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* Add dotnet-blazor plugin and convert-blazor-server-to-webapp skill

Add the dotnet-blazor plugin with 9 skills covering Blazor Web App development:
- plan-ui-change: Plan and scaffold UI features in Blazor Web Apps
- create-blazor-project: Create new Blazor projects with proper render mode setup
- author-component: Author Razor components with parameters, events, lifecycle
- coordinate-components: Share state across components using CascadingValueSource/scoped services
- use-js-interop: Call JavaScript from Blazor and vice versa
- fetch-and-send-data: HTTP data access with proper service patterns
- configure-auth: Set up ASP.NET Core Identity and authorization in Blazor
- collect-user-input: Build forms with EditForm, validation, and file uploads
- support-prerendering: Handle prerendering lifecycle and state persistence

Add convert-blazor-server-to-webapp skill to the dotnet-aspnet plugin for
migrating .NET 7 Blazor Server apps to .NET 8+ Blazor Web App architecture.

All 10 skills pass evaluation with quality improvements ranging from 12-50%
and overfitting scores within acceptable thresholds.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Update eng/allowed-external-deps.txt

* Update .gitignore

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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.NET Agent Skills

Dashboard

This repository contains the .NET team's curated set of core skills and custom agents for coding agents. For information about the Agent Skills standard, see agentskills.io.

📊 Dashboard - Accuracy and efficiency scoring trends for contained plugins (https://dotnet.github.io/skills/)

What's Included

Plugin Description
dotnet Collection of core .NET skills for handling common .NET coding tasks.
dotnet-data Skills for .NET data access and Entity Framework related tasks.
dotnet-diag Skills for .NET performance investigations, debugging, and incident analysis.
dotnet-msbuild Comprehensive MSBuild and .NET build skills: failure diagnosis, performance optimization, code quality, and modernization.
dotnet-nuget NuGet and .NET package management: dependency management and modernization.
dotnet-upgrade Skills for migrating and upgrading .NET projects across framework versions, language features, and compatibility targets.
dotnet-maui Skills for .NET MAUI development: environment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.
dotnet-ai AI and ML skills for .NET: technology selection, LLM integration, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP, and classic ML with ML.NET.
dotnet-template-engine .NET Template Engine skills: template discovery, project scaffolding, and template authoring.
dotnet-test Skills for running, diagnosing, and migrating .NET tests: test execution, filtering, platform detection, and MSTest workflows.
dotnet-aspnet ASP.NET Core web development skills including middleware, endpoints, real-time communication, and API patterns.
dotnet-blazor Skills for Blazor development: component authoring, interactivity, and web application patterns.
dotnet11 Skills for new .NET 11 APIs and language features.

Installation

🚀 Plugins - Copilot CLI / Claude Code

  1. Launch Copilot CLI or Claude Code
  2. Add the marketplace:
    /plugin marketplace add dotnet/skills
    
  3. Install a plugin:
    /plugin install <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills
    
  4. Restart to load the new plugins
  5. View available skills:
    /skills
    
  6. View available agents:
    /agents
    
  7. Update plugin (on demand):
    /plugin update <plugin>@dotnet-agent-skills
    

VS Code / VS Code Insiders (Preview)

Important

VS Code plugin support is a preview feature and subject to change. You may need to enable it first.

// settings.json
{
  "chat.plugins.enabled": true,
  "chat.plugins.marketplaces": ["dotnet/skills"]
}

Once configured, type /plugins in Copilot Chat or use the @agentPlugins filter in Extensions to browse and install plugins from the marketplace.

Cursor

This repository is a Cursor plugin marketplace. You can discover and install published plugins directly in Cursor:

  1. Open the marketplace panel in Cursor
  2. Search for .NET or browse cursor.com/marketplace
  3. Install the desired plugins

For local development or unpublished changes, import plugins from a local checkout:

  1. Copy or symlink your local checkout to ~/.cursor/plugins/local/dotnet-agent-skills
  2. Restart Cursor or run Developer: Reload Window

Codex CLI

Skills in this repository follow the agentskills.io open standard and are compatible with OpenAI Codex.

Install individual skills using the skill-installer CLI with the GitHub URL:

$ skill-installer install https://github.com/dotnet/skills/tree/main/plugins/<plugin>/skills/<skill-name>

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines and how to add a new plugin.

License

See LICENSE for details.