msbuild SKILL.md skillA
msbuild 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/msbuild@git:20261001.973cffbPins git:20261001.973cffb 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/skills/msbuild/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261001.973cffb, committed Oct 1, 2026
- Size
- 8,992 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,788
- License
- MIT
Use only for MSBuild failure investigation, build-performance analysis, or review of existing build XML/extension contracts. A plan to convert a working legacy/non-SDK project to SDK style or migrate packages.config is a project-system migration, NOT a build-file review: do not activate, even to check scope. Framework/API upgrades are also excluded. Activate for advisory Import/Exists hook and NuGet packed-import questions even without a checkout or failed build; .csproj/.fsproj/.vbproj/.props/.
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 troubleshooting This is the entry skill. Choose **troubleshooting**, **performance**, or **authoring review**, then read only the relevant local references. The references retain the content and identities of the original MSBuild skills, with correctness fixes; they are not separate skills to activate. ## Start with the task and evidence For tasks that need a checkout, discover the relevant project/solution, shared build files, SDK selection, and repository build instructions in the current workspace. Preserve the original command, working directory, configuration, target framework, runtime identifier, global properties, and target. Ask only for consequential information that cannot be discovered. An existing `.binlog` can be the only available artifact. Analyze it before requesting a new build; paths inside it do not prove a checkout exists locally. For a self-contained static review or advisory question, use the supplied XML and relevant references; do not require a checkout, restore, build, or binlog. For a mixed request, fix correctness before measuring successful builds, and keep authoring review …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/msbuild@sha256:671a9b2c77be4a67The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.973cffb, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 1, 2026.
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 (8992 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 · 5,788 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jj4aabm2rqtbusg2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/msbuild GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/671a9b2c77be4a6758dba4b013a50a29b2b3c5c6c77a10c2c81c11042f785c55
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.