This is the VSCode tasks.json file that I auto download and populate into new Sphinx documentation repos

sphinx-vscode-build-tasks.json

{
    // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558 
    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "Sphinx",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "make clean && make html",
            "script": "build",
            "path": ".",
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "problemMatcher": []
        }
    ]
}