choose-fsharp-web-framework

choose-fsharp-web-framework is a skill for Claude Code from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 51 tokens per session (749 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A decision guide for choosing an F# web framework before writing the application. It compares several frameworks by how they structure routes, dependencies, tests, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an F# web service and deciding between ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs, Giraffe, Falco, Oxpecker, and Saturn.
Why use it?
It prevents the framework choice from deciding the whole architecture by accident. It helps keep the domain code, web server, data storage, and deployment concerns separate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dotnet-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting an F# web service and deciding between ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs, Giraffe, Falco, Oxpecker, and Saturn.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/choose-fsharp-web-framework
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill choose-fsharp-web-framework
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 749 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 $0.00051 $0.00749
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00300
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 54323cd5c16a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

choose-fsharp-web-framework 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.

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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-skills/skills/choose-fsharp-web-framework/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Choose F# Web Framework

Choose the web surface before scaffolding. Keep the application's F# domain model, HTTP host, persistence, and deployment decision explicit instead of treating a framework DSL as the whole architecture.

Source Check

Inspect the repository and its locked packages first. When a current framework behavior matters, use its official documentation before generating code:

Selection

Need Default fit Why
Small service using standard ASP.NET endpoint conventions Minimal APIs Least extra framework surface; keep idiomatic F# modules around the host.
Composable middleware-style functional handlers Giraffe HttpHandler composition over the ASP.NET Core pipeline.
Lightweight functional API or full-stack server toolkit Falco Direct routing and response helpers with ordinary ASP.NET Core integration.
Endpoint-routing / Minimal-API-shaped F# DSL Oxpecker F# endpoint handlers and middleware on ASP.NET Core Endpoint Routing.
Established convention-heavy F# MVC application Saturn Use only when its MVC/scaffolding shape is desired by the project.

Do not select from popularity alone. Check existing package choices, team experience, endpoint style, HTML/view needs, authentication, hosting, and how much framework-specific API the project is willing to own.

Workflow

  1. Classify the application: API, HTML server app, webhook, internal tool, background worker with health endpoints, or full-stack application.
  2. Inspect its existing ASP.NET Core host, package versions, test harness, configuration, and deployment files.
  3. State the chosen framework and why the alternatives do not fit this project.
  4. Keep domain operations in F# modules independent of HTTP handlers.
  5. Use the matching framework skill for Giraffe, Falco, or Oxpecker. For Minimal APIs use dotnet:aspnet-core-service-workflow; for Saturn, inspect its local conventions and official documentation before making framework-specific edits.
  6. Select the smallest useful test level and run dotnet build plus the relevant dotnet test command.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 1mo ago First seen · 67 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 54323cd5c16a

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choose-fsharp-web-framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 749 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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