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

template-instantiation skillA

template-instantiation is agent-read markdown (skill) from dotnet/skills: Creates .NET projects from templates with validated parameters, smart defaults, Central Package Management adaptation, and latest NuGet version resolution. USE FOR: creating new dotnet projects, scaffolding solutions with multiple projects, installing or uninstalling template packages, creating projects that respect Directory.Packages.props (CPM), composing multi-project solutions (API + tests + library), getting latest NuGet package versions in newly created projects. DO NOT USE FOR: finding te.

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-instantiation@git:20260831.a7a6170
Exact content
mdr add dotnet/skills/template-instantiation@sha256:106718dba7660f37

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 11,339 BA view · diff
git:20260720.b39a0412026-07-20 b39a041 9,194 BA view · diff
git:20260612.74c58502026-06-12 74c5850 7,466 BA view · diff
git:20260421.05aeb652026-04-21 05aeb65 6,275 BA view · diff
git:20260401.59d44852026-04-01 59d4485 6,262 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 (11339 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_37bpvfomlp5g54du
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/template-instantiation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/106718dba7660f37473677baa8af3cb16527cca5a2b0d295171ab4735eaf9897

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