Repository
dotnet/core agent skills
- skills
- 15
- official
- 15
- GitHub stars
- 22k
GitHub description: “.NET news, announcements, release notes, and more!”
- Stars
- 22,038 (4,934 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Nov 2014
- Homepage
- dot.net
- Source
- github.com/dotnet/core
- dotnet
- dotnet-core
Install all skills
npx skills add dotnet/coreAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in dotnet/core, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Audits and updates os-packages.json files listing the Linux packages each .NET release needs per distro, then regenerates the Markdown from the JSON. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 2 | Audits and updates the supported-os.json files for .NET releases, checking them against upstream lifecycle data and regenerating the markdown with the release-notes tool. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 3 | Validates .NET release data with the release-notes CLI: download URL liveness, SHA512 hashes, CDN latest.version files and aka.ms redirects. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 4 | Produces the changes.json manifest for a .NET preview, RC or GA milestone by choosing the right VMR base and head refs and running release-notes generate changes. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 5 | Ranks the changes in a release manifest and writes a scored features file that release notes, docs and blog posts can each cut at their own threshold. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 6 | Audits a scored features.json file and its draft release notes against editorial examples to catch over-scored, under-scored, or missing entries. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 7 | Creates and maintains the per-distro JSON files that list the native packages .NET needs on each Linux distribution, scoped to one .NET version. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 8 | Regenerates the HAL+JSON .NET release information graph from source data when new releases, CVE data or lifecycle dates change. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 9 | Generates before and after .NET public API diff reports for a release milestone by running RunApiDiff.ps1, including a table mapping plain-language requests to its parameters. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~792 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 10 | Verifies that APIs listed in a generated .NET API diff exist in the shipped build and trace to real pull requests, before release notes are written. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~992 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 11 | Scores candidate features by how much a developer upgrading would care, giving a shared rubric and cut guidance for release notes, blog posts and docs. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 12 | Creates the GitHub release discussion in dotnet/core and the locked mirror issue in dotnet/announcements for a .NET release, safely re-runnable after interruptions. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 13 | Refreshes an existing .NET release-notes milestone branch set incrementally, regenerating data only when the preview moved and keeping human edits and review replies. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 14 | Builds and runs the code snippets behind .NET release-note features against the exact milestone SDK, and records what must change to move maintained samples to a new preview. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 15 | Writes and maintains .NET preview, RC and GA release notes from a scored features.json, working with sibling skills for change data, API diffs, code sample checks and review. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in dotnet/core?
Update .NET OS Packages (official) from dotnet/core ranks first of the 15 skills in dotnet/core listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 22k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Update .NET Supported OS Matrix and .NET Release Verification.
Are the skills in dotnet/core official?
15 of the 15 skills in dotnet/core are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Update .NET OS Packages, Update .NET Supported OS Matrix, .NET Release Verification, Generate .NET Release changes.json, Release Feature Scoring and 10 more.
How do I install all skills from dotnet/core?
Run npx skills add dotnet/core in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.