dotnet/skills · plugins/dotnet-template-engine/skills/template-discovery/SKILL.md

template-discovery skillA

template-discovery is agent-read markdown (skill) from dotnet/skills: 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 (use template-instantiatio.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add dotnet/skills/template-discovery@git:20260831.a7a6170
Exact content
mdr add dotnet/skills/template-discovery@sha256:53facd7852b53dac

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260831.a7a6170 latest2026-08-31 a7a6170 12,262 BA view · diff
git:20260826.14d805d2026-08-26 14d805d 10,882 BA view · diff
git:20260720.b39a0412026-07-20 b39a041 10,054 BA view · diff
git:20260612.74c58502026-06-12 74c5850 7,946 BA view · diff
git:20260421.05aeb652026-04-21 05aeb65 4,650 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • 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

GitHub

dotnet/skills · 5,437 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · 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

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