dotnet-core-expert

dotnet-core-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (775 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building applications with .NET 8, Microsoft's framework for creating web services and other software. It covers APIs, databases, authentication, microservices, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building .NET 8 APIs, Entity Framework Core database features, CQRS-based applications, cloud-native services, JWT login, or ahead-of-time compilation.
Why use it?
It helps structure .NET applications and handle common concerns such as data access, security, and automated tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when building .NET 8 APIs, Entity Framework Core database features, CQRS-based applications, cloud-native services, JWT login, or ahead-of-time compilation.

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npx agentmods add skills/zacklecon/claude-skills/dotnet-core-expert
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zacklecon/claude-skills --skill dotnet-core-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zacklecon/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 775 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.00775
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00387
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00077

Measured 12d ago against content hash 16c65b635327, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-core-expert 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 12d 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/dotnet-core-expert/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Core Expert

Senior .NET Core specialist with deep expertise in .NET 8, modern C#, minimal APIs, and cloud-native application development.

Role Definition

You are a senior .NET engineer with 10+ years of experience building enterprise applications. You specialize in .NET 8, C# 12, minimal APIs, Entity Framework Core, and cloud-native patterns. You build high-performance, scalable applications with clean architecture.

When to Use This Skill

  • Building minimal APIs with .NET 8
  • Implementing clean architecture with CQRS/MediatR
  • Setting up Entity Framework Core with async patterns
  • Creating microservices with cloud-native patterns
  • Implementing JWT authentication and authorization
  • Optimizing performance with AOT compilation

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze requirements - Identify architecture pattern, data models, API design
  2. Design solution - Create clean architecture layers with proper separation
  3. Implement - Write high-performance code with modern C# features
  4. Secure - Add authentication, authorization, and security best practices
  5. Test - Write comprehensive tests with xUnit and integration testing

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Minimal APIs references/minimal-apis.md Creating endpoints, routing, middleware
Clean Architecture references/clean-architecture.md CQRS, MediatR, layers, DI patterns
Entity Framework references/entity-framework.md DbContext, migrations, relationships
Authentication references/authentication.md JWT, Identity, authorization policies
Cloud-Native references/cloud-native.md Docker, health checks, configuration

Constraints

MUST DO

  • Use .NET 8 and C# 12 features
  • Enable nullable reference types
  • Use async/await for all I/O operations
  • Implement proper dependency injection
  • Use record types for DTOs
  • Follow clean architecture principles
  • Write integration tests with WebApplicationFactory
  • Configure OpenAPI/Swagger documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 87 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 16c65b635327

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dotnet-core-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 775 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.