dotnet-agent-skills

A collection of plugins for coding agents that work with C# and .NET, Microsoft's platform for building applications. It covers general development, data access, performance investigation, debugging, and MSBuild, the .NET build system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing C# and .NET code, working with Entity Framework data access, investigating slow or failing applications, or diagnosing and improving .NET builds.
Why use it?
It brings related .NET development guidance into one marketplace listing, so you do not have to find separate add-ons for common language, data, debugging, and build tasks.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/dotnet/skills/marketplace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-agent-skills 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.

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "name": "dotnet-agent-skills",
  "owner": {
    "name": ".NET Team at Microsoft"
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "dotnet",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet",
      "description": "C# language server (LSP) integration for coding agents and high-level .NET development skills."
    },
    { 
      "name": "dotnet-advanced",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-advanced",
      "description": "Advanced .NET and C# skills for niche scenarios that are not part of the core dotnet plugin."
    },
    {
      "name": "dotnet-data",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-data",
      "description": "Skills for .NET data access and Entity Framework related tasks."
    },
    {
      "name": "dotnet-diag",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-diag",
      "description": "Skills for .NET performance investigations, debugging, and incident analysis."
    },
    {
      "name": "dotnet-msbuild",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-msbuild",
      "description": "Comprehensive MSBuild and .NET build skills: failure diagnosis, performance optimization, code quality, and modernization.",
      "mcpServers": {
        "binlog": {
          "type": "stdio",
          "command": "dotnet",
          "args": [
            "dnx",
            "Microsoft.AITools.BinlogMcp",
            "--yes",
            "--prerelease"
          ],
          "tools": ["*"]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "dotnet-nuget",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-nuget",
      "description": "NuGet and .NET package management: dependency management and modernization."
    },
    {
      "name": "dotnet-upgrade",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-upgrade",
      "description": "Skills for migrating and upgrading .NET projects across framework versions, language features, and compatibility targets."
    },
    {
      "name": "dotnet-maui",
      "source": "./plugins/dotnet-maui",
      "description": "Skills for .NET MAUI development: environment setup, diagnostics, troubleshooting, navigation, data bind

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines scan A 2b662f907f23

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dotnet-agent-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository dotnet/skills (5,297 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.