I’m using Settings Sync with my github account. Does anyone know if it is possible to access that data outside of VSCode itself? Is there some “settings” repo it creates on my behalf in github?

I’m not sure as I don’t use this, but maybe it’s in a gist?

I’ve checked both gists and normal repos. I can’t find a trace of it.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/main/docs/editor/settings-sync.md -- it uses a dedicated service to store settings, and just uses GH (or MS) for auth to identify a user for the service.

There have been community extensions that used private gists, but that's not how VS Code's built-in service does it.

Thanks @seancorfield. That’s exactly what I was trying to figure out. Not necessarily what I wanted to hear, but now at least I know what to expect.

Maybe you can reverse engineer the requests that VS Code issues?