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copy-to-output-directory

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By managedcode/dotnet-skills (GitHub) · coding · 514 stars · scanned at commit b461d18

Choosing an MSBuild CopyToOutputDirectory / CopyToPublishDirectory mode: Never, PreserveNewest, Always, and IfDifferent (MSBuild 17.13+), plus $(SkipUnchangedFilesOnCopyAlways). USE FOR: removing the per-build Always copy perf hit; resetting output files mutated between builds. DO NOT USE FOR: general incremental-build diagnosis (use incremental-build); non-MSBuild build systems.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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• catalog/Tools/Official-DotNet-MSBuild/skills/copy-to-output-directory 100/100 · Low risk

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'copy-to-output-directory' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'copy-to-output-directory' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named copy-to-output-directory already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/managedcode/dotnet-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b461d186f21dcab31bc4b1cf48f7cced8ac61780' -- 'external-sources/upstreams/dotnet-skills/plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/copy-to-output-directory' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'external-sources/upstreams/dotnet-skills/plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/copy-to-output-directory' ~/.agents/skills/'copy-to-output-directory' && 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/'copy-to-output-directory' ~/.claude/skills/'copy-to-output-directory' (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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