diff --git a/appendix b/appendix
index 7fc349d..a13fbd7 100644
--- a/appendix
+++ b/appendix
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.maintainers="eli.holmes@noaa.gov"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.author="eli.holmes@noaa.gov"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/nmfs-opensci/py-rocket-base
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="JupyterHub image with Python 3.11 and Tidyverse based R 4.4 and RStudio"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses=Apache2.0
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.version=2024.11.06
+
 USER root
 
 # Clean up extra files in ${REPO_DIR}
@@ -48,6 +55,9 @@ RUN mkdir -p /pyrocket_scripts && cp -r ${REPO_DIR}/scripts/* /pyrocket_scripts/
 RUN chown -R root:staff /pyrocket_scripts && \
     chmod -R 775 /pyrocket_scripts
 
+# Some basic VS Code extensions
+RUN /pyrocket_scripts/install-vscode-ext.sh ${REPO_DIR}/vscode-extensions.txt
+
 # Convert NB_USER to ENV (from ARG) so that it passes to the child dockerfile
 ENV NB_USER=${NB_USER}
 
diff --git a/scripts/install-vscode-extensions.sh b/scripts/install-vscode-extensions.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f16db56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/install-vscode-extensions.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Install VSCode extensions. 
+# These get installed to $CONDA_PREFIX/envs/notebook/share/code-server/extensions/
+
+# Check if a filename argument is provided
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    echo "Error: install-vscode-extensions.sh requires an input file of extension names (typically called vscode-extensions.txt)." >&2
+    echo "Usage: RUN /pyrocket_scripts/install-vscode-extensions.sh <filename>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check the user and output which user the script is running as
+if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "Running install-vscode-extensions.sh as root."
+else
+    echo "Running install-vscode-extensions.sh as ${NB_USER}."
+fi
+
+ext_file="$1"
+
+# Verify that ext_file exists and is a file
+if [ ! -f "${ext_file}" ]; then
+    echo "  Error: Specified file '$ext_file' does not exist."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Install each extension listed in the file
+while IFS= read -r EXT; do
+    if code-server --install-extension "$EXT"; then
+        echo "  Successfully installed extension: $EXT"
+    else
+        echo "  Failed to install extension: $EXT" >&2
+    fi
+done < "$ext_file"
+
+echo "  Success! install-vscode-extensions.sh"
diff --git a/scripts/run-postbuild.sh b/scripts/run-postbuild.sh
index 9d93a87..fa18769 100644
--- a/scripts/run-postbuild.sh
+++ b/scripts/run-postbuild.sh
@@ -12,18 +12,19 @@ fi
 # Set SCRIPT_FILE to the provided argument
 SCRIPT_FILE="$1"
 
+# Check the user and output which user the script is running as
+if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "Running run-postbuild.sh as root."
+else
+    echo "Running run-postbuild.sh as ${NB_USER}."
+fi
+
 # Verify that SCRIPT_FILE exists and is a file
 if [ ! -f "${SCRIPT_FILE}" ]; then
     echo "  Error: Specified script file '${SCRIPT_FILE}' does not exist."
     exit 1
 fi
 
-# Check the user and output which user the script is running as
-if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
-    echo "  Running run-postbuild.sh as root."
-else
-    echo "  Running run-postbuild.sh as ${NB_USER}."
-fi
 
 # Make the script executable and run it
 chmod +x "${SCRIPT_FILE}"
diff --git a/vscode-extensions.txt b/vscode-extensions.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c64943d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vscode-extensions.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ms-python.python
+ms-toolsai.jupyter
+quarto.quarto