.NET MAUI is a C# and XAML framework for building native mobile and desktop applications from one shared codebase. Developers use it to create apps for Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Windows. The catalogue entries provide skills, instructions, and agents for working with .NET MAUI.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to dotnet/maui. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/maui/main/.github/skills/dependency-flow/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet/mauiWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 106 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00071 | $0.10343 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.04137 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.02069 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.01034 |
Grade A, and why
dependency-flow 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 606 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
dotnet/maui Dependency Flow Context
This skill provides MAUI-specific context for dependency flow operations. Use it together with the maestro-cli skill (loaded from the dotnet-dnceng@dotnet-arcade-skills plugin via .github/copilot/settings.json) or the maestro MCP tools when available.
First: use maestro MCP tools or invoke the
maestro-cliskill — they handle the core query and mutation workflow. This skill provides MAUI-specific rules and context on top of that.
Tool Preference
The maestro-cli skill and its mstro CLI are loaded automatically from the dotnet/arcade-skills plugin (configured in .github/copilot/settings.json via enabledPlugins). No manual download is needed.
- Maestro MCP tools — preferred when available in the tool list (
maestro_build,maestro_builds,maestro_latest_build,maestro_default_channels,maestro_subscriptions,maestro_subscription_health, etc.) mstroCLI viamaestro-cliskill — fallback when MCP tools aren't loaded, or for scripting with--jsonandjqdarcCLI — only for operations neither MCP normstrocover (see below)
Operations that require darc CLI
| Operation | Command | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Asset/feed lookup | darc get-asset --name ... --version ... |
No MCP/mstro equivalent for asset search |
| Add build to channel | darc add-build-to-channel --id ... --channel ... |
No MCP/mstro equivalent |
| Update dependencies | darc update-dependencies --channel ... |
Mutates local Version.Details.xml |
| Add dependency | darc add-dependency --name ... |
Mutates local Version.Details.xml |
| Verify dependencies | darc verify |
No MCP/mstro equivalent |
MAUI Channel Naming
MAUI uses two types of channels:
SDK Channels (automatic)
Pattern: .NET X.0.Yxx SDK (e.g., .NET 10.0.1xx SDK)
These are configured via default channel mappings — builds are automatically added when they complete on a mapped branch.
Common branch → channel patterns (not exhaustive — always verify with the command below):
- Servicing release branches (
release/X.0.Yxx-srN) all map to the single general SDK channel for that band (e.g.,release/10.0.1xx-sr6,release/10.0.1xx-sr7, etc. all map to.NET 10.0.1xx SDK). There is no.NET X.0.Yxx SDK SRnchannel — do not invent one. - Preview release branches (
release/X.0.Yxx-previewN) map to dedicated per-preview channels (e.g.,release/11.0.1xx-preview3→.NET 11.0.1xx SDK Preview 3). See Subscription Authoring & Lifecycle below for how to wire a new preview channel into the maui subscription set, including the PR #35364 channel/branch mismatch trap. - RC release branches (
release/X.0.Yxx-rcN) use dedicated per-RC channels (e.g.,.NET 10.0.1xx SDK RC 2) only while their cycle is active — these default mappings are removed after the RC ships, soget-default-channelswill show no RC sibling to copy from. If you can't find a sibling, stop and tell the user to escalate to release engineering — do not guess the channel name. - Main/development branches (
main,netN.0,release/X.0.Yxx) map to the general SDK channel for that band. - Other shapes also exist in dotnet/maui from time to time — point-sub-release branches (
-rc2.1,-preview6.1),inflight/*mirrors, and vendor-suffixed branches (e.g.,release/10.0.1xx-meaipreview1). Do not assume the four bullets above are complete — always check.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 606 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 28756bd2c497
dependency-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository dotnet/maui (23,322 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 10,343 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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