diagnose-project

diagnose-project is a skill for Claude Code from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,011 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting guide for .NET projects, including applications written in F# or C#. It helps identify the first meaningful cause of restore, build, test, package, SDK, and project-reference failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate .NET SDK selection, package restore, target frameworks, F# file order, C# analyzers, and project-reference errors.
Why use it?
A message such as “build failed” often hides the actual problem. This guide narrows the failure to a command, project, and build stage before suggesting the smallest useful check.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

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

Good fit Use it to investigate .NET SDK selection, package restore, target frameworks, F# file order, C# analyzers, and project-reference errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaelic-ghost/socket/diagnose-project
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.

Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill diagnose-project
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.

Wrote 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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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,011 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 $0.00039 $0.01011
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00404
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00101

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e9ac6f442e36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diagnose-project 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.

plugins/dotnet-skills/skills/diagnose-project/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Diagnose .NET Project

Purpose

Find the first meaningful cause of a .NET failure and explain it in human terms.

The useful answer is not "build failed." It is what command failed, which project failed, which phase failed, why it most likely failed, and the smallest next check or fix.

When To Use

  • Use this skill when dotnet restore, dotnet build, dotnet test, or dotnet pack fails.
  • Use this skill when SDK selection, target framework, package restore, or project references are unclear.
  • Use this skill when F# compile order or C# analyzer/nullability failures need explanation.
  • Use this skill before widening into refactors after a vague .NET error.

Source Check

Use repo-local .NET files, checked-out dependency sources, Dash MCP or Dash HTTP for installed .NET docsets, and then official Microsoft documentation when Dash/local coverage is missing or stale:

Diagnostic Workflow

  1. Capture repository shape:
    rg --files -g '*.sln' -g '*.slnx' -g '*.fsproj' -g '*.csproj' -g 'global.json' -g 'Directory.Build.props' -g 'Directory.Packages.props' -g 'NuGet.config'
    
  2. Check SDK context only when relevant:
    dotnet --info
    dotnet --list-sdks
    
  3. Re-run the narrowest failing command.
  4. Classify the failure phase:
    • SDK selection
    • restore
    • build
    • test discovery
    • test execution
    • pack
    • publish or release
  5. Identify the first meaningful error.
  6. Explain likely cause and next check.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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 · 112 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A e9ac6f442e36

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diagnose-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,011 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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