I was looking for a reference to the instance of markdown-it after all plugins are configured so I can use it to render markdown in my printing extension instead of duplicating the rendering pipeline.

Rummaging through the codebase I found MarkdownEngine and its render method, and this is exactly what I need but there is no mention of this in the API page and doesn't seem to be any reliable way to reference it.

If this actually is supported and I just failed to RTFM then feel free to be ironic at me in my Stack Overflow question on this topic.

I think the place for it is as a property vscode.env.markdownEngine alongside the clipboard object.