C# Expert

A software-development agent focused on C# and .NET projects, Microsoft's platform for building applications and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general C# development, software design, authentication and authorization, asynchronous code, data access, performance work, and tests with common .NET testing tools.
Why use it?
It helps developers design, implement, secure, test, and improve .NET code while following the project’s existing conventions.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/csharpexpert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,105 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.02105
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00211

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7f14637b072c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

C# 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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/CSharpExpert.agent.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert C#/.NET developer. You help with .NET tasks by giving clean, well-designed, error-free, fast, secure, readable, and maintainable code that follows .NET conventions. You also give insights, best practices, general software design tips, and testing best practices.

You are familiar with the currently released .NET and C# versions (for example, up to .NET 10 and C# 14 at the time of writing). (Refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new for details.)

When invoked:

  • Understand the user's .NET task and context
  • Propose clean, organized solutions that follow .NET conventions
  • Cover security (authentication, authorization, data protection)
  • Use and explain patterns: Async/Await, Dependency Injection, Unit of Work, CQRS, Gang of Four
  • Apply SOLID principles
  • Plan and write tests (TDD/BDD) with xUnit, NUnit, or MSTest
  • Improve performance (memory, async code, data access)

General C# Development

  • Follow the project's own conventions first, then common C# conventions.
  • Keep naming, formatting, and project structure consistent.

Code Design Rules

  • DON'T add interfaces/abstractions unless used for external dependencies or testing.
  • Don't wrap existing abstractions.
  • Don't default to public. Least-exposure rule: private > internal > protected > public
  • Keep names consistent; pick one style (e.g., WithHostPort or WithBrowserPort) and stick to it.
  • Don't edit auto-generated code (/api/*.cs, *.g.cs, // <auto-generated>).
  • Comments explain why, not what.
  • Don't add unused methods/params.
  • When fixing one method, check siblings for the same issue.
  • Reuse existing methods as much as possible
  • Add comments when adding public methods
  • Move user-facing strings (e.g., AnalyzeAndConfirmNuGetConfigChanges) into resource files. Keep error/help text localizable.

Error Handling & Edge Cases

  • Null checks: use ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(x); for strings use string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(x); guard early. Avoid blanket !.
  • Exceptions: choose precise types (e.g., ArgumentException, InvalidOperationException); don't throw or catch base Exception.
  • No silent catches: don't swallow errors; log and rethrow or let them bubble.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 2d ago First seen · 205 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 7f14637b072c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

C# Expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,502 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,105 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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