dotnet / skills

# .NET Agent Skills
This repository contains the .NET team's curated set of portable skills and host-specific custom
agents for coding agents. For information about the Agent Skills standard, see
agentskills.io.
> [!TIP]
> **Compare skill value:** Open the Skill Value dashboard
> See token use, elapsed time, activation, and not-passed rates by plugin, skill,
> executor model, and judge model.
Plugin support is component-specific:
- Skills and MCP servers are the portable component types defined by
 Agent Plugins 1.0.
- Files under `agents/*.agent.md` use GitHub Copilot custom-agent conventions. They are not
 installed as native OpenAI Codex agents.
- Native Codex agents use `.codex/agents/*.toml`. This repository does not currently ship them
 because Codex plugin installation does not place agent files in those discovery locations.
## What's Included
| Plugin | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| dotnet | High-level .NET development skills plus C# language server (LSP) integration for hosts that support it. |
| dotnet-advanced | Collection of .NET skills for handling specific .NET tasks for special scenarios. |
| dotnet-data | Skills for .NET data access and Entity Framework related tasks. |
| dotnet-diag | Skills for .NET performance investigations, debugging, and incident analysis. |
| dotnet-msbuild | Comprehensive MSBuild and .NET build skills: failure diagnosis, performance optimization, code quality, and modernization. |
| dotnet-nuget | NuGet and .NET package management: dependency management and modernization. |
| dotnet-upgrade | Skills for migrating and upgrading .NET projects across framework versions, language features, and compatibility targets. |
| dotnet-maui | Skills for .NET MAUI development: environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting. |
| dotnet-ai | AI and ML skills for .NET: technology selection, LLM integration, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP, and classic ML with ML.NET. |
| dotnet-template-engine | .NET Template Engine skills: template discovery, project scaffolding, and template authoring. |
| dotnet-test | Skills for running, generating, analyzing, and improving .NET tests: test execution, filtering, platform detection, coverage, testability, and MSTest workflows. |
| dotnet-test-migration | Skills and a GitHub Copilot orchestrator agent for migrating .NET test frameworks and platforms: MSTest and xUnit version upgrades, xUnit-to-MSTest conversion, and VSTest to Microsoft.Testing.Platform. |
| dotnet-aspnetcore | ASP.NET Core web development skills including middleware, endpoints, real-time communication, and API patterns. |
| dotnet-blazor | Skills for Blazor development: component authoring, interactivity, and web application patterns. |
| dotnet-winforms | Skills for Windows Forms development: project setup, UI design, data binding, accessibility, and modern .NET practices. |
| dotnet11 | Skills for new .NET 11 APIs and language features. |
## Agentic Workflows
Reusable GitHub Agentic Workflows are