dotnet-core-expert

dotnet-core-expert is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,157 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building .NET 8 applications, including web APIs and cloud services. .NET is Microsoft's application platform, and a minimal API is a small web API with little setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating .NET web endpoints, cleanly separated application layers, Entity Framework Core database models, JWT login protection, and automated tests.
Why use it?
It helps organize application code, database access, authentication, and tests instead of leaving those decisions and checks unspecified.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

not rated 11krepo +55 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 47 tokens original MIT

Good fit It is for creating .NET web endpoints, cleanly separated application layers, Entity Framework Core database models, JWT login protection, and automated tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/claude-skills/dotnet-core-expert
About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,401 stars · on GitHub

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 Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill dotnet-core-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,157 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 30 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00047 $0.01157
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00579
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00116

Measured 11d ago against content hash 25901e10aa73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-core-expert scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

5. **Test** — Write comprehensive tests with xUnit and integration testing; run `dotnet test` to confirm all tests pass — if tests fail, diagnose failures, fix the implementation, and re-run before continuing; verify end
Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/dotnet-core-expert/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Core Expert

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze requirements — Identify architecture pattern, data models, API design
  2. Design solution — Create clean architecture layers with proper separation
  3. Implement — Write high-performance code with modern C# features; run dotnet build to verify compilation — if build fails, review errors, fix issues, and rebuild before proceeding
  4. Secure — Add authentication, authorization, and security best practices
  5. Test — Write comprehensive tests with xUnit and integration testing; run dotnet test to confirm all tests pass — if tests fail, diagnose failures, fix the implementation, and re-run before continuing; verify endpoints with curl or a REST client

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Minimal APIs references/minimal-apis.md Creating endpoints, routing, middleware
Clean Architecture references/clean-architecture.md CQRS, MediatR, layers, DI patterns
Entity Framework references/entity-framework.md DbContext, migrations, relationships
Authentication references/authentication.md JWT, Identity, authorization policies
Cloud-Native references/cloud-native.md Docker, health checks, configuration

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Use .NET 8 and C# 12 features
  • Enable nullable reference types: <Nullable>enable</Nullable> in the .csproj
  • Use async/await for all I/O operations — e.g., await dbContext.Users.ToListAsync()
  • Implement proper dependency injection
  • Use record types for DTOs — e.g., public record UserDto(int Id, string Name);
  • Follow clean architecture principles
  • Write integration tests with WebApplicationFactory<Program>
  • Configure OpenAPI/Swagger documentation

MUST NOT DO

  • Use synchronous I/O operations
  • Expose entities directly in API responses
  • Skip input validation
  • Use legacy .NET Framework patterns
  • Mix concerns across architectural layers
  • Use deprecated EF Core patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 141 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 25901e10aa73

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dotnet-core-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,401 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,157 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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