AI
Plugins and skills
Plugins and skills that teach AI coding assistants .NET work: EF Core, testing, MSBuild, diagnostics, upgrades and more. Collected every morning from selected GitHub repositories; each one is reviewed and summed up in a sentence before it is listed.
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item-management Official
Has the assistant check and fix MSBuild ItemGroup Include, Remove, Update, batching and duplicate item problems in .NET project files.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill item-management -a cursor -
msbuild-antipatterns Official
Has the assistant audit project and build files for MSBuild anti-patterns such as Exec misuse, unquoted conditions and hardcoded paths, returning prioritized findings without editing.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill msbuild-antipatterns -a cursor -
msbuild-modernization Official
Has the assistant convert legacy .csproj files to SDK-style, move packages.config to PackageReference, and consolidate shared settings into Directory.Build.props.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill msbuild-modernization -a cursor -
property-patterns Official
Has the assistant find and fix MSBuild property defects such as bad conditions, defaults, append-versus-overwrite mistakes and path normalization.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill property-patterns -a cursor -
resolve-project-references Official
Has the assistant explain that ResolveProjectReferences time is mostly wait time for dependent builds and find the real bottleneck via task self-time in MSBuild summaries.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill resolve-project-references -a cursor -
troubleshoot-binlog-mcp Official
Has the assistant find why the binlog MCP server fails to start, checking the SDK, global.json, NuGet sources and source mapping before suggesting a policy-safe fix.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill troubleshoot-binlog-mcp -a cursor -
convert-to-cpm Official
Has the assistant move .NET projects and solutions to NuGet Central Package Management via Directory.Packages.props, resolve version conflicts, and validate builds with binlog comparison.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill convert-to-cpm -a cursor -
template-authoring Official
Has the assistant turn an existing project into a dotnet new template, with a correct template.json, parameters, conditional XML and NuGet template packaging.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill template-authoring -a cursor -
template-comparison Official
Has the assistant compare several dotnet new templates side by side on parameters, features and frameworks to help pick one.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill template-comparison -a cursor -
template-discovery Official
Has the assistant find the right dotnet new template for a task and inspect its parameters and generated files before creating a project.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill template-discovery -a cursor