dotnet

A routing guide for .NET, Microsoft’s platform for building applications with languages such as C#. It first identifies the application type and then directs the work to a more specific .NET guide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify a .NET codebase, inspect its SDK and testing setup, and choose focused guidance for web apps, cloud services, desktop software, data systems, or AI features.
Why use it?
It prevents broad .NET tasks from being handled with advice that does not fit the project’s framework or application model. This is useful when a repository combines several .NET technologies.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,105 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00044 $0.01105
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00111

Measured yesterday against content hash 0367d30c8a45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet 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 yesterday.

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

100% identical to dotnet — 0 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/dotnet/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Router Skill

Trigger On

  • the user asks for general .NET help without naming a narrower framework or tool
  • implementing, debugging, reviewing, or refactoring C# or .NET code in a repo with multiple app models or frameworks
  • deciding which .NET skill should own a task before editing code
  • tasks that combine platform work with testing, quality, architecture, setup, or migration decisions

Workflow

  1. Detect the real stack first:
    • target frameworks and SDK version
    • LangVersion
    • project SDKs and workload hints
    • hosting model and app entry points
    • test framework and runner
    • analyzers, formatters, coverage, and CI quality gates
  2. Route to the narrowest platform skill as soon as the stack is known:
    • Web: dotnet-aspnet-core, dotnet-minimal-apis, dotnet-web-api, dotnet-blazor, dotnet-signalr, dotnet-grpc
    • Cloud and hosting: dotnet-aspire, dotnet-azure-functions, dotnet-worker-services
    • Desktop and client: dotnet-maui, dotnet-wpf, dotnet-winforms, dotnet-winui
    • Data and distributed: dotnet-entity-framework-core, dotnet-entity-framework6, dotnet-orleans
    • AI and agentic: dotnet-semantic-kernel, dotnet-microsoft-extensions-ai, dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework, dotnet-mlnet, dotnet-mixed-reality
    • Legacy: dotnet-legacy-aspnet, dotnet-wcf, dotnet-workflow-foundation
  3. Route cross-cutting work to the companion skill instead of keeping it inside generic .NET advice:
    • project bootstrap or repo shape: dotnet-project-setup, dotnet-architecture
    • frontend asset analysis in mixed .NET plus Node repos: dotnet-eslint, dotnet-stylelint, dotnet-htmlhint, dotnet-webhint, dotnet-biome, dotnet-sonarjs, dotnet-metalint, dotnet-chous
    • code review: dotnet-code-review
    • language features: dotnet-modern-csharp
    • testing: dotnet-tunit, dotnet-xunit, dotnet-mstest
    • format, analyzers, coverage, and CI: dotnet-format, dotnet-code-analysis, dotnet-quality-ci, dotnet-coverlet, dotnet-reportgenerator
    • maintainability and architecture rules: dotnet-complexity, dotnet-netarchtest, dotnet-archunitnet
  4. If more than one specialized skill applies, prefer the one closest to the user-visible behavior first, then pull in the quality or tooling skill second.
  5. Do not stop at this skill once a narrower match exists. This skill should classify and hand off, not become a generic dumping ground.
  6. After code changes, validate with the repository's actual build, test, and quality workflow instead of generic .NET commands.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. yesterday First seen · 74 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0367d30c8a45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dotnet is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/MCPGateway (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,105 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to dotnet, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.