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msbuild-server

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 microsoft/testfx (GitHub) · coding · 1,059 stars · scanned at commit 8dd78e1

Guide for using MSBuild Server to improve CLI build performance. Activate when developers report slow incremental builds from the command line, or when CLI builds are noticeably slower than IDE builds. Covers MSBUILDUSESERVER=1 environment variable for persistent server-based caching. Do not activate for IDE-based builds (Visual Studio already uses a long-lived process).

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/'msbuild-server' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-server' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named msbuild-server already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/microsoft/testfx' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8dd78e1347417e400c3ef8d786059a8bb346162f' -- '.agents/skills/msbuild-server' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/msbuild-server' ~/.agents/skills/'msbuild-server' && 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-server' ~/.claude/skills/'msbuild-server' (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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Identical copies of this skill exist at:

• stanfish06/skillquarium/skills/msbuild-server