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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aspire Official
Has the assistant detect the Aspire AppHost, route the task to the matching Aspire sub-skill, and run AppHost operations through the Aspire CLI instead of ad-hoc dotnet or docker commands.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills --skill aspire -a cursor -
aspire-deployment Official
Has the assistant run Aspire deploy, publish and teardown steps from the AppHost model to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure or AWS using the Aspire CLI.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills --skill aspire-deployment -a cursor -
aspire-monitoring Official
Has the assistant inspect local Aspire app logs, traces, resource state and telemetry export, and route deployed issues to AKS or Azure diagnostics.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills --skill aspire-monitoring -a cursor -
aspire-orchestration Official
Has the assistant start, stop and restart the right Aspire AppHost through editor tools or the Aspire CLI, avoiding file locks, port conflicts and orphaned processes.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills --skill aspire-orchestration -a cursor -
aspire-project-v2-migration Official
Has the assistant assess Aspire 13.6+ AppHost project resources and, after approval of exact edits, migrate them from legacy ProjectResource APIs to DotnetProjectResource.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills --skill aspire-project-v2-migration -a cursor -
aspireify Official
Has the assistant scan a .NET repo, propose an Aspire resource graph, wire the AppHost and ServiceDefaults with OTel, and validate it with aspire start.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills --skill aspireify -a cursor -
akka-net-aspire-configuration
Has the assistant set up an Akka.NET app under .NET Aspire step by step, covering cluster setup, persistence with SQL Server, and local and production deployment.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills --skill akka-net-aspire-configuration -a cursor -
akka-net-management
Has the assistant replace static seed nodes with Kubernetes, Azure or config-based discovery for Akka.NET clusters and add health endpoints.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills --skill akka-net-management -a cursor -
aspire-configuration
Has the assistant map Aspire AppHost resource outputs to explicit environment variables and keep Aspire client packages out of application code.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills --skill aspire-configuration -a cursor -
aspire-service-defaults
Has the assistant set up a shared ServiceDefaults project that configures OpenTelemetry, health checks, HTTP resilience and service discovery once for all Aspire services.
Install for CursorNot in Cursor's marketplace; install it on its own.
npx skills add Aaronontheweb/dotnet-skills --skill aspire-service-defaults -a cursor