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.
npx skills add managedcode/dotnet-skills --skill template-discoverygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotnet-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/template-discovery)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/template-discovery"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/template-discovery/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/template-discovery"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/managedcode/dotnet-skills/template-discovery.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Anti-Refusal · line 118 Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00158 | $0.02932 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00063 | $0.01173 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00586 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00293 |
Grade A, and why
template-discovery 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Template Discovery
This skill helps an agent find, inspect, and select the right dotnet new template for a given task using dotnet new CLI commands for search, listing, and parameter inspection.
When to Use
- User asks "What templates are available for X?"
- User describes a project in natural language ("I need a web API with authentication")
- User wants to compare templates or understand parameters before creating a project
- User needs to know what a template produces (files, structure) before committing
When Not to Use
- User wants to create a project — route to
template-instantiationskill - User wants to author or validate a custom template — route to
template-authoringskill - User wants a detailed side-by-side comparison of templates — route to
template-comparisonskill - User wants smart cross-parameter defaults during creation — route to
template-smart-defaultsskill - User is troubleshooting build issues — route to
dotnet-msbuildplugin
Recommendation requests: answer first, confirm second. Inspection requests: inspect first. For a general "which template?" question, start from the Step 1 mappings so a transient CLI failure cannot leave the user without an answer. When the user explicitly asks what is installed, requests exact options/defaults, or asks for dry-run output, run the relevant
dotnet newcommand before writing the final answer. Never end a turn on adotnet newcall or a "let me confirm..." teaser.
Inspection requests require inspection. If the user asks for installed choices, exact parameters/defaults, compatibility constraints, or the exact dry-run file list, run the corresponding
dotnet newcommand. Do not replace observed data with remembered flags. Report a flag only when the current template's--helpoutput contains it.
Inputs
| Input | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| User intent or keywords | Yes | Natural-language description or keywords (e.g., "web API", "console app", "MAUI") |
| Language preference | No | C#, F#, or VB — defaults to C# |
| Framework preference | No | Target framework (e.g., net10.0, net9.0) |
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +19 lines 53facd7852b5
- 1mo ago First seen · 197 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 45e93fef8529
template-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotnet-skills (490 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 2,932 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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