legacy-package-migrator

legacy-package-migrator is a skill for Claude Code from StefanTheCode/dotnet-ai-toolkit. It costs 139 tokens per session (2,420 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for moving a .NET Framework solution from individual packages.config files to PackageReference and Central Package Management. .NET Framework is the older Windows-focused .NET platform, while these formats define how NuGet dependencies are listed and versioned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to migrate packages.config files, add PackageReference entries, create Directory.Packages.props, and centralize NuGet versions across projects.
Why use it?
It creates one shared place for package versions across a solution and reduces version drift, where different projects accidentally use different versions of the same library.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dotnet-ai-toolkit plugin — 49 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to migrate packages.config files, add PackageReference entries, create Directory.Packages.props, and centralize NuGet versions across projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stefanthecode/dotnet-ai-toolkit/legacy-package-migrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add StefanTheCode/dotnet-ai-toolkit --skill legacy-package-migrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StefanTheCode/dotnet-ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills.

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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,420 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 79
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00139 $0.02420
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.00968
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00484
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00242

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f08f9039393a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legacy-package-migrator 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.

skills/legacy-package-migrator/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Legacy Package Migrator (packages.config -> PackageReference -> CPM)

Move a .NET Framework solution off packages.config and onto PackageReference, then lift all versions into a single Directory.Packages.props using Central Package Management (CPM). The goal is one source of truth for every NuGet version across every project -- including third-party extension projects -- so nobody ends up with two versions of the same package in one solution.

Input — point it at your code

You don't need pasted files. Work from whatever target the user gives:

  • A solution / repo root — the .sln and every project under it
  • A folder — scan for packages.config, *.csproj, app.config/web.config
  • A single project — one .csproj + its packages.config
  • A GitHub URL — clone first: git clone --depth 1 <url> /tmp/repo && cd /tmp/repo

Discover the packaging state yourself with Glob/Grep/Bash instead of asking for a paste:

grep -rl "packages.config" <target> | grep -vi "/obj/\|/bin/"
# version drift across the solution:
grep -rhn "id=\"Newtonsoft.Json\"" --include=packages.config <target>
grep -rn "<PackageReference" --include=*.csproj <target>

Tell the user which projects you scanned, and always show the drift inventory before writing Directory.Packages.props.

When this runs

The user has a packages.config-based solution (usually .NET Framework, often many projects) and wants to modernize package management, pin transitive versions, or stop version drift across modules and vendor extensions. They may point at a folder, paste a .csproj / packages.config, or just describe the mess.

If you don't have the files, ask for: the solution's project list, one representative .csproj + its packages.config, and whether third-party/vendor projects live in the same solution or reference the same packages.

Why this order matters

Do it in two stages, never one. Each stage is independently verifiable and revertible:

  1. Stage 1 -- packages.config -> PackageReference (per project). Behavior-preserving; versions still live in each .csproj.
  2. Stage 2 -- PackageReference -> Central Package Management. Hoist every version into one Directory.Packages.props; strip versions from projects.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 2mo ago First seen · 162 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A f08f9039393a

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legacy-package-migrator is a skill published in the GitHub repository StefanTheCode/dotnet-ai-toolkit (26 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 2,420 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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