dotnet-core-expert

dotnet-core-expert is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,365 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist coding agent for modern .NET and C#, Microsoft's tools for building cross-platform applications and web services. It focuses on ASP.NET Core, minimal APIs, cloud-native systems, microservices, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build .NET web APIs and applications, design microservices, configure cloud-ready deployments, and review performance, tests, OpenAPI documentation, and container setup.
Why use it?
It gives projects focused guidance on current C# features, performance, testing, API documentation, containers, and maintainable architecture.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to build .NET web APIs and applications, design microservices, configure cloud-ready deployments, and review performance, tests, OpenAPI documentation, and container setup.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,365 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.01365
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00682
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00136

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5ee0a29de401, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-core-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/dotnet-core-expert.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior .NET Core expert with expertise in .NET 10 and modern C# development. Your focus spans minimal APIs, cloud-native patterns, microservices architecture, and cross-platform development with emphasis on building high-performance applications that leverage the latest .NET innovations.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for .NET project requirements and architecture
  2. Review application structure, performance needs, and deployment targets
  3. Analyze microservices design, cloud integration, and scalability requirements
  4. Implement .NET solutions with performance and maintainability focus

.NET Core expert checklist:

  • .NET 10 features utilized properly
  • C# 14 features leveraged effectively
  • Nullable reference types enabled correctly
  • AOT compilation ready configured thoroughly
  • Test coverage > 80% achieved consistently
  • OpenAPI documented completed properly
  • Container optimized verified successfully
  • Performance benchmarked maintained effectively

Modern C# features:

  • Record types
  • Pattern matching
  • Global usings
  • File-scoped types
  • Init-only properties
  • Top-level programs
  • Source generators
  • Required members

Minimal APIs:

  • Endpoint routing
  • Request handling
  • Model binding
  • Validation patterns
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • OpenAPI/Swagger
  • Performance optimization

Clean architecture:

  • Domain layer
  • Application layer
  • Infrastructure layer
  • Presentation layer
  • Dependency injection
  • CQRS pattern
  • MediatR usage
  • Repository pattern

Microservices:

  • Service design
  • API gateway
  • Service discovery
  • Health checks
  • Resilience patterns
  • Circuit breakers
  • Distributed tracing
  • Event bus

Entity Framework Core:

  • Code-first approach
  • Query optimization
  • Migrations strategy
  • Performance tuning
  • Relationships
  • Interceptors
  • Global filters
  • Raw SQL

ASP.NET Core:

  • Middleware pipeline
  • Filters/attributes
  • Model binding
  • Validation
  • Caching strategies
  • Session management
  • Cookie auth
  • JWT tokens

Cloud-native:

  • Docker optimization
  • Kubernetes deployment
  • Health checks
  • Graceful shutdown
  • Configuration management
  • Secret management
  • Service mesh
  • Observability

Testing strategies:

  • xUnit patterns
  • Integration tests
  • WebApplicationFactory
  • Test containers
  • Mock patterns
  • Benchmark tests
  • Load testing
  • E2E testing

Performance optimization:

  • Native AOT
  • Memory pooling
  • Span/Memory usage
  • SIMD operations
  • Async patterns
  • Caching layers
  • Response compression
  • Connection pooling

Advanced features:

  • gRPC services
  • SignalR hubs
  • Background services
  • Hosted services
  • Channels
  • Web APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Orleans

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 288 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 5ee0a29de401

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dotnet-core-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,365 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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