diff --git a/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/README.md b/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/README.md
index c3fbd6e47..ea07bf277 100644
--- a/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/README.md
+++ b/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The Concourse editor automatically activates when the name of the  `.yml` file y
 follows a certain pattern:
 
   - `**/*pipeline*.yml` : activates support for editing pipelines
-  - `**/tasks/*.yml` : activates support for editing tasks.
+  - `**/tasks/*.yml` | `**/*task.yml` : activates support for editing tasks.
   
 You can also define your own patterns and map them to the language-ids `concourse-pipeline-yaml` 
 or `concourse-task-yaml` by defining `files.associations` in workspace settings. 
diff --git a/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/package.json b/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/package.json
index ac53585c3..9fbfa5be0 100644
--- a/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/package.json
+++ b/vscode-extensions/vscode-concourse/package.json
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
           "Concourse Task"
         ],
         "filenamePatterns": [
-          "*task*.yml",
+          "*task.yml",
           "**/tasks/*.yml"
         ],
         "firstLine": "^#(\\s)*task(\\s)*",