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"clinyong.vscode-css-modules",
"akamud.vscode-caniuse",
"visualstudioexptteam.intellicode-api-usage-examples",
"pflannery.vscode-versionlens",
"legalfina.npm-version-lens",
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⚠️ Potential issue | 🔴 Critical

🧩 Analysis chain

🌐 Web query:

legalfina.npm-version-lens VS Code extension marketplace

💡 Result:

The VS Code Marketplace listing for Legalfina.npm-version-lens is “NPM Package Version Dropdown” (publisher: Legalfina). It shows inline, color-coded npm version indicators in package.json, provides a dropdown to pick any available version, and supports Ctrl/Cmd-click to open the package on npmjs.com. (marketplace.visualstudio.com)

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🌐 Web query:

Legalfina npm-version-lens VS Code downloads rating installation count last updated

💡 Result:

VS Code Marketplace stats (as of Feb 7, 2026)

Extension (publisher.id) Installs (Marketplace) Rating / reviews Last updated
NPM Package Version Dropdown (Legalfina.npm-version-lens) 5 installs (marketplace.visualstudio.com) (1 review) (average star rating not shown in the Marketplace HTML view we could access) (marketplace.visualstudio.com) Marketplace “last updated” date not visible in the accessible HTML; repo shows commits on Feb 7, 2026 (github.com)
Version Lens (pflannery.vscode-versionlens) 2,348,242 installs (marketplace.visualstudio.com) ≈ 4.58★ (and 90 reviews shown on Marketplace page) (vsixhub.com) Sep 19, 2025 (vsixhub.com)

Notes:

  • The Marketplace pages clearly expose install counts for both extensions. (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
  • For Version Lens, a numeric average rating and update date are available via VsixHub (mirrors Marketplace metadata). (vsixhub.com)

Citations:

Do not replace pflannery.vscode-versionlens with legalfina.npm-version-lens without further justification.

The new extension exists and has recent commits, but it has only 5 installs and 1 review compared to the prior extension's 2.3 million installs and 4.58★ rating (90 reviews). Recommending an untested extension with virtually no adoption to all contributors introduces significant risk. Either provide strong rationale for this downgrade or restore the prior extension.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents 
In @.vscode/extensions.json at line 11, The workspace recommendations replaced
the widely-used extension identifier "pflannery.vscode-versionlens" with
"legalfina.npm-version-lens", which is a downgrade in adoption and risk; revert
the change by restoring "pflannery.vscode-versionlens" in the extensions list
(or add justification in a PR comment explaining why
"legalfina.npm-version-lens" should replace it), ensuring the extensions JSON
contains the trusted "pflannery.vscode-versionlens" entry or a documented
rationale for the replacement.

"christian-kohler.npm-intellisense",
"biomejs.biome",
"rangav.vscode-thunder-client",
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