mcaf-dotnet-profiling

A command-line toolkit for investigating .NET application performance and runtime behavior. It can trace CPU use, memory allocation, garbage collection, exceptions, lock contention, heap state, and startup activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to profile an application or process, inspect live runtime counters, collect traces or heap snapshots, and investigate CPU, memory, exceptions, contention, or startup issues.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose why a .NET application is slow, uses too much CPU or memory, pauses during garbage collection, or experiences runtime problems without requiring a graphical interface.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,335 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 $0.00059 $0.01335
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash e35e869a81f8, 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-profiling 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.codex/skills/mcaf-dotnet-profiling/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCAF: .NET Profiling

Trigger On

  • the repo needs performance or runtime profiling for a .NET application
  • the user asks about slow code, high CPU, GC pressure, allocation growth, exception storms, lock contention, or startup diagnostics
  • the team wants official CLI-based diagnostics without depending on dnx

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

  • replacing realistic performance tests or load tests with ad-hoc tracing alone
  • production heap collection when the pause risk has not been accepted
  • GUI-only workflows that the repo cannot automate or document

Inputs

  • the nearest AGENTS.md
  • target application, process, or startup path
  • the symptom being investigated: CPU, memory, GC, contention, exceptions, or startup

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. Build and run a realistic target first:
    • prefer Release
    • prefer realistic config, inputs, and data volume
  2. Start with the lightest useful tool:
    • dotnet-counters for live health signals
    • dotnet-trace for CPU, exception, contention, GC, and startup traces
    • dotnet-gcdump for managed heap inspection when memory shape matters
  3. Prefer installed CLI tools over dnx one-shot execution so the repo commands stay stable and reproducible.
  4. Capture one focused profile at a time instead of mixing every signal into one run.
  5. For CPU and general runtime hotspots, start with dotnet-trace collect.
  6. For live triage, start with dotnet-counters monitor on System.Runtime.
  7. For heap analysis, use dotnet-gcdump carefully and document the pause risk.
  8. After each change, rerun the same measurement path and compare before versus after.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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 · 133 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A e35e869a81f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mcaf-dotnet-profiling is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotPilot (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,335 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.