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thread-abort-migration Guides migration of .NET Framework Thread.Abort usage to cooperative cancellation in modern .NET. USE FOR: modernizin…

maui-app-lifecycle .NET MAUI app lifecycle guidance — the four app states, cross-platform Window lifecycle events (Created, Activated, D…

template-discovery Helps find, inspect, and compare (at a high level) .NET project templates. Resolves natural-language project descript…

template-instantiation Creates .NET projects from templates with validated parameters, smart defaults, Central Package Management adaptation…

migrate-static-to-wrapper ALWAYS USE when asked to migrate, replace, or make testable existing C# static calls with a named wrapper or built-in…

android-tombstone-symbolication Symbolicate the .NET runtime frames in an Android tombstone file. Extracts BuildIds and PC offsets from the native ba…

migrate-xunit-to-xunit-v3 Migrate .NET test projects from xUnit.net v2 to xunit.v3 and fix v3 breaks. Use for package/CPM conversion, OutputTyp…

migrate-vstest-to-mtp Use this skill before answering, planning, or editing whenever .NET tests or CI are switching from VSTest to Microsof…

test-tagging Classifies existing tests by standard traits and reports their distribution. USE FOR: tagging all tests with category…

template-authoring Guides creation and validation of custom dotnet new templates from existing projects. Generates a .template.config/te…

migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3 Use this skill before answering or editing whenever an MSTest v1/v2 project is being upgraded or repaired for v3. Tri…

migrate-mstest-v3-to-v4 Use this skill before answering, planning, or editing any MSTest 3.x-to-4.x upgrade or post-upgrade failure. Triggers…

maui-data-binding Guidance for .NET MAUI XAML and C# data bindings — compiled bindings, INotifyPropertyChanged / ObservableObject, valu…

maui-dependency-injection Guidance for configuring dependency injection in .NET MAUI apps — service registration in MauiProgram.cs, lifetime se…

maui-theming Guide for theming .NET MAUI apps — light/dark mode via AppThemeBinding, ResourceDictionary theme switching, DynamicRe…

template-validation Validates custom dotnet new templates for correctness before publishing. Catches missing fields, parameter bugs, shor…

maui-collectionview Guidance for implementing CollectionView in .NET MAUI apps — data display, layouts (list & grid), selection, grouping…

maui-shell-navigation Guide for implementing Shell-based navigation in .NET MAUI apps. Covers AppShell setup, visual hierarchy (FlyoutItem,…

maui-safe-area .NET MAUI safe area and edge-to-edge layout guidance for .NET 10+. Covers the new SafeAreaEdges property, SafeAreaReg…

system-text-json-net11 Imperative guidance for the System.Text.Json APIs added in .NET 11: the built-in `JsonNamingPolicy.PascalCase` naming…

apple-crash-symbolication Symbolicate .NET runtime frames in Apple platform .ips crash logs (iOS, tvOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS). Extracts UUIDs an…

configure-auth Add authentication and authorization to a Blazor Web App, accounting for the app's render mode. USE WHEN the user nee…

fetch-and-send-data Call APIs, load data into components, and handle the async lifecycle in Blazor. USE FOR fetching data from a backend,…

grade-tests Grade specified test methods individually and produce a concise PR-ready table with each fully qualified test name, a…

find-untested-sources MANDATORY for static source-to-test pairing: find or list source files/modules without corresponding tests, or sugges…

test-analysis-extensions Provides file paths to language-specific reference files for the test ANALYSIS skills (assertion-quality, test-anti-p…

author-component Create or review Blazor components (.razor files) with correct architecture. USE FOR: writing new Blazor components t…

property-patterns MSBuild property definition patterns: conditional defaults, composition/concatenation, path normalization, trailing-s…

create-blazor-project Create a new ASP.NET Core web application or web site using Blazor. USE FOR: creating a new Blazor web app, scaffoldi…

authoring-github-workflows Author and review GitHub Actions workflow YAML safely so syntactically-valid YAML can't ship a workflow that GitHub A…

coordinate-components Share state between components that don't have a direct parent-child parameter relationship, using cascading values, …

collect-user-input Build forms, validate data, and react to user input in Blazor. USE FOR adding forms, search boxes, filter panels, inl…

item-management Patterns for managing MSBuild item groups: Include/Remove/Update semantics, item metadata, batching with %(Metadata),…

plan-ui-change Plan complex Blazor UI features by decomposing them into focused components. USE FOR: building a complex Blazor page …

extension-points Guide for MSBuild extensibility: CustomBefore/CustomAfter hooks, wildcard imports with alphabetic ordering, import ga…

convert-blazor-server-to-webapp Guides conversion of a pre-.NET 8 Blazor Server app into a .NET 8+ Blazor Web App. USE FOR: migrating apps that use A…

use-js-interop Add, review, or fix JavaScript interop in Blazor components. USE FOR: calling JavaScript from Blazor, calling .NET fr…

target-authoring Canonical patterns for writing custom MSBuild targets. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing custom target authoring anti-pa…

support-prerendering Make interactive Blazor components work correctly with prerendering. USE FOR fixing duplicate data loads, UI flicker …

setup-local-sdk Install a .NET SDK locally for safe preview testing, specific-version pinning, or reproducible team setups — without …

migrate-xunit-to-mstest Convert .NET tests from xUnit.net v2/v3 to MSTest v4 while preserving VSTest or MTP. Use for replacing xunit packages…

agentic-workflows Route gh-aw workflow design/create/debug/upgrade requests to the right prompts.

template-smart-defaults Applies cross-parameter default rules when creating .NET projects with dotnet new, filling gaps consistently without …

template-comparison Compares two or more dotnet new templates side by side to help users choose between them based on parameters, feature…

create-datadriven-aspnetcore Generate or scaffold ASP.NET Core code — Razor Pages, Blazor components, MVC controllers, views, and Minimal API endp…

copy-to-output-directory Choosing an MSBuild CopyToOutputDirectory / CopyToPublishDirectory mode: Never, PreserveNewest, Always, and IfDiffere…

minimal-api-file-upload File upload endpoints in ASP.NET minimal APIs (.NET 8+)

scaffold-dotnet-test-project MUST USE when an existing .NET test project was excluded from a .slnf/CI solution filter, disappeared from .sln/.slnx…

improve-skill-quality Diagnoses and fixes skills in the dotnet/skills repository that lose to their own baseline, fail to activate, time ou…

testability-obstacle MUST USE for C#/.NET deterministic tests that require the smallest production seam for DateTime/Task.Delay/File/Envir…