* Dashboards series fix (followup)
* Fix deploy-dashboard condition for workflow_dispatch
The deploy-dashboard job required needs.discover.result == 'success',
but the discover job's condition does not include workflow_dispatch,
so it is always skipped for manual triggers. This made workflow_dispatch
unable to deploy the dashboard.
Split the condition so workflow_dispatch from main bypasses the
discover dependency, while scheduled runs still require it.
* Update deploy-dashboard comment to reflect workflow_dispatch support
* add a new dotnet11 plugin and a new system text json skill to it.
* Update plugins/dotnet11/skills/system-text-json-net11/SKILL.md
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* added the option to run dotnet11 skills. by default they don't get included
* Update tests/dotnet11/system-text-json-net11/eval.yaml
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* Add JSON output assertions to system-text-json-net11 eval.yaml
Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/skills/sessions/8e302f3f-4328-44a0-845d-4eb0c930af63
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* addressed CR comments
* addressed more CR comments
* fixed agument to pass while enabling dotnet11 skills
* Remove dotnet11-specific filtering from skill-validator and evaluation workflow
Now that .NET 11 is the default SDK for the repo (global.json updated on main),
there is no need for special dotnet11 exclusion logic. The dotnet11 plugin skills
are treated like any other plugin and included in all evaluation runs.
Changes:
- Remove --include-dotnet11 CLI option and filtering logic from EvaluateCommand.cs
- Remove IncludeDotnet11 from ValidatorConfig model
- Remove --dotnet11 flag parsing from evaluation workflow gate job
- Remove dotnet11 exclusion logic from discover job
- Remove conditional .NET 11 preview SDK install step (global.json handles it)
- Remove dotnet11 from excludeFromSchedule list
- Remove all dotnet11-specific warning/status messages
- Remove section 9 from InvestigatingResults.md
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* address code review comments after rebase
* added the plugin to cursor and added MIT license to skill
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Adds a new agentic workflow (.github/workflows/markdown-linter.md) that
runs Super Linter on weekdays at 2 PM UTC and on manual dispatch. The
agent analyzes linter output and creates GitHub issues with categorized
findings, severity breakdown, and fix recommendations.
Adapted from https://github.com/githubnext/agentics/blob/main/workflows/markdown-linter.md
with repo-specific conventions: PAT pool rotation, fork protection,
pinned action SHAs, scoped bash tools, and safe-outputs.
* Remove agentic workflows
The agentic workflows were useful when CCA didn't support loading skills. That's now solved and supported. The agentic workflows come with a couple of issues (limited chars) which make it hard to use. Remove them in favor of the plugin system.
* Remove Agentic Workflows section from README
Removed section about Agentic Workflows from README.
* Remove stale /agentic-workflows references from CONTRIBUTING.md, CODEOWNERS, and docs
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GITHUB_TOKEN cannot push commits that modify files under .github/workflows/.
This is a hard GitHub platform restriction (requires workflows scope, which
is only available via PAT or GitHub App tokens).
The workflow now:
- Runs gh aw upgrade (without --create-pull-request)
- Categorizes changes into pushable (outside .github/workflows/) and
non-pushable (inside .github/workflows/)
- Creates a PR with only the pushable changes (e.g. actions-lock.json)
- Documents any workflow files that need manual recompilation in the PR body
with instructions for running gh aw compile locally
Tested successfully on https://github.com/JanKrivanek/skills2/pull/1
* Add markdownlint analysis for local dev and CI
- Add .markdownlint.jsonc with rule configuration
- Add .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc with ignore patterns
- Add package.json with markdownlint-cli2 and lint scripts
- Add GitHub Actions workflow running on PRs touching *.md files
- Add VS Code extension recommendation for vscode-markdownlint
* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Address review comments: use markdownlint-cli2-action, merge configs, lint only changed files
- Replace manual Node.js + npm setup with DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action (pinned to SHA)
- Use tj-actions/changed-files to lint only PR-changed markdown files
- Merge .markdownlint.jsonc into .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc (single config file)
- Remove package.json and package-lock.json (no longer needed)
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* Add skill-coverage PR workflow with slash command support
- Auto-triggers on PRs that change plugins/** or tests/**
- Detects specific plugin/skill pairs from the PR diff
- Runs Measure-SkillCoverage.ps1 and posts a coverage report as a PR comment
- Supports /skill-coverage slash command on PR comments:
/skill-coverage (runs on changed skills in the PR)
/skill-coverage <plugin> (runs on all skills in the plugin)
/skill-coverage <plugin> <skill> (runs on a specific skill)
* Address Copilot review: security, permissions, and robustness fixes
- Add permission check: require write access before running slash command
- Tighten /skill-coverage matching to avoid false triggers on similar commands
- Add issues: write permission (PR comments use Issues API)
- Use refs/pull/<num>/head for checkout to support fork PRs
- Remove unused \ variable
- Fix multi-line JSON parsing with Out-String
* Address PR #538 review: fork PR handling, reactions, and sourcing note
- Skip PR comment posting for fork PRs (read-only token); coverage still runs in step summary
- Add continue-on-error to reaction step to avoid 403 failures
- Add header comment noting issue_comment trigger sources from default branch
- Add continue-on-error to no-changes comment step
* Split into analyze + comment jobs; fix pagination and dedup
Security:
- Split into two jobs: analyze (contents: read only) and comment (write only)
- Analyze job checks out base branch for trusted tooling, PR head into
a separate git worktree - untrusted PR code is never executed
- Comment job only reads an uploaded artifact, no PR code checkout
Fixes:
- Use github.paginate() for listComments to handle PRs with >100 comments
- Deduplicate targets: plugin-wide changes replace per-skill targets for
that plugin instead of producing duplicates
* Add SKILL.md for iOS crash symbolication process
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* Update plugins/dotnet/skills/ios-crash-symbolication/SKILL.md
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* Add automation script, tests, and review fixes for ios-crash-symbolication
- Add Symbolicate-Crash.ps1 (664 lines): parses .ips JSON, searches
local dSYMs (SDK packs, NuGet cache, user paths), verifies UUIDs via
dwarfdump, batch-symbolicates with atos, identifies runtime version
- Update SKILL.md: add Automation Script and Runtime Version
Identification sections, fix atos -o to point inside dSYM bundle,
add dwarfdump and MAUI to frontmatter, wrap steps in Workflow
heading for consistency with Android sibling, fix misleading
'rebuild' guidance per review feedback (Rolf)
- Add eval.yaml with 7 test scenarios: Mono crash, CoreCLR crash,
no .NET frames, NativeAOT, multi-library UUIDs, ASI field
priority, and Android tombstone rejection
- Add 5 .ips test fixture files (two-part JSON format)
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* Add iOS crash log and evaluation scenarios for symbolication tests
* Remove unused file
* Add CODEOWNERS entry for iOS crash symbolication
* Rename ios-crash-symbolication to apple-crash-symbolication
Address PR feedback to support all Apple platforms (tvOS, Mac Catalyst,
macOS) not just iOS:
- Add $appleRids array covering ios, tvos, maccatalyst, and osx RIDs
- Refactor Find-Dsym and Find-RuntimeVersion to search all platform packs
- Rewrite SKILL.md for orchestration focus and reduced token budget
- Extract domain knowledge to references/ips-crash-format.md
- Tune eval.yaml: outcome-based rubrics, broad assertions, overfit 0.26
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* Fix script robustness: base address parsing and null-safe property access
- Simplify base address cast to [uint64] without manual hex prefix stripping
- Use PSObject.Properties check before accessing lastExceptionBacktrace
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* Add dSYM-path rubric items to CoreCLR and ASI scenarios
Add rubric items testing for skill-specific domain knowledge (SDK pack
paths, NuGet cache directories) that baseline agents cannot provide.
This creates the quality delta needed to pass the 10% improvement
threshold while keeping overfit at 0.12 (Low).
3-run validation: 30.1% improvement, 5/7 scenarios positive.
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* Refactor code structure for improved readability and maintainability
* Fix crash symbolication script for real .ips format and improve eval scenarios
- Fix Symbolicate-Crash.ps1 strict-mode bugs with real .ips crash logs:
safe property access for image name/path (sentinel entries), thread name
(most threads unnamed), and single-element array unwrapping (.Count)
- Add SKILL.md efficiency guidance: resolve script path from skill directory
(no find /), start with -ParseOnly, don't run broad filesystem searches
- Reframe eval scenarios for platform-independent evaluation (parse/analyze
instead of requiring macOS-only atos/dwarfdump), tighten rubric to test
skill-specific knowledge (NuGet package name, all .NET binary images)
Validation results (3 runs, claude-opus-4.6):
Scenario 1 (parse frames): 3.3 → 4.0 (+0.7) ✅
Scenario 2 (investigate crash): 3.3 → 4.0 (+0.7) ✅
Scenario 3 (reject Android): 3.3 → 4.0 (+0.7) ✅
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* Auto-fallback to parse-only output when atos is unavailable
On Linux (CI), atos and xcrun don't exist. Previously the script would
error out after completing all parsing, losing the results. Now it
detects the missing tool and falls back to ParseOnly output automatically,
ensuring the agent always gets structured parse data regardless of platform.
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* Move apple-crash-symbolication to dotnet-diag plugin
Relocate skill from plugins/dotnet to plugins/dotnet-diag and tests
from tests/dotnet to tests/dotnet-diag. Update CODEOWNERS accordingly.
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* Improve apple-crash-symbolication: macOS symbols, bug fixes, training log
- Fix JSON case-conflict parsing (vmRegionInfo/vmregioninfo duplicate keys)
- Fix strict-mode safe access for optional asi field
- Expand Step 4 with macOS-specific symbol package guidance (.symbols NuGet)
- Add .dwarf to .dSYM conversion instructions
- Add src/coreclr/ to validation paths
- Soften stop signals to allow crash analysis and deeper investigation
- Add macOS Symbol Packages and JSON Parsing Gotchas to reference doc
- Create training log documenting session findings
- Add .github/skills/ project-local copy for CLI testing
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* apple-crash-symbolication: automated version extraction and symbol acquisition
Script improvements:
- Preserve full image paths from crash log (previously discarded by GetFileName)
- Add Get-RuntimeVersionFromPath: extracts .NET version from image paths
(e.g., .../shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/10.0.4/libcoreclr.dylib)
- Add Get-RidFromPath: infers RID from path or crash metadata (OS/CPU)
- Path-based version detection as fast primary method, UUID matching as fallback
- Emit copy-pasteable symbol acquisition commands when dSYMs are missing
- Show .NET version in ParseOnly library listing
SKILL.md updates:
- Step 2: document automated version detection and acquisition commands
- Step 4: script now prints ready-to-run download/conversion commands
Training log: record session 2 findings (5 issues, script + SKILL.md changes)
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* apple-crash-symbolication: add symbol server anti-pattern
dotnet-symbol and msdl.microsoft.com do not serve macOS dSYM/DWARF
symbols — only Windows PDBs and Linux ELF debug info. NuGet packages
are the only public source. Added anti-pattern to SKILL.md (both
copies) and reference doc to prevent wasted tool calls.
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* apple-crash-symbolication: fix symbol server guidance — dotnet-symbol works for macOS
dotnet-symbol --symbols <binary> successfully downloads .dwarf debug
symbols for macOS Mach-O binaries from msdl.microsoft.com. Previous
commit incorrectly claimed this didn't work. Replaced anti-pattern
with positive guidance in SKILL.md (both copies) and reference doc.
Added training log entry documenting the correction.
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* Promote dotnet-symbol as preferred macOS symbol acquisition method
- Script: macOS acquisition block now shows Option A (dotnet-symbol,
preferred) and Option B (.symbols NuGet, fallback). Fixed .dwarf
filename doubling bug in cp command.
- SKILL.md (both copies): Step 2 updated for dotnet-symbol preference,
Step 4 reordered with dotnet-symbol as #2 and NuGet symbols as #3.
- Reference doc: Restructured macOS Symbol Packages section with
Preferred/Fallback subsections and shared .dwarf→.dSYM conversion.
- Training log: Session 4 entry documenting the promotion.
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* Add automated symbol server download for macOS crash symbolication
- Add Get-DebugSymbols function: downloads .dwarf files from Microsoft
symbol server using Mach-O UUID (mirrors android tombstone approach)
- Add Convert-DwarfToDsym function: creates .dSYM bundle from .dwarf
with UUID verification via dwarfdump
- New params: -SymbolCacheDir, -SymbolServerUrl, -SkipSymbolDownload
- Wire download+conversion into main flow after local dSYM search
- Refactor manual acquisition guidance as fallback-only
- Update both SKILL.md copies: frontmatter, Step 4, new flags
- Update ips-crash-format.md: automated download as primary method
- Add training log session 5
URL pattern: https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/_.dwarf/mach-uuid-sym-{UUID}/_.dwarf
Verified end-to-end: 391/391 .NET frames symbolicated with clean cache.
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* apple-crash-symbolication: add triage order guidance to Step 3
Step 3 now instructs the agent to explain the faulting mechanism
(frames #0-#1) before examining cross-thread context. This addresses
a misdiagnosis where GC activity on neighboring threads was mistaken
for causation when the actual root cause (_sigtramp -> NULL signal
handler) was visible in the crashing thread's first two frames.
Training log updated with session retrospective and corrected the
original crash description from GC race to NULL signal handler.
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* Remove stale .github/skills/apple-crash-symbolication remnant
Skill lives in plugins/dotnet-diag/skills/apple-crash-symbolication/ since
the plugin restructuring. The old .github/skills/ copy was a leftover.
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* Add libimobiledevice.org to known-domains.txt
The reference scanner CI check fails because the apple-crash-symbolication
skill references https://libimobiledevice.org/ which is not in the allowed
domains list. This domain hosts the libimobiledevice project, a community
library for communicating with iOS devices.
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* Delete eng/reference-scanner/known-domains.txt
* Apply suggestion from @Copilot
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* Add libimobiledevice.org to known-domains allowlist
The apple-crash-symbolication SKILL.md references libimobiledevice.org
for the idevicecrashreport tool. Add the domain to the known-domains
file to fix the skill-check CI reference validation failure.
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* Restructure apple-crash-symbolication for analysis-first approach
The skill was getting ❌ verdicts on all eval scenarios because it
directed the LLM to 'run the script' instead of teaching crash analysis
domain knowledge. This mirrors the problem where quality decreased from
3.0 to 2.7 in the parse scenario.
Restructure to follow the Android sibling's proven pattern:
- Lead with parsing (.ips two-part JSON format, key fields)
- Teach .NET library identification (inline library table)
- Teach crash interpretation (asi, faulting thread, exception)
- Teach atos command construction (concrete examples)
- Teach dSYM search paths (ordered list with commands)
- Move automation script to optional section at the end
- Move crash log retrieval to a separate section (not Step 1)
Trim the reference doc to avoid duplication, keeping only macOS
symbol distribution differences and supported RID list.
Token budget: ~2,100 tokens (within 800-2,500 optimal range).
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* Refine prompts and assertions in eval.yaml for iOS crash symbolication scenarios
* Add format verification guard and fix overfitting in reject scenario
- SKILL.md: Add explicit format check at start of Step 1 to verify
.ips JSON before proceeding; add 'Wrong file format' stop signal
- eval.yaml: Remove direct skill reference from scenario 3 prompt
to reduce overfitting (was triggering skill activation in plugin mode)
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* Fix scenario 3: provide actual Android tombstone file for rejection test
- eval.yaml: Replace invalid 'extra_files' with correct 'files' syntax
(extra_files was silently ignored, so crash_android.txt was never copied)
- eval.yaml: Remove copy_test_files for scenario 3 to avoid copying
ios_crash.ips which tempts the agent in plugin mode
- Add tombstone_sample.txt to test directory (copy from android sibling)
- SKILL.md: Mention ndk-stack/addr2line in wrong-format stop signal
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* Update tests/dotnet-diag/apple-crash-symbolication/tombstone_sample.txt
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* Update eng/known-domains.txt
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* Address review feedback: simulator RIDs, perf, safety, accuracy fixes
- Add simulator RIDs (iossimulator, tvossimulator) to script search list
- Build hashtable for O(1) image lookups in Get-ThreadFrames
- Remove -UseBasicParsing (unnecessary in pwsh 7+)
- Include UUID in Convert-DwarfToDsym cache path; sanitize library name
- Make version regex greedy to capture pre-release suffixes
- Improve format detection error message for non-.ips files
- Guard xcrun fallback with Get-Command check
- Add .dwarf-to-.dSYM conversion guidance for macOS manual fallback
- Escape .ips in eval.yaml regex assertion
- Fix UUID note in reference doc (normalize, not assume lowercase)
- Fix symbol server example to use crash-log image name
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* Address Copilot review round 2: case-sensitive replace, dedup, path fix, redact PII
- Use -creplace with guard for vmregioninfo duplicate key handling
- Use Sort-Object -Unique for proper library deduplication
- Fix macOS fallback to create .dSYM bundles under symbols-out/
- Redact device identifiers in test fixture .ips file
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* Prevent dSYM cache poisoning: validate UUID on cache hit, remove on mismatch
- Convert-DwarfToDsym now verifies cached dSYM UUID before reusing
- On UUID mismatch during download, remove the bad cached bundle so
subsequent runs can retry cleanly
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* Fix cache validation: normalize UUID comparison, clean up dwarf + bundle on mismatch
- Use Format-Uuid to normalize dwarfdump output before comparing to
already-normalized \ in Convert-DwarfToDsym cache check
- On UUID mismatch after download, remove the entire .dSYM bundle
directory and the cached .dwarf file to prevent repeat failures
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* Fix Resolve-Frames null handling: use List[object] to preserve null entries
PowerShell array += \ silently drops the element, breaking
index alignment between results and input addresses. Switch to
List[object].Add() which correctly preserves null entries.
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* Fix dSYM bundle root traversal, qualify version-from-path note
- Walk up directory tree until *.dSYM is found instead of going up
only 2 levels (which lands at Contents/Resources, not the bundle)
- SKILL.md: note that version-in-path only works on macOS shared
framework installs; iOS paths don't embed the runtime version
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* Remove incorrect .github/skills path reference from training log
The .github/skills/ directory doesn't exist in this repo. The file
was already listed under its actual plugins/dotnet-diag/ path.
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* Detect simulator for RID inference in manual fallback guidance
Detect CoreSimulator in image paths to use iossimulator-/tvossimulator-
RIDs for simulator crashes, avoiding UUID mismatches from wrong runtime
packs. Also handle arm64e CPU type.
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* Fix Resolve-Frames return type and scope issue in simulator detection
- Return \.ToArray() instead of ,\ to avoid wrapping
the list in a single-element array
- Use \.usedImages instead of undefined \ in RID
inference block
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* Clarify ParseOnly .NET Libraries section shows only frame-relevant images
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* Fix YAML escape in assertion pattern (use single quotes for regex backslash)
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* Tighten stop signal to prevent Android symbolication spillover
The apple-crash-symbolication skill's stop signal for wrong file formats
was naming specific Android tools (ndk-stack, addr2line) and the
android-tombstone-symbolication skill. This caused models to learn about
Android symbolication from the Apple skill and then actually execute it,
resulting in 4-5x token bloat and completion regression on the Android
rejection eval scenario.
Remove tool suggestions from the stop signal — just say 'stop, don't
symbolicate.' The Android skill handles its own routing when loaded.
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* Simplify scenario 3 rubric to focus on positive skill knowledge
Replace 4 rubric items (including 2 'Did NOT' items) with 2 items
that test positive knowledge the skill provides. The 'Did NOT' items
gave credit to baseline responses that also don't attempt iOS workflow
(because they don't know about it), minimizing the quality delta.
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* Fix nuget.org domain reference: drop www. prefix to match known-domains.txt
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* Merge upstream main and use api.nuget.org v3 endpoint
Main changed known-domains.txt to use path-scoped entries
(nuget.org/account/trustedpublishing instead of bare nuget.org).
Switch the symbols download URL to the v3 flatcontainer endpoint
on api.nuget.org which is in the allowlist.
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* Fix .gitignore merge conflict
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* Deduplicate test skill references and clarify skill boundaries
- Move platform-detection.md and filter-syntax.md to plugins/dotnet-test/shared/,
removing 3 identical copies of each from run-tests, mtp-hot-reload, and
migrate-vstest-to-mtp reference directories.
- Move dotnet.md from exp-test-smell-detection/extensions/ to shared/ as
dotnet-test-frameworks.md in both dotnet-test and dotnet-experimental plugins.
Update exp-assertion-quality, exp-test-boilerplate-detection, exp-test-tagging,
and test-anti-patterns to reference the shared file instead of inlining
framework detection tables.
- Differentiate test-anti-patterns (quick pragmatic review) from
exp-test-smell-detection (deep formal audit with academic taxonomy) by updating
descriptions and cross-referencing each other in When Not to Use sections.
- Update skill-validator to allow ../../shared/ file references while still
blocking other parent-directory traversals. Add tests for the new rule.
* Switch from shared/ directories to hidden reference skills
Replace the plugin-level shared/ directories with non-invocable reference
skills (user-invocable: false) that other skills reference by name.
- Create platform-detection, filter-syntax, and dotnet-test-frameworks as
hidden skills under plugins/dotnet-test/skills/. These contain the
detection tables and syntax references previously duplicated across
run-tests, mtp-hot-reload, and migrate-vstest-to-mtp.
- Create exp-dotnet-test-frameworks as a hidden skill under
plugins/dotnet-experimental/skills/ for the experimental test analysis
skills (exp-test-smell-detection, exp-assertion-quality, etc.).
- Update all consuming skills to reference these by skill name in backtick
notation instead of file links.
- Revert the skill-validator ../../shared/ exception — no longer needed
since all references now use the standard skill name mechanism.
* Merge exp-test-boilerplate-detection into exp-test-maintainability
exp-test-maintainability was only 6 calibration rules with no workflow.
exp-test-boilerplate-detection had the full 5-category detection workflow,
examples, calibration, and validation. Merge the boilerplate content into
exp-test-maintainability (the broader, more user-facing name) and add the
two unique maintainability rules (DisplayName guidance, DataRow vs
DynamicData preference) to Category 3.
- Replace exp-test-maintainability SKILL.md with the merged content
- Move test fixtures from exp-test-boilerplate-detection to exp-test-maintainability
- Merge eval.yaml scenarios (4 total: 2 from each original skill)
- Delete exp-test-boilerplate-detection skill and tests
- Update all cross-references in exp-test-smell-detection, dotnet-test-frameworks,
exp-dotnet-test-frameworks, and CODEOWNERS
* Add cross-references to test-anti-patterns for deep mock and duplication analysis
Point users to exp-mock-usage-analysis from the Over-mocking entry and
to exp-test-maintainability from the Duplicate tests entry.
* Add exp-dotnet-test-frameworks to CODEOWNERS
* Improve run-tests SDK 10 MTP detection for blame-hang scenario
Inline the critical SDK 10 detection signal (global.json test.runner)
directly in Step 1 instead of deferring entirely to the platform-detection
skill. This makes the distinction between SDK 10 (no -- separator) and
SDK 8/9 (requires -- separator) more prominent.
Add a quick detection summary table, strengthen the Common Pitfalls entry
for SDK 10 with a blame-hang-timeout example, and keep the
platform-detection skill reference for the full detection logic.
* Improve skill activation keywords in descriptions
- exp-test-maintainability: Add 'suggest a better test structure',
'consolidate similar test methods', 'convert copy-paste tests to
data-driven parameterized tests' to match prompts like 'each new case
needs a whole new method, suggest a better structure'.
- test-anti-patterns: Add 'review tests', 'find test problems', 'check
test quality', 'audit tests for common mistakes' to match review-style
prompts that don't use the word 'anti-pattern'.
- run-tests: Add 'hang timeout', 'blame-hang', 'blame-crash', 'TUnit'
to match SDK 10 blame scenarios and TUnit filter scenarios that were
intermittently not activating.
* Copy PATs rotation from dotnet/core
* Recompile agentic workflows with gh-aw v0.67.1
Remove unsupported 'failure' safe-output (dropped in gh-aw v0.67.1).
Regenerate lock files with the new compiler version.
No functional changes.
* Add Copilot PAT pool rotation to agentic workflows
Use the select-copilot-pat action to randomly select from a pool of
COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN / COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN_2..8 secrets, distributing
Copilot API load across multiple PATs.
This is a stop-gap until organization-level billing is available for
Agentic Workflows. See .github/actions/select-copilot-pat/README.md.
* Add 7 core .NET MAUI development skills to dotnet-maui plugin
Add maui-shell-navigation, maui-collectionview, maui-data-binding,
maui-dependency-injection, maui-app-lifecycle, maui-safe-area, and
maui-theming skills with eval.yaml tests and reference docs.
Update plugin.json, marketplace.json (both copies), and CODEOWNERS.
Resolves#455
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* Fix cross-skill references to non-existent skills
Replace 10 dangling references to skills not in this repo
(maui-deep-linking, maui-platform-invoke, maui-unit-testing,
maui-maps, maui-animations, maui-accessibility, maui-app-icons-splash,
maui-bootstrap-theme, maui-localization) with plain-English guidance
or references to skills that exist in this PR.
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* Fix code correctness bugs and remaining cross-references
Address PR review feedback and skeptic review findings:
Code correctness:
- Fix BackgroundColor="Primary" (XAML crash) → use {StaticResource Primary}
- Fix MergedDictionaries.Clear() (nukes all styles) → remove-then-add pattern
- Fix HorizontalStackLayout Fill (no effect) → use Grid with ColumnDefinitions
- Fix AncestorType with ViewModel type → use ContentPage (visual element)
- Fix Frame usage → replace with Border (recommended control)
- Remove redundant MultiBinding StringFormat="{}{0}"
- Fix OnStart reference → use CreateWindow for theme restore
- Soften lifecycle OnStart/OnSleep characterization (compat shims, not absent)
- Qualify ResourceDictionary code-behind requirement (only for x:Class)
Cross-references:
- Remove all remaining body-text refs to non-existent skills
- Replace with Microsoft Learn doc links or generic guidance
Eval:
- Relax SafeAreaRegions assertion to accept SafeAreaEdges or SafeAreaRegions
- Relax theming rubric for ResourceDictionary code-behind
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* Restore Clear() theme pattern with clarifying comment
The Clear()+Add() pattern is intentional — theme dictionaries are designed
to be the only merged dictionaries in this architecture. Added comment
explaining the assumption and what to do if non-theme dictionaries exist.
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* Fix second-pass review findings: API accuracy and eval robustness
Code correctness:
- ScrollView SafeAreaEdges="All" → "Container" (ScrollView only honors
Container and None; All silently fails for keyboard avoidance)
- DI CreateWindow example: add comment noting AppShell must be registered
- AddHttpClient: add comment noting Microsoft.Extensions.Http NuGet required
- MultiBinding: remove redundant StringFormat from reference doc (matches SKILL.md)
- RelativeSource Self table: Path=Width → Path=WidthRequest (Width is
read-only -1 before layout; WidthRequest is the correct bindable property)
- CollectionView StackLayout warning: clarify it refers to BindableLayout
on StackLayout vs CollectionView ItemsLayout types
- SafeAreaEdges: fix "attached property" → "property" (it's a regular property)
- ios:NavigationPage example: add xmlns comment for ios namespace
Eval assertions:
- DI Scoped regex: accept "doesn't"/"lacks"/"without" not just "no"
- CollectionView ViewCell: match negation in either direction around ViewCell
- Lifecycle events: require 3+ distinct events instead of any single one
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* Fix final PR review comments
- safe-area eval: tighten Container assertion to require SafeAreaEdges context
- DI: merge #else fallback into single compilable #if block
- lifecycle: behaviour → behavior (American English consistency)
- theming: macOS Catalyst minimum 10.14 → 10.15 (Catalina required)
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* Add exp-mock-usage-analysis skill and evaluation
New experimental skill that detects unused, redundant, or unnecessary
mocks in .NET test suites. Covers Moq, NSubstitute, FakeItEasy, and
manual test doubles.
- SKILL.md with 6-step workflow: gather code, classify mocks, detect
anti-patterns, incorporate runtime data, generate recommendations,
report findings
- eval.yaml with 10 scenarios: trivial type mocking, unused setups,
redundant configs, stable utility mocks, well-placed mocks (no false
positives), NSubstitute support, FakeItEasy support, setup sprawl,
and 2 non-activation boundary tests
- Fixture files for each scenario with production + test code
- CODEOWNERS entry for @dotnet/dotnet-testing
* Remove no-headroom scenarios, increase NSubstitute timeout
Remove 4 scenarios where baseline already scores 5.0/5 (model handles
these well without skill guidance):
- Detect mocking of DTOs, records, and enums
- Recognize well-placed mocks without inventing false positives
- Decline when asked about non-mock test anti-patterns
- Decline mock framework migration request
Increase NSubstitute scenario timeout from 120s to 180s to avoid
baseline timeouts impacting scoring.
Remaining 6 scenarios all show positive skill impact (3→5, 3→4, etc).
* Document areas the model handles well without the skill
Add a subsection under 'When Not to Use' listing mock-related tasks
where the base model already scores 5.0/5 without skill guidance:
- Mocking trivial types (DTOs, records, enums)
- Recognizing well-placed mocks (no false positives)
* Fix md
* Improve
* Add exp-test-smell-detection skill and evaluation
- Language-agnostic core skill detecting 10 test smells (conditional logic,
mystery guest, sleepy test, assertion-free, eager test, magic numbers,
sensitive equality, exception handling, general fixture, ignored tests)
- .NET extension with framework-specific detection tables (MSTest/xUnit/NUnit/TUnit)
- Reference catalog with 19 smells from testsmells.org research
- Evaluation with 4 scenarios: smelly suite, clean suite, integration tests, non-activation
- CODEOWNERS entry for @dotnet/dotnet-testing
* Improve integration test fixture and non-activation timeout
- Add real smells to integration test fixture (Thread.Sleep, conditional
logic, assertion-free test) mixed with legitimate integration patterns
- Update rubric to test nuanced distinction between real smells and
acceptable integration test patterns
- Increase non-activation scenario timeout from 120s to 300s to prevent
timeout-related scoring penalties
* Fix test projects
* Add domains for testsmells
* Remove extra domains
New experimental skill that performs pseudo-mutation analysis on .NET
production code to find gaps in existing test suites. Covers boundary,
boolean/logic, return value, exception removal, arithmetic, and
null-check mutation categories.
Includes eval.yaml with 4 scenarios (boundary gaps, logic gaps,
well-tested code recognition, non-activation) and fixture projects.
* Make the infra eval gate faster
* Address PR feedback: handle infra+skill overlap, detect evaluation.yml changes
- When both infra and skill changes exist in a PR, evaluate the changed
skills normally instead of the random subset (fixes Copilot review).
- Expand infra detection to include .github/workflows/evaluation.yml
changes in all three detection sites (pr-status, fork-pr-status, discover).
The pinned actions/cache SHA (5a3ec84, v4) does not expose the
cache-primary-key output. This caused the evaluate job to fail with
'Input required and not supplied: key' because the build-validator
job output was always empty.
Fix: compute the cache key in a dedicated step and pass it as a job
output, instead of relying on an output that doesn't exist at this
action version.
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* Skill-validator: perf, cancellation, and reliability improvements
Performance:
- Cache skill-validator-dist.tar.gz in CI (evaluation.yml and skill-check.yml)
to skip .NET SDK setup, build, and tar on cache hit. Evaluate and comment-on-pr
jobs restore from cache with artifact download fallback.
- Replace SemaphoreSlim with Lock in SessionDatabase for lighter-weight
synchronous locking.
Cancellation:
- Thread CancellationToken from System.CommandLine entry point through the
entire evaluate call chain: Run -> EvaluateTarget -> EvaluateSkill/EvaluateAgent
-> ExecuteScenario/ExecuteAgentScenario -> ExecuteRun/ExecuteAgentRun, plus
EvaluateSkillNoise -> ExecuteNoiseTest.
- Add CancellationToken parameter to AgentRunner.RunAgent, Judge.JudgeRun,
PairwiseJudge.Judge, and OverfittingJudge.Analyze, forwarding to
RetryHelper and LlmSession.SendAsync respectively.
- Pass CancellationToken to all ConcurrencyLimiter.RunAsync call sites so
semaphore waits are cancellable.
- Re-throw OperationCanceledException at the top-level skill evaluation loop
so Ctrl+C / CI cancellation propagates instead of being swallowed as a
skill failure.
Reliability:
- Smart timeline truncation in Judge and PairwiseJudge: error events
(session.error, runner.error) are always preserved during truncation
regardless of position, with a summary marker showing event type breakdown.
- Add jitter (±25%) to RetryHelper exponential backoff to prevent thundering
herd on rate-limit recovery.
- Add CancellationToken parameter to ConcurrencyLimiter.RunAsync<T>.
- Add ConcurrencyLimiter tests (6 tests) and RetryHelper jitter tests (2 tests).
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* Address PR review feedback
- RetryHelper: re-clamp delay after jitter so it never exceeds the
remaining budget or MaxSingleDelayMs.
- Judge/PairwiseJudge: handle edge case where error count alone exceeds
MaxTimelineEvents by trimming errors with a summary instead of
unconditionally appending all of them.
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* Add high-variance detection and refactor FailureKind to enum
- Add Statistics.CoefficientOfVariation() for measuring score consistency
- Flag scenarios with CV > 0.5 as high-variance in ScenarioComparison
- Show console warning and markdown footnote for high-variance scenarios
- Include high-variance scenario names in Comparator verdict reason
- Refactor FailureKind from magic strings to strongly-typed enum with
JsonStringEnumMemberName attributes for backwards-compatible JSON output
- Add 6 new CV unit tests
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* Move skill-validator docs under src/ and include in packages
Move README.md to src/ and InvestigatingResults.md + OverfittingDetection.md
to src/docs/ so they ship in the NuGet package and .tar.gz archives.
- Include docs/*.md in NuGet pack and publish output via CopyToPublishDirectory
- Add LICENSE to publish output (tar.gz only, not NuGet — uses PackageLicenseExpression)
- Replace enumerated docOnlyFiles lists with a regex pattern in CI workflows
- Deduplicate eval.yaml docs between CONTRIBUTING.md and the shipping README
- Add test fixture files walkthrough to README (moved from CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Add AGENTS.md guidance: src/ is the packaging boundary
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* Update link format in failure diagnosis message
* Update AGENTS.md
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Two new experimental skills for dotnet-experimental plugin:
- exp-test-boilerplate-detection: Detects duplicate boilerplate patterns
across .NET test suites and identifies refactoring opportunities.
Categories: repeated construction, assertion patterns, copy-paste
methods, duplicated setup/teardown, repeated infrastructure.
- exp-assertion-quality: Analyzes assertion variety and depth across
.NET test suites. Produces metrics dashboard including assertion
count, type spread, trivial %, assertion-free tests, and negative
assertion coverage.
Both skills include eval.yaml with 3-4 scenarios each (positive,
negative, and non-activation) plus test fixtures.
* Initial plan
* Fix Action summary to show all columns and remove redundant Full results link
The comment-on-pr job was using the simplified PR comment table
(consolidated-comment.md) for the Action step summary. This change:
1. Writes the full summary-body.md (with all columns including
Quality (Plugin) and Agents Invoked) to GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY.
2. Removes the "Full results" link from the Action summary since
it links to the same page.
3. Keeps the investigation prompt in both PR comment and Action summary.
Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/dotnet/skills/sessions/870c41f2-0e41-4e62-9a43-d1f7128bab06
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New experimental skill that assesses test maintainability: duplication,
test size, data-driven patterns, display names, builder/helper extraction,
and shared setup.
Aditya Mandaleeka