A command-line guide for running, debugging, and managing distributed applications with Aspire. Distributed applications are systems made from multiple services or components that run together.

It is for starting and stopping Aspire apps, inspecting resources, waiting for services to become healthy, reading logs and traces, adding integrations, and updating AppHost packages.

It gathers common Aspire commands for starting applications, checking resources, viewing logs and traces, and diagnosing problems.

How starling-browser/starling configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to starling-browser/starling. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starling-browser/starling/main/.agents/skills/aspire/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/starling-browser/starling

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,334 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00150	$0.01334
Opus 5.5	$0.00060	$0.00534
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00030	$0.00267
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00133

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5a04e24e3c56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

aspire — 100% identical, 210 lines differ

.agents/skills/aspire/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aspire Skill

This repository uses Aspire to orchestrate its distributed application. Resources are defined in the AppHost project (apphost.cs or apphost.ts).

CLI command reference

Task	Command
Start the app	`aspire start`
Start isolated (worktrees)	`aspire start --isolated`
Restart the app	`aspire start` (stops previous automatically)
Wait for resource healthy	`aspire wait <resource>`
Stop the app	`aspire stop`
List resources	`aspire describe` or `aspire resources`
Run resource command	`aspire resource <resource> <command>`
Start/stop/restart resource	`aspire resource start
Rebuild a .NET project resource	`aspire resource <resource> rebuild`
View console logs	`aspire logs [resource]`
View structured logs	`aspire otel logs [resource]`
View traces	`aspire otel traces [resource]`
Logs for a trace	`aspire otel logs --trace-id <id>`
Add an integration	`aspire add`
List running AppHosts	`aspire ps`
Update AppHost packages	`aspire update`
Search docs	`aspire docs search <query>`
Get doc page	`aspire docs get <slug>`
List doc pages	`aspire docs list`
Environment diagnostics	`aspire doctor`
List resource MCP tools	`aspire mcp tools`
Call resource MCP tool	`aspire mcp call <resource> <tool> --input <json>`

Most commands support --format Json for machine-readable output. Use --apphost <path> to target a specific AppHost.

Key workflows

Running in agent environments

Use aspire start to run the AppHost in the background. When working in a git worktree, use --isolated to avoid port conflicts and to prevent sharing user secrets or other local state with other running instances:

aspire start --isolated

Use aspire wait <resource> to block until a resource is healthy before interacting with it:

aspire start --isolated
aspire wait myapi

Applying code changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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.

2mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 5a04e24e3c56

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aspire is a skill published in the GitHub repository starling-browser/starling (64 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 1,334 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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aspire next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
aspirestarling-browser/starling	Skill	64	4mo ago	Apache-2.0	A	150	Claude Code, Codex
popular-web-designsNousResearch/hermes-agent	Skill	261k	yesterday	MIT	A	23	Claude Code, Codex
cli-anything-renderdocHKUDS/CLI-Anything	Skill	58k	1mo ago	Apache-2.0	A	15	Claude Code, Codex
chrome-devtools-mcpmanagedcode/dotnet-skills	Skill	508	yesterday	MIT	A	130	Claude Code, Codex
managedcode-orleans-graphmanagedcode/dotnet-skills	Skill	508	yesterday	MIT	A	114	Claude Code, Codex
asynkron-profilermanagedcode/dotnet-skills	Skill	508	yesterday	MIT	A	122	Claude Code, Codex
maui-ai-debuggingdotnet/maui-labs	Skill	235	yesterday	MIT	A	62	Claude Code, Codex

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