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.NET Agent Skills
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, generating, analyzing, and improving .NET tests: test execution, filtering, platform detection, coverage, testability, and MSTest workflows. |
| dotnet-test-migration | Skills and an orchestrator agent for migrating .NET test frameworks and platforms: MSTest and xUnit version upgrades, xUnit-to-MSTest conversion, and VSTest to Microsoft.Testing.Platform. |
| 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
- Launch Copilot CLI or Claude Code
- Add the marketplace:
/plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills- Install a plugin:
/plugin install <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills- Restart to load the new plugins
- View available skills:
/skills- View available agents:
/agents- Update plugin (on demand):
/plugin update <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skillsVS 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.
// settings.json
{
"chat.plugins.enabled": true,
"chat.plugins.marketplaces": ["dotnet/skills"]
}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:
- Open the marketplace panel in Cursor
- Search for
.NETor browse cursor.com/marketplace - Install the desired plugins
For local development or unpublished changes, import plugins from a local checkout:
- Copy or symlink your local checkout to
~/.cursor/plugins/local/dotnet-agent-skills - 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.
#### Plugin marketplace (recommended)
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.
- Add the marketplace:
codex plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills- Launch Codex and open the plugin browser:
/plugins- Browse the
dotnet-agent-skillstab and install the desired plugins. - 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/<plugin>/skills/<skill-name>Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines and how to add a new plugin.
License
See LICENSE for details.