skills README

The project's README from github.com/dotnet/skills. As one markdown file: README.md.

.NET Agent Skills

Dashboard

This repository contains the .NET team's curated set of core skills and 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.

What's Included

Plugin Description
dotnet C# language server (LSP) integration for coding agents and high-level .NET development skills.
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 an 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.
dotnet11 Skills for new .NET 11 APIs and language features.

Installation

🚀 Plugins - Copilot CLI / Claude Code

  1. Launch Copilot CLI or Claude Code
  2. Add the marketplace:
    /plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills
  3. Install a plugin:
    /plugin install <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills
  4. Restart to load the new plugins
  5. View available skills:
    /skills
  6. View available agents:
    /agents
  7. Update plugin (on demand):
    /plugin update <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills

VS Code / VS Code Insiders (Preview)

[!IMPORTANT]
VS Code plugin support is a preview feature and subject to change. You may need to enable it first.

// settings.json
{
  "chat.plugins.enabled": true,
  "chat.plugins.marketplaces": ["dotnet/skills"]
}

Once configured, type /plugins in Copilot Chat or use the @agentPlugins filter in Extensions to browse and install plugins from the marketplace.

Cursor

This repository is a Cursor plugin marketplace. You can discover and install published plugins directly in Cursor:

  1. Open the marketplace panel in Cursor
  2. Search for .NET or browse cursor.com/marketplace
  3. Install the desired plugins

For local development or unpublished changes, import plugins from a local checkout:

  1. Copy or symlink your local checkout to ~/.cursor/plugins/local/dotnet-agent-skills
  2. Restart Cursor or run Developer: Reload Window

Codex CLI

Skills in this repository follow the agentskills.io open standard and are compatible with OpenAI Codex.

Codex CLI v0.121.0 and later supports a plugin marketplace. This repository ships a Codex-native marketplace manifest at .agents/plugins/marketplace.json, so you can register dotnet/skills as a marketplace and install plugins from it directly.

  1. Add the marketplace:
    codex plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills
  2. Launch Codex and open the plugin browser:
    /plugins
  3. Browse the dotnet-agent-skills tab and install the desired plugins.
  4. Update plugins on demand:
    codex plugin marketplace upgrade dotnet-agent-skills

Individual skills

You can also install individual skills using the skill-installer CLI with the GitHub URL:

$ skill-installer install https://github.com/dotnet/skills/tree/main/plugins/<plugin>/skills/<skill-name>

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines and how to add a new plugin.

License

See LICENSE for details.

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这是什么？它是 .NET 团队精心整理的一套技能（skills）和自定义智能体（agents），可以接入 AI 编程智能体，让它们在 .NET 和 C# 开发任务上获得专家级的帮助。
那我实际安装的是什么——是一个应用，还是我的编程智能体会加载的东西？是插件，不是应用。这个仓库可以当作编程智能体的插件市场来用：每个插件打包了一组遵循 agentskills.io 开放标准的技能，你只需要安装自己用得上的那些。
怎么把它们装到我的编程智能体里？在 Copilot CLI 或 Claude Code 里：先添加这个市场，安装插件，然后重启让它加载。Cursor 有自己的市场面板，Codex CLI v0.121.0+ 则通过 .agents/plugins/marketplace.json 原生注册同一个市场。
哪些编程智能体能用它？支持 Copilot CLI、Claude Code、Cursor 和 OpenAI Codex。VS Code 和 VS Code Insiders 也能用，但只是预览版功能，可能需要先手动开启。
安装之前有什么坑需要知道？VS Code 的插件支持官方明确说是预览版——随时可能变动，而且在插件出现在 Copilot Chat 之前，你可能需要先手动启用这个功能。各个 CLI 智能体和 Cursor 则按文档里的市场流程走就行。
它在我的电脑上能用吗，还是只能配合 Windows 上的 Visual Studio？这些技能运行在你的编程智能体内部，所以智能体能在哪儿跑，它们就能在哪儿用——包括 Claude Code、Copilot CLI、Codex CLI、Cursor 和 VS Code 的 Windows、macOS 和 Linux 版本。
基础的 dotnet 插件给我的智能体加了什么？为编程智能体接入了 C# 语言服务器（LSP），还带了一整套 .NET 开发的高阶技能——这样智能体就能借助真正的语言工具来干活。
我维护一个老的 .NET Framework 应用——这些技能能帮我把它现代化吗？可以——dotnet-upgrade 覆盖跨框架版本、语言特性和兼容性目标的迁移，dotnet-test-migration 则能把 xUnit 测试套件转换成 MSTest，并把项目从 VSTest 迁到 Microsoft.Testing.Platform。
我怎么判断一个技能值不值得花那些 token？这个仓库自带一个 Skill Value 仪表盘：展示 token 用量、耗时、激活率和未通过率，可以按插件、技能、执行模型和评审模型分别查看。
它涵盖用 C# 做 AI 开发吗？涵盖——dotnet-ai 插件涉及技术选型、LLM 集成、智能体工作流、RAG 流水线、MCP，以及用 ML.NET 做经典机器学习。
What are similar projects?superpowers-zh, agents, unity-mcp, awesome-copilot, headroom, skills, compound-engineering-plugin, planning-with-files
Which topics is it in?blazor, migration, marketplace, github-copilot, vscode, dotnet, c#, csharp, cursor, testing, coding-agent, plugin
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