mcaf-dotnet-analyzer-config

Guidance for configuring .NET code analyzers and style rules in .editorconfig, a file that records coding rules for a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or refine a repository-wide .editorconfig, or to add focused rules for tests, generated code, legacy code, or a specific subtree.
Why use it?
It gives the project one clear place to define rule severity, formatting choices, and who owns each rule. This reduces conflicting settings across projects and folders.

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/dotpilot/mcaf-dotnet-analyzer-config
Any agent
npx skills add managedcode/dotPilot --skill mcaf-dotnet-analyzer-config
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotPilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,049 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00066 $0.01049
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00524
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00105

Measured 2d ago against content hash 64a4f6cf76d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcaf-dotnet-analyzer-config 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to dotnet-analyzer-config — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.codex/skills/mcaf-dotnet-analyzer-config/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCAF: .NET Analyzer Config

Trigger On

  • the repo needs a root .editorconfig
  • analyzer severity and style ownership are unclear
  • the team wants one source of truth for rule configuration

Value

  • produce a concrete project delta: code, docs, config, tests, CI, or review artifact
  • reduce ambiguity through explicit planning, verification, and final validation skills
  • leave reusable project context so future tasks are faster and safer

Do Not Use For

  • choosing analyzers with no config change
  • formatting-only execution with no config ownership question

Inputs

  • the nearest AGENTS.md
  • current .editorconfig
  • any Directory.Build.props overrides

Quick Start

  1. Read the nearest AGENTS.md and confirm scope and constraints.
  2. Run this skill's Workflow through the Ralph Loop until outcomes are acceptable.
  3. Return the Required Result Format with concrete artifacts and verification evidence.

Workflow

  1. Prefer one repo-root .editorconfig with root = true.
  2. Add nested .editorconfig files when a subtree has a clear scoped purpose, such as stricter rules, different generated-code handling, or a different policy for tests or legacy code.
  3. Keep severity in .editorconfig, not scattered through IDE settings.
  4. Write the file as real EditorConfig, not as a made-up .NET variant:
    • lowercase filename .editorconfig
    • root = true in the preamble
    • no inline comments
    • forward slashes in globs
  5. Keep bulk switches such as EnableNETAnalyzers in MSBuild files, not in .editorconfig.
  6. Treat .globalconfig as an exceptional case, not the normal repo setup.

Bootstrap When Missing

If analyzer configuration is requested but not structured yet:

  1. Detect current state:
    • rg --files -g '.editorconfig' -g '.globalconfig'
    • rg -n "EnableNETAnalyzers|AnalysisLevel|AnalysisMode" -g '*.csproj' -g 'Directory.Build.*' .
  2. Create or normalize one repo-root .editorconfig with root = true.
  3. Move rule severity into .editorconfig and keep bulk analyzer switches in project or MSBuild config.
  4. Add nested .editorconfig files only when a subtree really needs different scoped policy.
  5. Run dotnet build SOLUTION_OR_PROJECT and return status: configured or status: improved.
  6. If the repo intentionally uses another documented analyzer-config ownership model, return status: not_applicable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

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.

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 · 111 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 64a4f6cf76d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcaf-dotnet-analyzer-config is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotPilot (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,049 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to dotnet-analyzer-config, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.