The VS Code Electron worker should opt out of experiments
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- electron, typescript, vscode
Research direction
Locate the VS Code Electron worker entry point and inspect how it participates in the experiments described in the issue. Confirm the available opt-out mechanism and verify that the worker no longer participates in those A/B tests; no file or test is named, so repository exploration is required.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Original author: @cedricvidal
The VS Code team runs A/B tests
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/07/06/optimizing-vscode-coding-harness-model-providers
This can screw our results.
We want to opt out
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 5
- Forks
- 5
- Avg merge
- 3d 5h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 26
Getting set up
First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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