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dotnet-project-init

dotnet-project-init is a skill for Claude Code from zdanovichnick/dotnet-pilot. It costs 29 tokens per session (878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery process for understanding a .NET solution, including its projects, target frameworks, dependencies, test tools, database contexts, and architecture. .NET is Microsoft's platform for building applications, and a solution groups related projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before working on a .NET codebase to locate solution files, inspect project references and packages, identify test and database tooling, and understand project structure.
Why use it?
It gives later coding work the project context needed to choose compatible commands and patterns. It also identifies how the solution is built, tested, and connected internally.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the dotnet-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 9 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 5repo changed 29d ago A scan 29 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it before working on a .NET codebase to locate solution files, inspect project references and packages, identify test and database tooling, and understand project structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zdanovichnick/dotnet-pilot/dotnet-project-init
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zdanovichnick/dotnet-pilot --skill dotnet-project-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zdanovichnick/dotnet-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dotnet-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 9 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 878 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 $0.00029 $0.00878
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00351
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00088

Measured 29d ago against content hash 7b62f4e01da5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-project-init 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 29d 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-project-init/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

.NET Project Initialization Skill

This skill discovers everything about a .NET solution needed for DotnetPilot to operate effectively.

Discovery Protocol

1. Solution File

  • Search for *.slnx (modern) or *.sln (legacy) in current directory
  • If multiple solutions: stop and return [HALT: which solution — <list>?] so the invoking command asks the user; don't pick one
  • Parse project references from solution file

2. Per-Project Analysis

For each project in the solution:

dotnet list <project.csproj> reference    # project references
dotnet list <project.csproj> package      # NuGet packages

Parse .csproj for:

  • <TargetFramework> → net8.0, net9.0, net10.0, etc. Multi-targeted projects use <TargetFrameworks> (plural, ;-separated) — record every entry, and pass -f <tfm> to dotnet ef / dotnet test when a command must target one
  • Properties can be inherited: check Directory.Build.props up the directory tree for TargetFramework, Nullable, LangVersion, and so on
  • <OutputType> → Exe, Library
  • <Sdk> → Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web (web), Microsoft.NET.Sdk (classlib)
  • <IsPackable> → library intended for NuGet distribution
  • <RootNamespace> → namespace convention

Central Package Management: when Directory.Packages.props exists with <ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>true</ManagePackageVersionsCentrally>, <PackageReference> items carry no Version. Versions live in <PackageVersion> items in that file, and new packages must be added there, not in the .csproj. dotnet list package still reports the resolved versions.

3. Framework Detection

Indicator Detection
Test runner xUnit v2 → xunit; xUnit v3 → xunit.v3; NUnit → NUnit; MSTest → MSTest.TestAdapter or <Project Sdk="MSTest.Sdk/…"> (no package reference at all); TUnit → TUnit
Mocking Moq, NSubstitute, FakeItEasy in test project packages
Assertions FluentAssertions, Shouldly in test project packages
ORM Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore → EF Core; Dapper → Dapper
Validation FluentValidation or DataAnnotations (check for [Required] attributes)
CQRS MediatR package presence
Mapping AutoMapper or Mapster package presence
API style [ApiController] attribute → controllers; MapGet/MapPost → minimal API

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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.

  1. 29d ago Changed · +10 lines 7b62f4e01da5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 339df5e3458c

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dotnet-project-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository zdanovichnick/dotnet-pilot (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 878 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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