dotnet-architecture

dotnet-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from j4flmao/agent-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (5,268 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for organizing .NET applications, including clean architecture, vertical slices, and CQRS. CQRS separates actions that change data from requests that read it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan project and solution structure, define project references, register services, configure MediatR and EF Core, and test architecture rules.
Why use it?
It helps keep code responsibilities and dependency directions clear as a .NET solution grows. It also provides consistent dependency-injection setup and architecture checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to plan project and solution structure, define project references, register services, configure MediatR and EF Core, and test architecture rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/j4flmao/agent-skills/architecture
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 j4flmao/agent-skills --skill architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/j4flmao/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,268 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00083 $0.05268
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02634
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00527

Measured 9d ago against content hash 05668e8d5bf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-architecture 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 9d 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.

skills/backend/dotnet/architecture/SKILL.md · 650 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 650 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Architecture

Purpose

Structure .NET applications with clean architecture, vertical slices, or CQRS — dependency inversion, MediatR pipelines, DI registration, and solution organization.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

User request includes: dotnet clean architecture, dotnet vertical slice, dotnet CQRS, dotnet solution structure, .NET project layout, dotnet DI, dotnet MediatR.

Input Context

  • .NET version (6+, 8+, 9+)
  • Architecture (Clean Architecture, Vertical Slices, N-tier)
  • Database (EF Core, Dapper, ADO.NET)
  • Patterns (CQRS, Event Sourcing, Repository)

Output Artifact

Solution structure, project references, DI registration, MediatR pipeline, EF Core setup.

Response Format

Produce artifact directly. No preamble, no postamble, no explanations. No filler, no hedging, no transitions.

Completion Criteria

  • Solution split by concern: Domain, Application, Infrastructure, Presentation
  • Domain has zero external dependencies
  • Application depends only on Domain
  • Infrastructure implements Application/Domain interfaces
  • DI registered in Composition Root (Presentation layer)
  • Architecture tests enforce dependency rules

Max Response Length

4096 tokens

Architecture Decision Trees

Clean Architecture vs Vertical Slices vs N-tier

Criterion Clean Architecture Vertical Slices N-tier
Team size 5+ (many devs on same codebase) 2-5 (feature teams) 1-3 (simple apps)
Domain complexity High (many business rules) Medium (CRUD-heavy) Low (simple CRUD)
Change frequency Core domain changes rarely Features change independently Everything changes together
Testing strategy Unit test domain, integration infra Feature-level integration tests End-to-end, horizontal
Learning curve Steep (many abstractions) Moderate (vertical boundaries) Low (traditional layers)

Decision: Complex domain with many rules → Clean Architecture. CRUD-heavy medium app → Vertical Slices. Simple API with few rules → N-tier.

Read the full file on GitHub · 650 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 650 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 05668e8d5bf3

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dotnet-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository j4flmao/agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 5,268 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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