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msbuild

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

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

Use before MSBuild custom-target or incremental-generation repairs, XML/import/hook review, .binlog capture/replay, or assessing supported/unsupported build-speedup claims and controlled timings, even without a checkout. For MSBuild authoring itself, activate before reviewing/editing .proj/.props/.targets/.csproj/.fsproj/.vbproj or Directory.Build files, including no-change import reviews. Framework/API/.NET/ASP.NET upgrade plans and working non-SDK-to-SDK/packages.config conversions are migrat…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named msbuild 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '96c3d68dad2855e3ab5178aa1a262789d86a1466' -- 'plugins/dotnet/skills/msbuild' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/dotnet/skills/msbuild' ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild' && 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/'msbuild' ~/.claude/skills/'msbuild' (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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