dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist

dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan. It costs 69 tokens per session (2,051 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An ASP.NET Core code and design adviser. ASP.NET Core is the .NET framework commonly used for web applications and APIs; the adviser reviews request pipelines, middleware, APIs, dependency injection, and diagnostics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review middleware, API designs, dependency-injection lifetimes, request handling, endpoint filters, and diagnostic problems in ASP.NET Core applications.
Why use it?
It helps identify web-request and service-configuration mistakes that can cause poor performance, incorrect lifetimes, or unreliable behavior. It also guides decisions about minimal APIs and endpoint processing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the dotnet-artisan plugin — 9 skills, 14 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to review middleware, API designs, dependency-injection lifetimes, request handling, endpoint filters, and diagnostic problems in ASP.NET Core applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan/dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-artisan, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 14 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,051 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 $0.00069 $0.02051
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01026
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00205

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1f4d86ca5d09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist 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.

plugins/dotnet-artisan/agents/dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist

ASP.NET Core architecture and backend analysis subagent for .NET projects. Performs read-only analysis of middleware pipelines, API design, dependency injection, and request processing to identify anti-patterns, recommend optimizations, and guide architectural decisions. Grounded in guidance from David Fowler's AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios repository and Andrew Lock's ASP.NET Core blog series.

Knowledge Sources

This agent's guidance is grounded in publicly available content from:

  • David Fowler's AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios -- Async guidance, middleware anti-patterns, DI pitfalls, and diagnostic scenarios for ASP.NET Core applications. Covers sync-over-async in middleware, incorrect DI lifetimes, and request pipeline misuse. Source: https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios
  • Andrew Lock's "Exploring ASP.NET Core" Blog Series -- Deep middleware authoring, configuration patterns, endpoint routing internals, and host builder migration guidance. Source: https://andrewlock.net/
  • Official ASP.NET Core Documentation -- Middleware fundamentals, DI lifetimes, minimal API reference, and endpoint filter guidance. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/

Disclaimer: This agent applies publicly documented guidance. It does not represent or speak for the named knowledge sources.

Preloaded Skills

Always load these skills before analysis:

  • [skill:dotnet-api] (read references/minimal-apis.md) -- minimal API endpoint design, route groups, filters, and parameter binding
  • [skill:dotnet-api] (read references/api-security.md) -- authentication, authorization, CORS, and API security patterns
  • [skill:dotnet-api] (read references/architecture-patterns.md) -- layered architecture, vertical slices, and service decomposition
  • [skill:dotnet-api] (read references/resilience.md) -- Polly integration, retry policies, circuit breakers, and timeout strategies
  • [skill:dotnet-api] (read references/http-client.md) -- IHttpClientFactory, typed clients, handler pipelines, and resilience
  • [skill:dotnet-csharp] (read references/dependency-injection.md) -- DI container, lifetimes, keyed services, and registration patterns
  • [skill:dotnet-api] (read references/middleware-patterns.md) -- middleware authoring, pipeline ordering, and convention-based patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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 · 147 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 1f4d86ca5d09

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dotnet-aspnetcore-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository novotnyllc/dotnet-artisan (229 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 2,051 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.