item-management SKILL.md skillA
item-management 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/item-management@git:20260930.f3cad1ePins git:20260930.f3cad1e 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/item-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260930.f3cad1e, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 5,418 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,836
- License
- MIT
Own concrete MSBuild ItemGroup and item-expression questions. USE FOR: Include, Remove, Update, item identity and metadata, transforms, filtering, batching, duplicate or overlapping items, and reviews that verify whether those operations are correct. Generated items stay in scope when the central defect is item identity, metadata, batching, duplicate declarations, or glob/Remove/Update semantics. For a generated artifact missing from compilation or output, wrong target timing/path, or…
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
# MSBuild Item Management Patterns
Canonical patterns for working with item groups, from `Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets`.
## Include / Remove / Update — Three Operations
| Operation | Purpose | When to use |
|---|---|---|
| `Include` | Add new items to the group | Creating items with identity + metadata |
| `Remove` | Remove items matching a pattern | Excluding files or clearing a group |
| `Update` | Modify metadata on existing items | Adding/changing metadata without re-adding |
### Include — Add Items
```xml
<ItemGroup>
<Compile Include="Generated\*.cs">
<AutoGen>true</AutoGen>
</Compile>
</ItemGroup>
```
### Remove — Subtract Items
```xml
<ItemGroup>
<!-- Remove specific items -->
<Reference Remove="$(AdditionalExplicitAssemblyReferences)" />
<!-- Set subtraction: prior minus current -->
<_CleanOrphanFileWrites Include="@(_CleanPriorFileWrites)"
Exclude="@(_CleanCurrentFileWrites)" />
<!-- Clear an entire group -->
<_Temporary Remove="@(_Temporary)" />
</ItemGroup>
```
### Update — Modify Existing Items
```xml
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Update="@(EmbeddedResource)"
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/item-management@sha256:dacc4c4c05d75552The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.f3cad1e, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260930.f3cad1e latest | 2026-09-30 | f3cad1e | 5,418 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.2b5f5a4 | 2026-09-30 | 2b5f5a4 | 5,145 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.ac46442 | 2026-09-30 | ac46442 | 5,071 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260624.67e2a47 | 2026-06-24 | 67e2a47 | 5,455 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.5f11701 | 2026-05-22 | 5f11701 | 5,500 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5418 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
dotnet/skills · 5,836 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · 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/dacc4c4c05d7555224b7212411e6151f4a9beca460f2b02c05b63dfc073f8d2e
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.