aspire

aspire is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment. It costs 224 tokens per session (2,674 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A top-level workflow for Aspire distributed applications. Aspire is a .NET tool for describing, running, and deploying applications made of multiple services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps operate AppHost resources, start and stop Aspire applications, inspect resources, deploy them, destroy deployments, and route initial setup work.
Why use it?
It detects the application’s AppHost and directs work to the right workflow, reducing the chance of using unsuitable commands or missing safety rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/aspire
Any agent
npx skills add thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment --skill aspire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 224 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,674 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00224 $0.02674
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00267

Measured 5d ago against content hash e4a9b52dafb5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aspire scanned grade C with 2 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 5d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

| Aspire CLI (curl/PowerShell) | `curl -sSL https://aspire.dev/install.sh \| bash` |

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Aspire CLI (curl/PowerShell) | `curl -sSL https://aspire.dev/install.sh \| bash` |
agentgateway-entraid-obo/.claude/skills/aspire/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aspire

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

Detection

Activate when ANY signal is present. Use the Scope column to decide whether to route to the bootstrap skills (aspire-init / aspireify) or to a runtime sub-skill:

Signal How to Detect Confidence Scope
C# AppHost .csproj containing Aspire.AppHost.Sdk ✅ Definitive AppHost present → orchestration / deployment / monitoring
File-based C# AppHost apphost.cs with #:sdk Aspire.AppHost.Sdk ✅ Definitive AppHost present → orchestration / deployment / monitoring
TypeScript AppHost apphost.ts file in project ✅ Definitive AppHost present → orchestration / deployment / monitoring
Aspire config without AppHost aspire.config.json present and no AppHost above High Bootstrap → aspireify (skeleton dropped, needs wiring)
Aspire config with AppHost aspire.config.json present and AppHost above High AppHost present → orchestration / deployment / monitoring
Aspire settings .aspire/ directory present High AppHost present (usually)
Generated TS modules .aspire/modules/ directory present High AppHost present (TS)
Service defaults Aspire.ServiceDefaults in project references Medium AppHost present
No AppHost, no aspire.config.json None of the above and user asks to add Aspire n/a Bootstrap → aspire-init (skeleton drop)

Default Workflow

  1. Bootstrap branch — if no AppHost exists in the repo, route to aspire-init for the skeleton drop. If an AppHost stub exists but is unwired (no resources declared), route to aspireify. Only continue with the steps below once a wired AppHost is present.
  2. Confirm workspace is Aspire — identify the AppHost
  3. aspire start (or aspire start --isolated in worktrees or whenever shared local state is risky)
  4. aspire wait <resource> before interacting with any resource
  5. Inspect state with aspire describe, aspire otel logs, aspire logs, aspire otel traces, and aspire export before making code changes
  6. Before adding integrations, use aspire integration search <query> when the package is unknown, then aspire add <package> when ready to mutate the AppHost
  7. When code changes, decide whether the AppHost model changed or only one resource changed. Re-run aspire start after AppHost changes; otherwise prefer resource commands, runtime watch/HMR, dashboard actions, or IDE-managed debugging as appropriate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 5d ago First seen · 160 lines · 224 tokens per session scan C e4a9b52dafb5

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aspire is a skill published in the GitHub repository thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 224 tokens to every session and 2,674 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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