dotnet/skills

A .NET diagnostic skill for performance investigations, providing AI agents with guidance on profiling, tracing, and analyzing .NET application performance issues using dotnet-diag tools.

A skill from the official .NET team's curated agent skill collection, part of the dotnet-data plugin covering Entity Framework and data access tasks including query optimization, performance tuning, and best practices for .NET data operations.

Part of Microsoft's official `dotnet-test` plugin — an agent skill for running, diagnosing, and migrating .NET tests, covering test execution, filtering, platform detection (Copilot CLI / Claude Code / Codex / VS Code), and MSTest workflows.

Official .NET team skills for AI coding agents covering MSBuild build diagnostics, performance optimization, NuGet package management, Entity Framework data access, .NET MAUI, AI/ML integration, testing, and framework upgrade migrations.

A skill from the official .NET team's curated agent skill collection, part of the dotnet-msbuild plugin providing comprehensive MSBuild and .NET build guidance including failure diagnosis, performance optimization, code quality, and project modernization.

Official Microsoft .NET skill for **pragmatic test anti-pattern review** of MSTest/xUnit/NUnit/TUnit code — flags no-assertions/swallowed exceptions/always-true asserts (Critical), `Thread.Sleep`/`DateTime.Now`/over-mocking/implementation coupling (High), poor naming/magic values/duplicate tests (Medium), and basic hygiene (Low) with actionable fixes; defers to `exp-test-smell-detection` for deep academic audits.

A skill from the official .NET team's curated agent skill collection, part of the dotnet-diag plugin covering .NET performance investigations, debugging, and incident analysis including trace collection and diagnostics.

A skill from the official .NET team's curated agent skill collection, part of the dotnet-msbuild plugin covering comprehensive MSBuild and .NET build skills including failure diagnosis, performance optimization, code quality, and project modernization.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection, this skill provides guidance for handling C# scripting tasks within the .NET ecosystem, complementing the core dotnet plugin for common .NET coding workflows.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills repository, providing the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents covering common .NET tasks, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, testing, data access, MAUI, AI/ML, ASP.NET, and project upgrades.

A custom agent from the .NET team's official skills repository that handles code testing workflows, including running, diagnosing, and migrating .NET tests across frameworks, with support for test execution, filtering, platform detection, and MSTest workflows.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills repository, providing the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents covering common .NET tasks, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, testing, data access, MAUI, AI/ML, ASP.NET, and project upgrades.

Part of the .NET team's official agent skills collection, this skill guides AI coding agents in creating new skills for the .NET ecosystem following the Agent Skills specification.

Systematically migrate .NET 9 projects/solutions to .NET 10 — bump `TargetFramework`, resolve C# 14 / ASP.NET Core 10 / EF Core 10 breaking changes, update Dockerfiles (Debian→Ubuntu), and handle SYSLIB0058-SYSLIB0062 obsoletions.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills repository, providing the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents covering common .NET tasks, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, testing, data access, MAUI, AI/ML, ASP.NET, and project upgrades.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents diagnose build performance issues in .NET projects, covering failure analysis, optimization, and modernization.

Official Microsoft .NET skill for migrating a .NET 10 project/solution to **.NET 11** — detects SDK type, package references, Docker usage, and crypto/compression/TAR/NamedPipe usage; updates `TargetFramework` to `net11.0`, resolves C# 15 compiler, core library, SDK/MSBuild, EF Core 11, and platform breaking changes (x86-64-v2, Arm64 LSE); commits at each logical boundary.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills repository, providing the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents covering common .NET tasks, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, testing, data access, MAUI, AI/ML, ASP.NET, and project upgrades.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents establish build performance baselines for .NET projects, enabling comparison and optimization of build times.

Part of the .NET team's official agent skills for migrating and upgrading .NET projects, this skill helps AI coding agents migrate code to use C# nullable reference types across framework versions.

Part of the .NET team's official MAUI skills, this skill helps AI coding agents diagnose and troubleshoot .NET MAUI development environment issues, including setup verification and diagnostics.

A .NET skill from Microsoft's official dotnet/skills repository that guides AI coding agents through configuring OpenTelemetry instrumentation for .NET applications, enabling distributed tracing, metrics, and logging.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills repository, providing the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents covering common .NET tasks, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, testing, data access, MAUI, AI/ML, ASP.NET, and project upgrades.

Part of the .NET team's official diagnostic skills, this skill helps AI coding agents set up and run microbenchmarks for .NET performance investigations using tools like BenchmarkDotNet.

Part of the .NET diagnostics skill set, this skill helps AI agents collect and analyze memory dumps for .NET application performance investigations and incident analysis.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents analyze MSBuild binary log (binlog) files to diagnose build failures and identify root causes in .NET projects.

A .NET agent skill from Microsoft's official collection that helps AI coding agents calculate and analyze CRAP (Change Risk Anti-Patterns) scores to identify risky code sections that need testing or refactoring.

.NET 8 → .NET 9 migration skill that upgrades a project's `TargetFramework` to `net9.0` and systematically resolves every breaking change — BinaryFormatter removal, SYSLIB0054–SYSLIB0057, C# 13 / ASP.NET Core 9 / EF Core 9 changes, params-span overload resolution, HttpClientFactory SocketsHttpHandler updates — with commits at each logical boundary.

Part of the .NET NuGet skill set, this skill guides AI agents through setting up trusted publishing workflows for NuGet packages with secure, token-free CI/CD publishing.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents work with incremental build optimization in .NET projects for faster build times and efficient compilation.

Part of the .NET team's official agent skills collection, providing guidance for creating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers using C#, following the Agent Skills standard at agentskills.io.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents generate MSBuild binary log (binlog) files for detailed build analysis and diagnostics in .NET projects.

Part of the .NET team's official agent skills collection, providing guidance for testing MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers built with C#, following the Agent Skills standard at agentskills.io.

Part of the .NET core skills, this skill helps AI agents diagnose and resolve bin/obj folder clashes in .NET projects that can cause build failures and stale assembly references.

Part of the .NET team's official agent skills collection, this skill guides AI coding agents in creating custom agents for the .NET ecosystem, supporting specialized agentic workflows and task automation.

Part of the .NET core skills, this skill helps AI agents handle source-generated files in .NET projects, including proper configuration of build processes and file inclusion.

Official Microsoft .NET skill for **writing MSTest tests** — part of the `dotnet-test` plugin covering test execution, filtering, platform detection, and MSTest-specific workflows within the .NET team's curated collection of agent skills for common .NET development tasks.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents resolve and manage project references in .NET solutions, handling dependency chains and reference conflicts.

Part of the official .NET agent skills collection curated by the .NET team for coding agents. Provides guidance on .NET testing frameworks, test patterns, and best practices for writing reliable automated tests.

Part of the .NET team's official diagnostic skills, this skill helps AI coding agents debug CLR activation issues in .NET applications, diagnosing runtime loading and initialization problems.

Part of the official .NET agent skills, this skill provides MCP-based C# debugging guidance for AI coding agents, covering diagnostics, performance analysis, and incident investigation.

Part of the .NET team's official upgrade skills, this skill helps AI coding agents migrate code away from Thread.Abort patterns when upgrading .NET projects across framework versions.

Part of the .NET team's official MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents work with the MSBuild server for improved build performance and process management in .NET projects.

Part of the .NET team's official NuGet/MSBuild skills, this skill helps AI coding agents convert .NET projects to Central Package Management (CPM) for unified dependency version control across solutions.

Official .NET team curated skills and agents covering core .NET coding, Entity Framework data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, MAUI, AI/ML, template engine, testing, and ASP.NET Core web development.

A .NET skill from Microsoft's official dotnet/skills repository that helps AI coding agents analyze and interpret code coverage data, supporting .NET performance investigation and debugging workflows.

An ASP.NET Core skill from the official .NET team's agent skills collection that guides AI agents through implementing file upload endpoints using Minimal API patterns following best practices from the .NET documentation.

Part of the .NET team's official Template Engine skills, this skill helps AI coding agents discover available .NET project templates for scaffolding new projects and solutions.

Part of the .NET team's official Template Engine skills, this skill helps AI coding agents instantiate .NET project templates, scaffolding new projects from discovered templates with proper configuration.

Part of the .NET team's official agent skills collection, providing guidance for publishing MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers built with C#, following the Agent Skills standard at agentskills.io.

Part of the .NET team's official diagnostic skills, this skill helps AI coding agents symbolicate Android tombstone crash dumps for .NET applications, aiding in native crash analysis and debugging.

A .NET agent skill from Microsoft's official collection that guides AI coding agents through migrating test projects from VSTest to the Microsoft Testing Platform (MTP), covering breaking changes and best practices.

A skill from the official .NET agent skills repository for creating and running skill tests, part of a comprehensive suite covering .NET development tasks including Entity Framework, MSBuild, NuGet, MAUI, AI/ML, and ASP.NET Core.

Part of the official .NET agent skills, this skill guides AI assistants in authoring .NET project templates with proper structure, configuration, and best practices.

Part of the official .NET agent skills, this skill guides AI assistants through migrating MSTest v1/v2 projects to MSTest v3 with proper API changes and best practices.

Part of the official .NET agent skills, this skill guides AI assistants through migrating MSTest v3 projects to MSTest v4 with proper API changes and best practices.

Part of the official .NET MAUI skills plugin for AI coding agents, providing guidance for .NET MAUI cross-platform app development including environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.

Part of the .NET team's curated Agent Skills collection, providing guidance for migrating xUnit test projects from v2 to v3, alongside 11 other plugins covering .NET development, diagnostics, NuGet, MAUI, AI/ML, and ASP.NET Core.

The official .NET team skill collection for AI coding agents, covering core .NET tasks, data access (Entity Framework), performance diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet package management, framework upgrades, MAUI, AI/ML integration, ASP.NET Core, and testing — compatible with Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, and Codex CLI.

A .NET agent skill from the dotnet-test plugin that provides guidance on test filter syntax for running, diagnosing, and filtering .NET tests, including platform detection and MSTest workflow patterns.

Part of the official .NET agent skills collection curated by the .NET team for coding agents. Provides guidance on .NET platform detection and OS-specific code patterns for building cross-platform applications.

Part of the official .NET skills collection for AI coding agents, providing template discovery, project scaffolding, and template authoring guidance for the .NET Template Engine.

Part of the official .NET MAUI skills plugin for AI coding agents, providing guidance for .NET MAUI cross-platform app development including environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.

A .NET MAUI CollectionView skill from the official .NET team's curated agent skills repository, providing guidance for .NET MAUI development including environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting for cross-platform mobile and desktop apps.

A .NET MAUI shell navigation skill from the official .NET Agent Skills repository, part of the dotnet-maui plugin that provides guidance for environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting in .NET MAUI development.

A .NET skill that guides AI agents in generating testability wrappers around static or sealed types, enabling unit testing of code that depends on hard-to-mock .NET framework APIs.

Part of the .NET Agent Skills collection by Microsoft, providing curated skills and custom agents for .NET coding tasks. Includes plugins for core .NET development, data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, upgrades, MAUI, AI/ML, templating, testing, and ASP.NET Core.

Part of the .NET upgrade skills collection that helps AI agents migrate and upgrade .NET projects across framework versions, language features, and compatibility targets, specifically handling static method to wrapper class migrations.

A skill from the .NET team's official agent skill collection that provides guidance for analyzing and symbolicating Apple crash reports in .NET performance investigations and debugging workflows.

A skill from the official .NET team's agent skills collection covering ASP.NET Core Web API development patterns, including middleware, endpoints, and API design — part of a curated set of .NET skills for coding agents across Copilot CLI and Claude Code.

Part of the official .NET MAUI skills plugin for AI coding agents, providing guidance for .NET MAUI cross-platform app development including environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.

Part of the official .NET MAUI skills plugin for AI coding agents, providing guidance for .NET MAUI cross-platform app development including environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.

A .NET MAUI development skill from the official .NET team curated collection, part of a comprehensive set covering core .NET tasks, data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, upgrades, AI/ML, template engine, testing, and ASP.NET Core development.

The official .NET team agent skills repository, providing curated skills and custom agents for .NET coding tasks across areas like data access, performance diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, MAUI, AI integration, and test workflows. Includes an accuracy and efficiency scoring dashboard to track skill performance over time.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills repository by Microsoft — a curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents covering .NET development, data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, framework upgrades, and MAUI.

The official .NET team agent skills repository, providing curated skills and custom agents for .NET coding tasks across areas like data access, performance diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, MAUI, AI integration, and test workflows. Includes an accuracy and efficiency scoring dashboard to track skill performance over time.

The .NET team's official curated set of agent skills for coding agents, covering core .NET tasks, Entity Framework data access, performance diagnostics, MSBuild optimization, and NuGet package management with accuracy and efficiency scoring dashboards.

The .NET team's curated collection of agent skills covering core .NET coding tasks, data access, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, MAUI, AI/ML integration, and test execution. Designed for coding agents to handle common .NET development workflows with accuracy and efficiency tracking via a public dashboard.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection from Microsoft, providing curated skills and custom agents for common .NET coding tasks including data access, Entity Framework, and NuGet management.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection, this skill provides guidance for configuring authentication and authorization in .NET applications using ASP.NET Core identity patterns.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection from Microsoft, providing curated skills and custom agents for common .NET coding tasks including builds, NuGet, diagnostics, and framework upgrades.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection, this skill helps coordinate multiple UI components in .NET applications, managing component interactions and state synchronization patterns.

The .NET team's official collection of agent skills and plugins for AI coding assistants, covering core .NET development, Entity Framework data access, diagnostics and debugging, MSBuild, NuGet package management, project upgrades, MAUI, AI/ML integration, template engine, testing, ASP.NET Core, and Blazor component authoring.

Official .NET agent skills covering core coding, Entity Framework, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, .NET upgrade, MAUI, AI/ML, testing, and template engine tasks across the .NET ecosystem.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection, this skill guides the implementation of user input collection patterns in .NET applications, including forms, validation, and data binding.

A skill from the .NET team's curated agent skills repository, which provides a collection of core .NET skills and custom agents for coding tasks covering areas such as data access, diagnostics, build systems, NuGet packaging, framework upgrades, MAUI development, AI/ML integration, and testing.

Part of the official .NET Agent Skills collection, this skill provides guidance for authoring MSBuild targets and custom build logic in .NET projects for advanced build pipeline customization.

Part of the .NET Agent Skills collection, which provides core skills and custom agents for .NET development including coding tasks, data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, upgrades, MAUI, and AI integration.

Part of the .NET team's curated skills repository, providing core skills and custom agents for .NET development tasks including build management, testing, diagnostics, NuGet packaging, and framework upgrades.

The .NET team's official curated set of core skills and custom agents for AI coding agents, covering .NET development, Entity Framework data access, performance diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet package management, MAUI, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET 11 features. Includes an accuracy and efficiency scoring dashboard.

Part of the official .NET team's curated agent skills for coding agents, covering core .NET development, Entity Framework, MSBuild, NuGet, diagnostics, and project upgrades with accuracy and efficiency scoring via an automated dashboard.

The official .NET team's curated collection of agent skills and plugins covering core .NET development, Entity Framework data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, project upgrades, MAUI, AI/ML, and testing workflows.

The .NET team's official curated set of agent skills and plugins for coding agents. Includes 13 plugins covering core .NET, Entity Framework, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, project upgrades, MAUI, AI/ML, templates, testing, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET 11 features.

A skill from the official .NET team's curated skill set for coding agents that handles test grading and evaluation, part of a comprehensive collection covering .NET development, diagnostics, NuGet, MSBuild, MAUI, AI/ML, and upgrades.

Part of the .NET team's official collection of agent skills and custom agents for coding agents, covering core .NET tasks, data access, diagnostics, MSBuild, NuGet, testing, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and project upgrades. Includes accuracy and efficiency scoring via a built-in dashboard.

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