Generative AI for Beginners .NET is a hands-on course that teaches .NET developers to build applications using generative AI models and related tools. Its lessons use practical samples covering scenarios such as chat, audio transcription, agents, and local AI. The catalogue entries are add-ons associated with the course repository.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/main/.github/skills/test-discipline/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnetWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners-dotnet/test-discipline)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners-dotnet/test-discipline"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners-dotnet/test-discipline.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00012 | $0.00413 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00206 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00083 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
test-discipline 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 8d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to test-discipline — 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.
What it actually says
Context
When APIs or public interfaces change, tests must be updated in the same commit. When test assertions reference file counts or expected arrays, they must be kept in sync with disk reality. Stale tests block CI for other contributors.
Patterns
- API changes → test updates (same commit): If you change a function signature, public interface, or exported API, update the corresponding tests before committing
- Test assertions → disk reality: When test files contain expected counts (e.g.,
EXPECTED_FEATURES,EXPECTED_SCENARIOS), they must match the actual files on disk - Add files → update assertions: When adding docs pages, features, or any counted resource, update the test assertion array in the same commit
- CI failures → check assertions first: Before debugging complex failures, verify test assertion arrays match filesystem state
Examples
✓ Correct:
- Changed auth API signature → updated auth.test.ts in same commit
- Added
distributed-mesh.mdto features/ → added'distributed-mesh'to EXPECTED_FEATURES array - Deleted two scenario files → removed entries from EXPECTED_SCENARIOS
✗ Incorrect:
- Changed spawn parameters → committed without updating casting.test.ts (CI breaks for next person)
- Added
built-in-roles.md→ left EXPECTED_FEATURES at old count (PR blocked) - Test says "expected 7 files" but disk has 25 (assertion staleness)
Anti-Patterns
- Committing API changes without test updates ("I'll fix tests later")
- Treating test assertion arrays as static (they evolve with content)
- Assuming CI passing means coverage is correct (stale assertions can pass while being wrong)
- Leaving gaps for other agents to discover
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 38 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 6efe81cabcd2
test-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet (3,052 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 413 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to test-discipline, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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