your project works
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | agents.md | code.visualstudio.com |
| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 245.46K (245,457) | 7.4M (7,397,370) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +13.15K (+5.7%) | -288.8K (-3.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (18.1%) | 🇺🇸 United States (18.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 156.87K | 2.17M |
| User Rating | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
An open Markdown convention for telling coding agents how your project works
There are no required fields or special syntax. Use any headings you like and the agent parses the text you provide.
One AGENTS.md works across dozens of coding agents such as Codex, Cursor, Jules, Aider, Gemini CLI, Zed and Copilot.
Drop extra AGENTS.md files into subpackages; agents read the nearest file in the directory tree, so local instructions take precedence.
Keeps human-facing READMEs concise while giving agents the build, test and convention details they actually need.
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
Agents open the repository, form a plan, edit multiple files and explain the changes so you can review each diff before accepting it. You can also run several agents in parallel to push a backlog forward.
Point the editor at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or open-weight models, or bring your own key. Pick the Copilot, Claude or Codex harness that matches how you like to work.
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS work out of the box, and Marketplace extensions add IntelliSense, linting, refactoring and debuggers for Python, Java, C++, Go, Rust and more.
Integrated terminal, source control, debugger, testing, Jupyter notebooks, an integrated browser and Dev Containers all live in one window, so you stay close to the code.
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SpecialistCatalogs Model Context Protocol servers for external data integration, whereas AGENTS.md standardizes markdown guidelines for repository coding agents.
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