eliminate-redundant-restores SKILL.md skillA
eliminate-redundant-restores 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/eliminate-redundant-restores@git:20261016.6364668Pins git:20261016.6364668 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-msbuild/skills/eliminate-redundant-restores/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261016.6364668, committed Oct 16, 2026
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- 10,197 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,788
- License
- MIT
Remove repeated NuGet restores from multi-step .NET builds safely. USE FOR: build/test/publish steps that each restore, Directory.Build.rsp with -restore, safe restore suppression, NETSDK1004/NETSDK1047 after --no-restore. DO NOT USE FOR: slow first restore, only one restore, version or lock errors, unranked build slowness (use build-perf-baseline).
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
# Eliminate Redundant Restores A no-op restore still evaluates every project and checks restore state, so each extra restore in a multi-step build costs seconds to tens of seconds in a large repo. The cure is easy to get wrong: `--no-restore` on a step that no earlier restore actually covered turns a slow build into a failed one. This skill finds which invocations restore, proves which are already covered, and changes only those. ## When to Use - A pipeline or script runs several `dotnet`/`msbuild` steps and the log shows restore output in more than one of them - A restore step exists, yet later steps still print `Determining projects to restore...` - A repository `Directory.Build.rsp` or the active MSBuild installation's `MSBuild.rsp` contains `-restore` - Someone asks where `--no-restore` or `-restore:false` can safely be added - `NETSDK1004` or `NETSDK1047` appeared after `--no-restore` was added ## When Not to Use - The first restore is slow (feed latency, missing package cache): that is caching, not redundancy - There is only one restore across all invocations: nothing to deduplicate - Restore errors about versions, lock files or auditing: fix the restore itself …
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How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/eliminate-redundant-restores@sha256:178c6b44ae9d5a4bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.6364668, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 16, 2026.
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Source
dotnet/skills · 5,788 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7735jkgnlswibyyt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/eliminate-redundant-restores GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/178c6b44ae9d5a4b5aedefa73b1366be7d389e07a3c855e2bdceeb54cc435e74
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