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msbuild-antipatterns

97 / 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

DO NOT INVOKE when the primary request explicitly asks to convert, migrate, modernize, or rewrite a legacy/old-style project to SDK style; use msbuild-modernization. Migration prompts often mention ToolsVersion, explicit Compile/Reference entries, packages.config, or Microsoft.CSharp.targets, but merely reviewing or auditing a file that contains those patterns remains in scope here. USE FOR broad review, audit, lint, or maintainability/correctness checks of project/build files, including custom…

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• catalog/Tools/Official-DotNet-MSBuild/skills/msbuild-antipatterns 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/'msbuild-antipatterns' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-antipatterns' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named msbuild-antipatterns 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 "$d" checkout --quiet 'b461d186f21dcab31bc4b1cf48f7cced8ac61780' -- 'external-sources/upstreams/dotnet-skills/plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/msbuild-antipatterns' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'external-sources/upstreams/dotnet-skills/plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/msbuild-antipatterns' ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-antipatterns' && 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-antipatterns' ~/.claude/skills/'msbuild-antipatterns' (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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