Install Kickbacks.ai

The official extension, straight from us — just ask Claude Code to install it.

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.

Just ask your agent to install it

Paste this into Claude Code (or any coding agent) and let it do the rest — it'll download the signed extension and install it into your editor:

Install the Kickbacks.ai extension for me: download the signed VSIX from https://kickbacks.ai/vsix and install it into my editor (run code --install-extension on the downloaded file, or cursor --install-extension if I'm on Cursor), then reload the window.

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.

Make sure it's really us. Because imitators are floating around, verify the extension you installed is published by Kickbacksai with the identifier Kickbacksai.kickbacks-ai. The only official install link is kickbacks.ai/install (this page) — don't trust a VSIX from anywhere else.