PluginStatsTasks installs statistics
By actboy168 (2 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other
Load VSCode Tasks into Status Bar.
Tasks has 167,845 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1725 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 17 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.71 / 5 from 17 ratings
About Tasks
tasks
This extension loads VSCode tasks into status bar.
Options
You can hide some tasks with the following options directly in tasks.json:
You can set the label of the statusbar:
You can embed icons in the text by leveraging the syntax: $(icon-name). More details in icons-in-labels and octicons
You can set the foreground color of the statusbar:
You can set the tooltip of the statusbar:
You can enable statusbar items based on the file in the active editor using the filePattern attribute, causing the statusbar item to be hidden when the active file does not match the specified pattern. If the filePattern attribute is not provided, the statusbar item will not be hidden based on the active file. Also, if it is provided but is invalid or causes an error during validation, the statusbar item will not be displayed. (Note that filePattern only applies to statusbar items that have not been otherwise effectively set as hidden through tasks.json or settings.json).
For instance, the following would only display the "Test" button when a filename beginning with test_ is the active editor:
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- json
- statusbar
- task
Where Tasks sits in the listing
Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=actboy168.tasks. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.