dotnet-dependency

dotnet-dependency is a skill for Claude Code from NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,492 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for investigating dependencies in .NET projects. .NET is a software platform, and NuGet is its package distribution system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It covers searching, adding, updating, and removing NuGet packages; listing project and package references; tracing indirect dependencies; and managing .NET tools.
Why use it?
It helps explain why packages are present and find packages that are outdated, vulnerable, or included indirectly by another package.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the handbook-dotnet plugin — 9 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nikiforovall/claude-code-rules/dotnet-dependency
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.

Any agent
npx skills add NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules --skill dotnet-dependency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handbook-dotnet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote 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.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,492 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01492
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00149

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0c427b6b2d7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-dependency scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

allowed-tools: Bash(dotnet nuget why:*), Bash(dotnet list:*), Bash(dotnet outdated:*), Bash(dotnet package search:*), Bash(dotnet add package:*), Bash(dotnet remove package:*), Bash(dotnet tool:*), Read, Grep, Glob

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/handbook-dotnet/skills/dotnet-dependency/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Dependencies

Investigate and manage .NET project dependencies using built-in dotnet CLI commands.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke when the user needs to:

  • Search for NuGet packages or find latest versions
  • Add, update, or remove package references
  • Understand why a specific NuGet package is included
  • List all project dependencies (NuGet packages or project references)
  • Find outdated or vulnerable packages
  • Trace transitive dependencies
  • Manage dotnet tools (search, install, update)

Quick Reference

Command Purpose
dotnet package search <term> Search NuGet for packages
dotnet package search <name> --exact-match List all versions of a package
dotnet add package <id> Add/update package to latest version
dotnet add package <id> -v <ver> Add/update package to specific version
dotnet remove package <id> Remove package reference
dotnet nuget why <package> Show dependency graph for a package
dotnet list package List NuGet packages
dotnet list package --include-transitive Include transitive dependencies
dotnet list reference --project <project> List project-to-project references
dotnet list package --outdated Find packages with newer versions
dotnet list package --vulnerable Find packages with security issues
dotnet outdated (Third-party) Check outdated packages
dotnet outdated -u (Third-party) Auto-update packages
dotnet tool search <term> Search for dotnet tools
dotnet tool update <id> Update local tool to latest
dotnet tool update --all Update all local tools

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 7d ago First seen · 200 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 0c427b6b2d7f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dotnet-dependency is a skill published in the GitHub repository NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules (141 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,492 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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