What is dependency-flow?

A .NET MAUI guide for moving dependencies through build feeds and release channels. Dependencies are external components a project relies on; tools such as darc, BAR, and Maestro help find builds, feeds, promotions, and channel mappings.

Use it to look up MAUI builds and assets, inspect feeds and channels, check subscriptions, and handle dependency promotions with Maestro or the appropriate command-line tool.

It explains which tool and MAUI-specific rules apply when checking or advancing dependency flow. This reduces mistakes caused by using the wrong feed, channel, or lookup process.

dependency-flow — Skill by dotnet

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 skills/dotnet/maui/dependency-flow

Any agent

npx skills add dotnet/maui --skill dependency-flow

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet/maui

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 10,343 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00071	$0.10343
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.05171
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.02069
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.01034

Measured 2d ago against content hash 28756bd2c497, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/Get-PreviewReleaseReadiness.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.github/skills/dependency-flow/SKILL.md · 606 lines

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-cli skill — 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.)
mstro CLI via maestro-cli skill — fallback when MCP tools aren't loaded, or for scripting with --json and jq
darc CLI — only for operations neither MCP nor mstro cover (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 SRn channel — 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, so get-default-channels will 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 606 lines

Files

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.

scripts/Get-PreviewReleaseReadiness.ps1 14 KB runs code

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.

2d ago First seen · 606 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 28756bd2c497

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository dotnet/maui (23,317 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 10,343 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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