microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet

Five lessons, learn how to really apply AI to your .NET Applications

About the project

Generative AI for Beginners .NET is a hands-on course that teaches .NET developers to build applications using generative AI models and related tools. Its lessons use practical samples covering scenarios such as chat, audio transcription, agents, and local AI. The catalogue entries are add-ons associated with the course repository.

Latest release 2026-08-24 · 24 Aug 2026

25 files for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex and OpenCode: C# Expert, Agent Issues, Squad, Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet copilot-instructions.md and 21 more — 6,761 tokens loaded in every session.

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Instructions

Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet copilot-instructions.md .github/copilot-instructions.md A 1,390 tok
Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet AGENTS.md AGENTS.md A 5,371 tok

Skills

agent-collaboration .github/skills/agent-collaboration/SKILL.md A 22 tok
coordinator-init-mode .github/skills/coordinator-init-mode/SKILL.md A 98 tok
coordinator-response-mode .github/skills/coordinator-response-mode/SKILL.md A 79 tok
coordinator-source-of-truth .github/skills/coordinator-source-of-truth/SKILL.md A 86 tok
cross-squad-communication .github/skills/cross-squad-communication/SKILL.md A 25 tok
cross-squad .github/skills/cross-squad/SKILL.md A 41 tok
error-recovery .github/skills/error-recovery/SKILL.md A 24 tok
git-workflow .github/skills/git-workflow/SKILL.md C 16 tok
iterative-retrieval .github/skills/iterative-retrieval/SKILL.md A 34 tok
reflect .github/skills/reflect/SKILL.md A 66 tok
reviewer-protocol .github/skills/reviewer-protocol/SKILL.md A 13 tok
secret-handling .github/skills/secret-handling/SKILL.md A 19 tok
session-recovery .github/skills/session-recovery/SKILL.md A 16 tok
squad-conventions .github/skills/squad-conventions/SKILL.md A 15 tok
squad-help .github/skills/squad-help/SKILL.md A 60 tok
squad-version-check .github/skills/squad-version-check/SKILL.md A 52 tok
squad .github/skills/squad/SKILL.md A 87 tok
test-discipline .github/skills/test-discipline/SKILL.md A 12 tok
tiered-memory .github/skills/tiered-memory/SKILL.md A 20 tok

Agents

C# Expert .github/agents/CSharpExpert.agent.md A 18 tok
Agent Issues .github/agents/agent-isues.md A 14 tok
Squad .github/agents/squad.agent.md C 23 tok
beast-mode-4.1 .github/chatmodes/beast-mode-4.1.chatmode.md A 12 tok

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