template-discovery SKILL.md skillA
template-discovery from dotnet/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dotnet/skills/template-discovery@git:20260831.a7a6170Pins git:20260831.a7a6170 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dotnet/skills
- Path
plugins/dotnet-template-engine/skills/template-discovery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260831.a7a6170, committed Aug 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 21, 2026
- Size
- 12,262 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,836
- License
- MIT
Helps find, inspect, and compare (at a high level) .NET project templates. Resolves natural-language project descriptions to ranked template matches with pre-filled parameters. USE FOR: finding the right dotnet new template for a task, inspecting a template's parameters and constraints, understanding what a template produces before creating a project, resolving intent like "web API with auth" to concrete template + parameters. DO NOT USE FOR: actually creating projects…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Template Discovery
This skill helps an agent find, inspect, and select the right `dotnet new` template for a given task using `dotnet new` CLI commands for search, listing, and parameter inspection.
## When to Use
- User asks "What templates are available for X?"
- User describes a project in natural language ("I need a web API with authentication")
- User wants to compare templates or understand parameters before creating a project
- User needs to know what a template produces (files, structure) before committing
## When Not to Use
- User wants to create a project — route to `template-instantiation` skill
- User wants to author or validate a custom template — route to `template-authoring` skill
- User wants a detailed side-by-side comparison of templates — route to `template-comparison` skill
- User wants smart cross-parameter defaults during creation — route to `template-smart-defaults` skill
- User is troubleshooting build issues — route to `dotnet-msbuild` plugin
> **Recommendation requests: answer first, confirm second. Inspection requests: inspect
> first.** For a general "which template?" question, start from the Step 1 mappings so a
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/template-discovery@sha256:53facd7852b53dacThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260831.a7a6170, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 21, 2026 and Aug 31, 2026, about one every 33 days.
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| git:20260831.a7a6170 latest | 2026-08-31 | a7a6170 | 12,262 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260826.14d805d | 2026-08-26 | 14d805d | 10,882 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.b39a041 | 2026-07-20 | b39a041 | 10,054 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260612.74c5850 | 2026-06-12 | 74c5850 | 7,946 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260421.05aeb65 | 2026-04-21 | 05aeb65 | 4,650 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12262 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
dotnet/skills · 5,836 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2q6uk3a2d6mjwuyl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/template-discovery GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53facd7852b53dace635052c46c260159eda130858522671d3691b07b2d49c73
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.