resolve-project-references SKILL.md skillA
resolve-project-references 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/resolve-project-references@git:20260624.67e2a47Pins git:20260624.67e2a47 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/resolve-project-references/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260624.67e2a47, committed Jun 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 17, 2026
- Size
- 2,972 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,836
- License
- MIT
Guide for interpreting ResolveProjectReferences time in MSBuild performance summaries. Activate when ResolveProjectReferences appears as the most expensive target and developers are trying to optimize it directly. Explains that the reported time includes wait time for dependent project builds and is misleading. Guides users to focus on task self-time instead. Do not activate for general build performance -- use build-perf-diagnostics instead.
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
# Misleading ResolveProjectReferences Time Prevent misguided optimization of `ResolveProjectReferences` by explaining that its reported time is wall-clock wait time, not CPU work. ## When to Use - `ResolveProjectReferences` appears as the most expensive target in the Target Performance Summary - A developer is trying to optimize `ResolveProjectReferences` directly - Build performance analysis shows a single target consuming 50-80% of total build time ## When Not to Use - General build performance optimization (use `build-perf-diagnostics` instead) - The bottleneck is clearly a different target (e.g., `Csc`, `ResolveAssemblyReference`) - The user has not yet captured a binlog or performance summary ## Inputs | Input | Required | Description | |-------|----------|-------------| | Build log or binlog | Yes | A diagnostic build log or binlog containing the Target Performance Summary | ## Workflow ### Step 1: Confirm the misleading symptom Verify that `ResolveProjectReferences` appears as the top target in the **Target** Performance Summary. This is the misleading metric. ### Step 2: Explain why it is misleading …
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How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/resolve-project-references@sha256:5aa288d6f2204bdfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260624.67e2a47, 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 Mar 17, 2026 and Jun 24, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20260624.67e2a47 latest | 2026-06-24 | 67e2a47 | 2,972 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.1a6e78c | 2026-05-22 | 1a6e78c | 3,017 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260421.05aeb65 | 2026-04-21 | 05aeb65 | 2,806 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260330.51d29a0 | 2026-03-30 | 51d29a0 | 2,793 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260317.14346ff | 2026-03-17 | 14346ff | 2,193 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
dotnet/skills · 5,836 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k54asjvjrwjjy6t5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/resolve-project-references GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5aa288d6f2204bdf7c3519a74596b9c7c501e9e655c1cd0369a3b877fa732fd9
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.