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.
npx agentmods add skills/nikiforovall/github-copilot-rules/dotnet-dependencynpx skills add NikiforovAll/github-copilot-rules --skill dotnet-dependencygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NikiforovAll/github-copilot-rulesWhat 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 | $0.00035 | $0.01435 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00718 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00287 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00144 |
Grade A, and why
dotnet-dependency 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.
This is a copy
94% identical to dotnet-dependency — 1 line 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 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- Find outdated or vulnerable packages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 |
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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 2794d62b431f
dotnet-dependency is a skill published in the GitHub repository NikiforovAll/github-copilot-rules (131 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to dotnet-dependency, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.
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