aspire

aspire is a skill for Claude Code from SSWConsulting/SSW.VerticalSliceArchitecture. It costs 201 tokens per session (1,822 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for operating an Aspire distributed application through the Aspire command-line tool. Aspire helps run and manage applications made of multiple connected services, such as an app, database, and supporting containers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to operate an Aspire AppHost, inspect resources and logs, manage secrets, add integrations, find frontend URLs, and publish or deploy the application.
Why use it?
It provides the project-specific workflow for starting, inspecting, configuring, publishing, and deploying Aspire applications. It avoids using unrelated commands that may not manage the application correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to operate an Aspire AppHost, inspect resources and logs, manage secrets, add integrations, find frontend URLs, and publish or deploy the application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sswconsulting/ssw.verticalslicearchitecture/aspire
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add SSWConsulting/SSW.VerticalSliceArchitecture --skill aspire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SSWConsulting/SSW.VerticalSliceArchitecture

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 201 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,822 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00201 $0.01822
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.00911
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00182

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8ce7b0b7565c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aspire 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 10d 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.

.claude/skills/aspire/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aspire Skill

Use this skill when the task is about operating an Aspire distributed application through the Aspire CLI rather than falling back to ad-hoc dotnet, docker, or shell workflows.

Resources are typically defined in an AppHost such as, AppHost.cs, apphost.ts, or AppHost/AppHost.csproj (Program.cs).

Use this skill for

  • Starting, restarting, and stopping AppHosts with aspire start and aspire stop
  • Initializing Aspire in an existing app with aspire init (drops skeleton files; use the aspireify skill to complete wiring)
  • Inspecting resources, logs, traces, and docs
  • Adding integrations with aspire add
  • Recovering missing TypeScript AppHost support files with aspire restore
  • Discovering the correct frontend URL before a Playwright handoff
  • Understanding unfamiliar Aspire AppHost APIs before editing C# or TypeScript AppHosts
  • Managing AppHost secrets and CLI config
  • Publishing and deploying Aspire apps, including single named steps with aspire do
  • Adding custom dashboard or resource commands with docs-backed AppHost patterns

Do not use this skill for

  • Non-Aspire .NET applications
  • Container-only workflows that do not involve an Aspire AppHost
  • Replacing normal build and test commands when the task is just compiling code or running unit tests

Default workflow

  1. Confirm that the workspace is an Aspire app and identify the AppHost.
  2. Start the app with aspire start. Use --isolated in git worktrees or whenever shared local state would be risky.
  3. Use aspire wait <resource> before interacting with a resource that needs to be healthy.
  4. Inspect state with aspire describe, then use aspire otel logs, aspire logs, aspire otel traces, and aspire export before making code changes. Display returned data using the formatting rules in references/monitoring.md.
  5. Before adding an integration, introducing a custom dashboard/resource command, or using an unfamiliar AppHost API, use aspire docs search <topic> and aspire docs get <slug> for workflow guidance, then use aspire docs api search <query> --language csharp|typescript and aspire docs api get <id> when you need the API reference entry itself.
  6. Re-run aspire start after AppHost changes. In git worktrees, re-run aspire start --isolated instead of switching to aspire run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 93 lines · 201 tokens per session scan A 8ce7b0b7565c

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aspire is a skill published in the GitHub repository SSWConsulting/SSW.VerticalSliceArchitecture (398 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 201 tokens to every session and 1,822 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.