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.NET Agent Skills

Dashboard

This repository contains the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents. For information about the Agent Skills standard, see agentskills.io.

📊 Dashboard - Accuracy and efficiency scoring trends for contained plugins (https://dotnet.github.io/skills/)

What's Included

Plugin Description
dotnet Collection of core .NET skills for handling common .NET coding tasks.
dotnet-data Skills for .NET data access and Entity Framework related tasks.
dotnet-diag Skills for .NET performance investigations, debugging, and incident analysis.
dotnet-msbuild Comprehensive MSBuild and .NET build skills: failure diagnosis, performance optimization, code quality, and modernization.
dotnet-nuget NuGet and .NET package management: dependency management and modernization.
dotnet-upgrade Skills for migrating and upgrading .NET projects across framework versions, language features, and compatibility targets.
dotnet-maui Skills for .NET MAUI development: environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
dotnet-ai AI and ML skills for .NET: technology selection, LLM integration, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP, and classic ML with ML.NET.
dotnet-template-engine .NET Template Engine skills: template discovery, project scaffolding, and template authoring.
dotnet-test Skills for running, diagnosing, and migrating .NET tests: test execution, filtering, platform detection, and MSTest workflows.
dotnet-aspnetcore ASP.NET Core web development skills including middleware, endpoints, real-time communication, and API patterns.
dotnet-blazor Skills for Blazor development: component authoring, interactivity, and web application patterns.
dotnet11 Skills for new .NET 11 APIs and language features.

Installation

🚀 Plugins - Copilot CLI / Claude Code

  1. Launch Copilot CLI or Claude Code
  2. Add the marketplace:
/plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills
  1. Install a plugin:
/plugin install <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills
  1. Restart to load the new plugins
  2. View available skills:
  3. View available agents:
  4. Update plugin (on demand):
/plugin update <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills

VS Code / VS Code Insiders (Preview)

Important

VS Code plugin support is a preview feature and subject to change. You may need to enable it first.

Once configured, type /plugins in Copilot Chat or use the @agentPlugins filter in Extensions to browse and install plugins from the marketplace.

Cursor

This repository is a Cursor plugin marketplace. You can discover and install published plugins directly in Cursor:

  1. Open the marketplace panel in Cursor
  2. Search for .NET or browse cursor.com/marketplace
  3. Install the desired plugins

For local development or unpublished changes, import plugins from a local checkout:

  1. Copy or symlink your local checkout to ~/.cursor/plugins/local/dotnet-agent-skills
  2. Restart Cursor or run Developer: Reload Window

Codex CLI

Skills in this repository follow the agentskills.io open standard and are compatible with OpenAI Codex.

Codex CLI v0.121.0 and later supports a plugin marketplace. This repository ships a Codex-native marketplace manifest at .agents/plugins/marketplace.json, so you can register dotnet/skills as a marketplace and install plugins from it directly.

  1. Add the marketplace:
    codex plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills
  2. Launch Codex and open the plugin browser:
  3. Browse the dotnet-agent-skills tab and install the desired plugins.
  4. Update plugins on demand:
    codex plugin marketplace upgrade dotnet-agent-skills

Individual skills

You can also install individual skills using the skill-installer CLI with the GitHub URL:

$ skill-installer install https://github.com/dotnet/skills/tree/main/plugins//skills/

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines and how to add a new plugin.

License

See LICENSE for details.