dotnet-profiling

dotnet-profiling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,356 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of profiling, MIT.

A guide for investigating .NET application performance and runtime behavior with official command-line diagnostics tools. It examines CPU use, memory, garbage collection, allocations, exceptions, lock contention, and startup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for CPU traces, live runtime counters, garbage-collection and allocation analysis, heap snapshots, exception tracing, contention tracing, and startup diagnostics.
Why use it?
It helps identify why an application is slow, uses too much memory, starts slowly, or produces excessive errors or lock waits. The results can be collected without relying on graphical tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it for CPU traces, live runtime counters, garbage-collection and allocation analysis, heap snapshots, exception tracing, contention tracing, and startup diagnostics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills/dotnet-profiling
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 Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills --skill dotnet-profiling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,356 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% 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 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01356
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00136

Measured 7d ago against content hash f9c40ce94a44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

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

97% identical to profiling — 12 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.

skills/dotnet-profiling/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.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 · 137 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. 7d ago First seen · 137 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A f9c40ce94a44

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dotnet-profiling is a skill published in the GitHub repository Postpartum-genushyacinthus29/dotnet-skills (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,356 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to profiling, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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