eliminate-redundant-restores SKILL.md skillA
eliminate-redundant-restores from cratis/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cratis/ai/eliminate-redundant-restores@git:20261102.97944e7Pins git:20261102.97944e7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cratis/ai
- Path
.cratis/ai/skills/eliminate-redundant-restores/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261102.97944e7, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 22, 2026
- Size
- 10,657 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when multiple .NET build steps repeat NuGet restore or suppressing restore causes NETSDK1004 or NETSDK1047. Not for a slow first restore, version conflicts, lock-file errors or general build slowness.
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
<!-- Modified by Cratis from dotnet's original (MIT): frontmatter, applicability, navigation and the changes listed in NOTICE. Upstream: https://github.com/dotnet/skills (plugins/dotnet-msbuild/skills/eliminate-redundant-restores/SKILL.md; see NOTICE) --> # Eliminate Redundant Restores Cratis rules in `.cratis/ai/rules/` (including `csharp.md`, `specs.csharp.md`, and `orleans.md`) and the `cratis-*` skills win where they differ. 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` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cratis/ai/eliminate-redundant-restores@sha256:f47adce0522a2118The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.97944e7, 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 4 versions of this file, between Oct 22, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261102.97944e7 latest | 2026-11-02 | 97944e7 | 10,657 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.fc845e3 | 2026-10-26 | fc845e3 | 10,448 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.9c566fc | 2026-10-23 | 9c566fc | 10,679 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261022.a3fbff2 | 2026-10-22 | a3fbff2 | 10,597 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 (10657 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
cratis/ai · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d2vbphwbytaueco4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cratis/ai/eliminate-redundant-restores GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f47adce0522a211849b494edfb5c4bc226d5a93de34006f77e9021a4e806acab
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