Xtwitter Scraper
Use XTwitterScraper when a .NET application needs typed access to Xquik's X automation REST API for tweet search, user lookup, posting workflows, extraction jobs, monitors, webhooks, or giveaway draws. USE FOR: integrating the XTwitterScraper NuGet package; reviewing Xquik API client usage; modeling API-key configuration, pagination, binary exports, raw responses, retries, and webhook/event flows…
Managedcode Orleans Signalr
Use ManagedCode.Orleans.SignalR when a distributed .NET application needs Orleans-based coordination of SignalR real-time messaging, hub delivery, and grain-driven push flows. USE FOR: integrating ManagedCode.Orleans.SignalR into a real-time distributed application; coordinating SignalR delivery from Orleans grains; reviewing grain-to-hub push flows. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic task…
Winforms
Build, maintain, or modernize Windows Forms applications with practical guidance on designer-driven UI, event handling, data binding, MVP separation, and migration to modern .NET. USE FOR: working on Windows Forms UI, event-driven workflows, or classic LOB applications; migrating WinForms from .NET Framework to modern .NET; cleaning up oversized form code. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generi…
Managedcode Mimetypes
Use ManagedCode.MimeTypes when a .NET application needs consistent MIME type detection, extension mapping, and content-type decisions for uploads, downloads, or HTTP responses. USE FOR: integrating ManagedCode.MimeTypes into upload or download flows; mapping file extensions to content types in APIs or background processing; reviewing content-type. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks t…
Managedcode Orleans Graph
Integrate ManagedCode.Orleans.Graph into an Orleans-based .NET application for grain-call policy enforcement, deadlock detection, live-call telemetry, and Mermaid graph diagnostics. USE FOR: ManagedCode.Orleans.Graph integration; allowed grain transitions; Orleans call filters; live policy graphs; reviewing Orleans call-cycle risk. DO NOT USE FOR: generic graph data modeling or traversal unrelate…
Microsoft Agent Framework
Build .NET AI agents and multi-agent workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework using the right agent type, threads, tools, workflows, hosting protocols, and enterprise guardrails. USE FOR: building or reviewing .NET code that uses Microsoft.Agents.*, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, AIAgent, AgentThread, AgentSession, or Agent Framework hosting packages; choosing. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic…
Maui
Build, review, or migrate .NET MAUI applications across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows with correct cross-platform UI, platform integration, and native packaging assumptions. USE FOR: working on cross-platform mobile or desktop UI in .NET MAUI; integrating device capabilities, navigation, or platform-specific code; migrating Xamarin.Forms or aligning. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic t…
Minimal Apis
Design and implement Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core using handler-first endpoints, route groups, filters, and lightweight composition suited to modern .NET services. USE FOR: building new HTTP APIs in ASP.NET Core; creating lightweight microservices; choosing between Minimal APIs and controllers. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. INVOKES: inspe…
Managedcode Storage
Use ManagedCode.Storage when a .NET application needs a provider-agnostic storage abstraction with explicit configuration, container selection, upload and download flows, and backend-specific integration kept. USE FOR: integrating ManagedCode.Storage into a .NET application; reviewing how a project abstracts file or object storage; deciding whether to centralize storage provider. DO NOT USE FOR:…
Signalr
Implement or review SignalR hubs, streaming, reconnection, transport, and real-time delivery patterns in ASP.NET Core applications. USE FOR: building chat, notification, collaboration, or live-update features; debugging hub lifetime, connection state, or transport issues; deciding whether SignalR or another. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance.…
Worker Services
Build long-running .NET background services with `BackgroundService`, Generic Host, graceful shutdown, configuration, logging, and deployment patterns suited to workers and daemons. USE FOR: background services; scheduled workers; hosted services; worker extraction; graceful shutdown, health checks, and service hosting review. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this…
Grpc
Build or review gRPC services and clients in .NET. USE FOR: ASP.NET Core gRPC, protobuf contracts, unary or streaming RPC, gRPC client factory, interceptors, deadlines, cancellation, channel reuse, backend service integration. DO NOT USE FOR: broad browser-facing APIs without gRPC-Web tradeoff review, SignalR realtime hubs, plain REST APIs. INVOKES: dotnet build/test and focused service or client…
Libvlc
Expert knowledge of the libvlc C API (3.x and 4.x), the multimedia framework behind VLC media player. Use when helping with LibVLC or LibVLCSharp for media playback, streaming, or transcoding. USE FOR: LibVLC Skill implementation, review, migration, debugging, or documentation work. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. INVOKES: inspect the repos…
Winui
Build or review WinUI 3 applications with the Windows App SDK, including MVVM patterns, packaging decisions, navigation, theming, windowing, and interop boundaries with other .NET stacks. USE FOR: building native modern Windows desktop UI on WinUI 3; integrating Windows App SDK features into a .NET app; deciding between WinUI, WPF, WinForms, and MAUI for Windows. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks;…
Managedcode Communication
Use ManagedCode.Communication when a .NET application needs explicit result objects, structured errors, and predictable service or API boundaries instead of exception-driven control flow. USE FOR: integrating ManagedCode.Communication into services or APIs; replacing exception-driven result handling with explicit results; reviewing service boundaries that return. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks;…
Wpf
Build and modernize WPF applications on .NET with correct XAML, data binding, commands, threading, styling, and Windows desktop migration decisions. USE FOR: working on WPF UI, MVVM, binding, commands, or desktop modernization; migrating WPF from .NET Framework to .NET; integrating newer Windows capabilities into a WPF app. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this spe…
Netarchtest
Use the open-source free `NetArchTest.Rules` library for architecture rules in .NET unit tests. Use when a repo wants lightweight, fluent architecture assertions for namespaces, dependencies, or layering. USE FOR: the repo uses or wants NetArchTest.Rules; architecture rules should be enforced in automated tests. DO NOT USE FOR: very rich architecture modeling that needs a heavier DSL. INVOKES: in…
Workflow Foundation
Maintain or assess Workflow Foundation-based solutions on .NET Framework, especially where long-lived process logic or legacy designer artifacts still matter. USE FOR: WF activities and workflows; designer-backed process logic; long-lived workflow state and persistence; keep, isolate, or replace decisions. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. IN…
Orleans
Build or review distributed .NET applications with Orleans grains, silos, persistence, streaming, reminders, placement, transactions, serialization, event sourcing, testing, and cloud-native hosting. USE FOR: Orleans grains, silos, clients, persistence, streams, reminders, placement, serialization, testing, and Aspire hosting. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic distributed-system advice wi…
Mlnet
Use ML.NET to train, evaluate, or integrate machine-learning models into .NET applications with realistic data preparation, inference, and deployment expectations. USE FOR: ML.NET integration; local model training or retraining; inference pipelines, model loading, evaluation, and deployment review. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. INVOKES: i…
Aspnet Core
Build, debug, modernize, or review ASP.NET Core applications with correct hosting, middleware, security, configuration, logging, and deployment patterns on current .NET. USE FOR: working on ASP.NET Core apps, services, or middleware; changing auth, routing, configuration, hosting, or deployment behavior; deciding between ASP.NET Core sub-stacks. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks tha…
Entity Framework6
Maintain or migrate EF6-based applications with realistic guidance on what to keep, what to modernize, and when EF Core is or is not the right next step. USE FOR: EF6 codebases; runtime versus ORM migration decisions; EDMX, code-first, ObjectContext, and legacy data-access review. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. INVOKES: inspect the reposit…
Azure Functions
Build, review, or migrate Azure Functions in .NET with correct execution model, isolated worker setup, bindings, DI, and Durable Functions patterns. USE FOR: working on Azure Functions in .NET; migrating from the in-process model to the isolated worker model; adding Durable Functions, bindings, or host configuration. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific g…
Managedcode Markitdown
Use ManagedCode.MarkItDown when a .NET application needs deterministic document-to-Markdown conversion for ingestion, indexing, summarization, or content-processing workflows. USE FOR: ManagedCode.MarkItDown integration; document ingestion flows; Office or rich-text conversion to Markdown; indexing and summarization pipelines. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this…
Microsoft Extensions Ai
Build provider-agnostic .NET AI integrations with `Microsoft.Extensions.AI`, `IChatClient`, embeddings, middleware, structured output, vector search, and evaluation. USE FOR: building or reviewing .NET code that uses Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions, IChatClient, IEmbeddingGenerator, ChatOptions, or AIFunction;. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do…
Aspire
Build, upgrade, and operate .NET Aspire 13.4.x application hosts with current CLI, AppHost, ServiceDefaults, integrations, dashboard, testing, MCP, and Azure deployment patterns for distributed apps. USE FOR: Aspire.AppHost.Sdk, Aspire.Hosting.*, DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder, WithReference, WaitFor, AddProject, AddRedis, AddPostgres, aspire run, aspire init, aspire. DO NOT USE FOR: unrela…
Blazor
Build and review Blazor applications across server, WebAssembly, web app, and hybrid scenarios with correct component design, state flow, rendering, and hosting choices. USE FOR: building interactive web UIs with C# instead of JavaScript; choosing between Server, WebAssembly, or Auto render modes; designing component hierarchies and state. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do n…
Mvvm
Implement the Model-View-ViewModel pattern in .NET applications with proper separation of concerns, data binding, commands, and testable ViewModels using MVVM Toolkit. USE FOR: implementing UI separation with Model-View-ViewModel; using MVVM Toolkit (CommunityToolkit.Mvvm) for ViewModels; designing testable UI architecture. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this spe…
Web Api
Build or maintain controller-based ASP.NET Core APIs when the project needs controller conventions, advanced model binding, validation extensions, OData, JsonPatch, or existing API patterns. USE FOR: working on controller-based APIs in ASP.NET Core; needing controller-specific extensibility or conventions; migrating or reviewing existing API controllers and filters. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stac…
Uno Platform
Build cross-platform .NET applications with Uno Platform targeting WebAssembly, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows from a single XAML/C# codebase. USE FOR: building cross-platform apps from a single C# and XAML codebase; targeting WebAssembly, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows simultaneously; migrating WPF or UWP. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this sp…
Microsoft Extensions
Use the Microsoft.Extensions stack correctly across Generic Host, dependency injection, configuration, logging, options, HttpClientFactory, and other shared infrastructure patterns. USE FOR: wiring dependency injection, configuration, logging, or options; introducing Generic Host patterns into non-web .NET apps; cleaning up service registration, typed HTTP. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; gener…
Mcp
Build or consume Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients in .NET using the official MCP C# SDK, including stdio, Streamable HTTP, tools, prompts, resources, and capability negotiation. USE FOR: .NET MCP servers or clients; stdio versus HTTP transport choices; tools, resources, prompts, completions, and capability negotiation. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not ne…
Entity Framework Core
Design, tune, or review EF Core data access with proper modeling, migrations, query translation, performance, and lifetime management for modern .NET applications. USE FOR: DbContext, migrations, model configuration, EF queries, tracking, loading, performance, transactions, and EF6 migration decisions. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. INVOKE…
Sep
Use Sep for high-performance separated-value parsing and writing in .NET, including delimiter inference, explicit parser/writer options, and low-allocation row/column workflows. USE FOR: delimited data needs are performance-sensitive and allocation-aware; project needs explicit control over separator inference, escaping, trimming, and header behavior;. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic ta…
Wcf
Work on WCF services, clients, bindings, contracts, and migration decisions for SOAP and multi-transport service-oriented systems on .NET Framework or compatible stacks. USE FOR: working on WCF services, bindings, or clients; deciding whether a service should stay WCF or move to modern HTTP APIs; reviewing transport, security, or interoperability. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks t…
Archunitnet
Use the open-source free `ArchUnitNET` library for architecture rules in .NET tests. Use when a repo needs richer architecture assertions than lightweight fluent rule libraries usually provide. USE FOR: the repo uses or wants ArchUnitNET; architecture testing needs richer modeling than simple dependency checks. DO NOT USE FOR: the lightest possible architecture rule checks. INVOKES: inspect the r…
MCPGateway
Searchable MCP and AITool gateway for .NET, built on Microsoft.Extensions.AI with embedding-based tool discovery, lexical fallback, and unified execution
Semantic Kernel
Build AI-enabled .NET applications with Semantic Kernel using services, plugins, prompts, and function-calling patterns that remain testable and maintainable. USE FOR: adding AI-driven prompts, plugins, or orchestration to a .NET app; reviewing kernel construction, service registration, or plugin usage; building function-calling. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need th…