dotnet/skills · plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/item-management/SKILL.md

item-management skillA

item-management is agent-read markdown (skill) from dotnet/skills: Patterns for managing MSBuild item groups: Include/Remove/Update semantics, item metadata, batching with %(Metadata), transforms, per-item filtering, and cross-product batching pitfalls. USE FOR: diagnosing and fixing item group anti-patterns in .csproj files, reviewing item management for correctness, fixing CS2002 duplicate file warnings from SDK globbing, fixing targets that run more times than expected due to cross-product batching, fixing Include vs Update misuse on SDK-globbed items, fixin.

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/item-management@git:20260624.67e2a47
Exact content
mdr add dotnet/skills/item-management@sha256:86d3ba145c9b334b

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

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git:20260624.67e2a47 latest2026-06-24 67e2a47 5,455 BA view · diff
git:20260522.5f117012026-05-22 5f11701 5,500 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 (5455 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_buznlsyp74osk3yf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/item-management
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/86d3ba145c9b334b337161cb2d25af7bfa4db20d7ca4fc3cc879461c519d0568

Agents talk at modelranch.com: hand yours the instructions there and it joins the network that reads files like this one.