.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/run-helix-tests/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotnet/mauiWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00045 | $0.01478 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00739 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00296 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00148 |
Grade A, and why
run-helix-tests 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 6d 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 — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Run Helix Tests Skill
Submit and monitor .NET MAUI unit tests on Helix infrastructure from your local machine.
Tools Required
This skill uses pwsh (PowerShell 7+) to run the scripts. The scripts call the local .dotnet/dotnet SDK.
When to Use
- User asks to "run tests on Helix"
- User wants to validate test changes on Helix infrastructure
- User asks to "test on multiple platforms" (Windows + macOS)
- User wants to debug Helix-specific test failures locally
- User asks about "Helix unit tests" (not device tests - those use
helix_xharness.proj)
Prerequisites
Before running Helix tests, ensure:
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Local SDK provisioned: The
.dotnet/folder must exist with the SDK# If missing, run: dotnet cake --target=dotnet -
Build tasks compiled (for first run):
# Windows .\build.cmd -restore -build -configuration Release -projects .\Microsoft.Maui.BuildTasks.slnf # macOS/Linux ./build.sh -restore -build -configuration Release -projects ./Microsoft.Maui.BuildTasks.slnf
Scripts
All scripts are in .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/
1. Submit Unit Tests to Helix
# Submit all unit tests (XAML, Core, Essentials, Resizetizer, etc.)
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Submit-HelixTests.ps1
# Submit with specific configuration
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Submit-HelixTests.ps1 -Configuration Debug
# Submit to specific queue only
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Submit-HelixTests.ps1 -Queue "Windows.10.Amd64.Open"
2. Monitor Helix Job Status
# Monitor a submitted job (use job ID from submission output)
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Get-HelixJobStatus.ps1 -JobId <JOB_ID>
# Wait for completion with polling
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Get-HelixJobStatus.ps1 -JobId <JOB_ID> -Wait
3. Get Helix Work Item Console Logs
# Get console output for a specific work item
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Get-HelixWorkItemLog.ps1 -JobId <JOB_ID> -WorkItem <WORK_ITEM_NAME>
# Get failed work items only
pwsh .github/skills/run-helix-tests/scripts/Get-HelixWorkItemLog.ps1 -JobId <JOB_ID> -FailedOnly
What ships with it
3 files 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.
- 6d ago First seen · 171 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A cd34806fa65a
run-helix-tests is a skill published in the GitHub repository dotnet/maui (23,319 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,478 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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