grpc

Guidance for building or reviewing gRPC services and clients in .NET. gRPC is a way for software services to communicate through typed contracts defined with Protocol Buffers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for ASP.NET Core gRPC services, protobuf contracts, streaming calls, client factories, interceptors, health checks, and service-to-service communication.
Why use it?
It helps choose gRPC appropriately and avoid problems with streaming, time limits, cancellation, connections, message sizes, and error handling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/grpc
Any agent
npx skills add managedcode/dotnet-skills --skill grpc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotnet-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,155 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00095 $0.01155
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00577
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00231
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00115

Measured 2d ago against content hash c99f002e373f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grpc 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 2d 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.

catalog/Frameworks/gRPC/skills/grpc/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gRPC for .NET

Trigger On

  • building backend-to-backend RPC services or clients
  • adding protobuf contracts, streaming calls, or interceptors
  • deciding between gRPC, HTTP APIs, and SignalR
  • optimizing gRPC performance, deadlines, cancellation, or connection reuse
  • integrating service-to-service communication in microservices

Do Not Use For

  • public browser-first APIs unless gRPC-Web limitations are explicitly acceptable
  • SignalR hub design, realtime UI fan-out, or websocket-style client collaboration
  • generic ASP.NET Core minimal APIs or REST controllers with no protobuf/RPC requirement
  • non-.NET gRPC work unless the user asks for cross-stack contract guidance

Load References

  • references/patterns.md for proto design, streaming implementations, interceptors, health checks, load balancing, and client factory setup.
  • references/anti-patterns.md for common channel, deadline, streaming, message-size, and exception-handling mistakes.

Workflow

  1. Validate the architecture fit before touching code.
    • prefer gRPC for backend RPC, strong contracts, low-latency calls, or streaming
    • prefer REST or minimal APIs for broad browser compatibility and loosely coupled public APIs
    • prefer SignalR for browser/client realtime fan-out and UI collaboration
  2. Treat .proto files as the source of truth.
    • keep package names, csharp_namespace, service names, and versioning deliberate
    • reserve removed field numbers and avoid reusing tags
    • use wrapper types or explicit messages when optionality matters
  3. Choose the RPC shape from the interaction model.
    • unary for request/response
    • server streaming for large or progressive result sets
    • client streaming for uploads or batches
    • bidirectional streaming for coordinated two-way flows
  4. Wire server and client behavior together.
    • register services with AddGrpc
    • use AddGrpcClient or long-lived GrpcChannel reuse
    • set deadlines and propagate cancellation
    • convert domain failures to appropriate RpcException status codes
  5. Add observability and resilience where the boundary justifies it.
    • logging or exception interceptors
    • OpenTelemetry traces and status-code metrics
    • retry policy only for safe idempotent calls
  6. Validate with the repo's normal build and tests, plus a focused smoke call when runnable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 lines

Files

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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 118 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A c99f002e373f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotnet-skills (477 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,155 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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