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target-authoring

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

Canonical patterns for writing custom MSBuild targets. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing custom target authoring anti-patterns; broken SDK target chains across files (e.g., Directory.Build.targets silently redefining SDK targets); targets that replace CompileDependsOn instead of extending it with $(CompileDependsOn); query targets returning stale results from Outputs vs Returns misuse; missing Inputs/Outputs causing unnecessary rebuilds; missing FileWrites registration. Covers DependsOnTargets vs …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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