Install Kickbacks.ai

The official extension, straight from us — one line in Claude Code or your terminal.

Heads up: our listing on the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace is temporarily unavailable while we deal with copycat extensions impersonating Kickbacks. Until Microsoft restores it, install the official, signed package directly from us below. It's the exact same extension — just hosted on our own infrastructure instead of the Marketplace.

Recommended: just run one line

Paste this into Claude Code — it'll run it for you — or drop it into any terminal. It downloads the signed extension and installs it in one step:

On Windows PowerShell:

Using Cursor (or another VS Code fork)? Swap code for cursor. If code isn't found, open VS Code → Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P) → "Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH", then retry. Once it installs, reload the window to activate it.

Prefer to do it by hand?

Download the signed package (a .vsix, hosted by us on Google Cloud Storage) and add it through the Extensions panel:

1. Open the Extensions view (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + X).
2. Click the ⋯ (More Actions) menu at the top of the panel.
3. Choose "Install from VSIX…" and pick the downloaded file.
4. Reload the window when prompted — and you're done.

Sign in & start earning

After it reloads, run "Kickbacks: Sign in" from the Command Palette (or click the Kickbacks status-bar item) to link your account. Then just keep coding — you'll start accruing credit automatically. New here? See how earnings work.