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incremental-build

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By dotnet/skills (GitHub) · other · 5,870 stars · scanned at commit 96c3d68

Fix MSBuild incremental/no-op builds: 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway'. USE FOR: targets re-executing on subsequent builds, missing Inputs/Outputs or FileWrites, volatile output paths, untracked writes, glob changes, Visual Studio Fast Up-to-Date Check (FUTDC); 'Building target completely' vs 'Skipping target' in binlog. DO NOT USE FOR: within-build duplicates (find-repeated-work-within-one-build), first-build slowness (build-perf-baseline), parallelism (build-parallelism), slow evaluat…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'incremental-build' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'incremental-build' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named incremental-build already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/dotnet/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '96c3d68dad2855e3ab5178aa1a262789d86a1466' -- 'plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/incremental-build' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/incremental-build' ~/.agents/skills/'incremental-build' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'incremental-build' ~/.claude/skills/'incremental-build' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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