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.
npx skills add thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment --skill aspire-orchestrationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thangchung/agent-engineering-experimentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/aspire-orchestration)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/aspire-orchestration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/aspire-orchestration/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/aspire-orchestration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/aspire-orchestration.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00168 | $0.03275 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00084 | $0.01638 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00655 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00328 |
Grade C, and why
aspire-orchestration 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 9d 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` | How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Aspire Orchestration
MANDATORY COMPLIANCE — This skill prevents agent self-harm in Aspire projects. Violating these rules causes file locks, orphaned processes, and user frustration (#15801).
Prerequisites
| Requirement | Install |
|---|---|
| .NET 10.0 SDK | https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download |
| Aspire CLI (curl/PowerShell) | curl -sSL https://aspire.dev/install.sh | bash |
| Aspire CLI (NativeAOT global tool, .NET 10) | dotnet tool install -g Aspire.Cli |
Either install method works. The dotnet tool install path produces a NativeAOT binary
(instant startup, no JIT warmup) and is the recommended option when .NET 10 is already present.
Detection
Activate when ANY signal is present:
| Signal | How to Detect | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| C# AppHost | .csproj containing Aspire.AppHost.Sdk |
✅ Definitive |
| File-based C# AppHost | apphost.cs or .cs file with #:sdk Aspire.AppHost.Sdk |
✅ Definitive |
| TypeScript AppHost | apphost.ts file in project |
✅ Definitive |
| Aspire config | aspire.config.json in project root |
High |
| Aspire settings | .aspire/ directory present |
High |
| Generated TS modules | .aspire/modules/ directory present |
High |
| Service defaults | Aspire.ServiceDefaults in project references |
Medium |
See detection.md for detailed fingerprinting.
Safety Guardrails
| Situation | ✅ ALWAYS Do | ❌ NEVER Do |
|---|---|---|
| Start an Aspire app | aspire start |
dotnet run on AppHost |
| Wait for resource ready | aspire wait <resource> |
curl / HTTP polling loops |
| Code changed in a resource | Prefer resource commands, runtime watch/HMR, dashboard actions, or IDE-managed debugging | dotnet build against locked files |
| Task complete | aspire stop |
Leave processes running |
| Check resource status | aspire describe / aspire ps |
Manual process inspection |
| Working in git worktree | aspire start --isolated |
aspire start without isolation |
| Running from AI agent | Add --non-interactive to all commands |
Assuming interactive terminal |
| Editing unfamiliar API | aspire docs search <topic> then aspire docs api search <query> for API reference |
Guessing API shape |
| C# AppHost API inspection | Use dotnet-inspect skill (if available) for local symbols |
Guessing overloads or builder chains |
| Adding custom dashboard/resource commands | aspire docs search "custom resource commands" first |
Inventing WithCommand patterns without docs |
| Installing Aspire support | Use aspire add or aspire init |
dotnet workload install aspire |
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 205 lines · 168 tokens per session scan C 3efcb5ad2e0f
aspire-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 3,275 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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