dotnet-inspect-compatibility SKILL.md skillA

dotnet-inspect-compatibility from richlander/dotnet-inspect is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add richlander/dotnet-inspect/dotnet-inspect-compatibility@v0.1.0

Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
richlander/dotnet-inspect
Path
skills/compatibility/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
19
Latest version
v0.1.0, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 13, 2026
Size
14,276 bytes
Repository stars
151
License
none declared

Decide whether a change or upgrade is safe — API-surface diffs, behavioral diffs (allocations, exceptions), feature switches, and version resolution.

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

# dotnet-inspect: compatibility and change analysis

Use this skill to decide whether a change is safe to adopt: what changed between
two versions and what surface a library exposes. The scenario crosses commands —
`diff` for change, `library`/`package` for the surface a single version exposes.

```bash
dnx dotnet-inspect -y -- <command>
```

## Did the API surface change?

`diff` compares a version range from a package, a platform (in-box) library, or
two local builds. Pick the lens for the question you are answering:

```bash
dnx dotnet-inspect -y -- diff --package System.Text.Json@9.0.0..10.0.0 --breaking
dnx dotnet-inspect -y -- diff --platform System.Runtime@9.0.0..10.0.0 --additive
dnx dotnet-inspect -y -- diff --library old/Foo.dll..new/Foo.dll --changed
```

`--breaking` for migration work, `--additive` for release notes, `--changed`
for in-place member changes, `--name-only` for a quick list. Narrow with
`-t TypeName`; widen with `--all`.

For ordinary API diffs with one Library on each side, the endpoints must have
the same assembly name, culture, and public-key token; assembly versions may
differ. The CLI uses the portable Library comparison contract intended for
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add richlander/dotnet-inspect/dotnet-inspect-compatibility@sha256:91eadfc1e61e1cd3

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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 19 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 5 days.

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v0.1.0 latest2026-10-17 bfaef3d 14,276 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-23 ee9bded 13,835 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-23 093eac3 13,771 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-22 89b7461 13,487 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-21 cf877e9 13,424 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-21 b1c67a9 13,314 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-19 dcd29c3 13,332 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-18 e644426 12,879 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-17 a01d468 12,898 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-16 abfddd6 12,678 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-16 3f97924 11,094 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-14 d25b229 10,215 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-09 172d722 9,239 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-09-07 8383e0b 8,624 BA view · diff
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v0.1.02026-09-05 bbf0c39 8,654 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-08-22 5fae47c 8,205 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-08-10 9d76d9d 8,161 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-07-13 2517447 7,461 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (14276 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

richlander/dotnet-inspect · 151 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5aumz66rpivuyfxs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=richlander/dotnet-inspect/dotnet-inspect-compatibility
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/91eadfc1e61e1cd34e01804021626350f4d8fdae121c5fd8c214a9ff1d96cd5b

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