microbenchmarking SKILL.md skillA
microbenchmarking 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/microbenchmarking@git:20260421.05aeb65Pins git:20260421.05aeb65 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-diag/skills/microbenchmarking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260421.05aeb65, committed Apr 21, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 7, 2026
- Size
- 13,264 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,788
- License
- MIT
Activate this skill when BenchmarkDotNet (BDN) is involved in the task — creating, running, configuring, or reviewing BDN benchmarks. Also activate when microbenchmarking .NET code would be useful and BenchmarkDotNet is the likely tool. Consider activating when answering a .NET performance question requires measurement and BenchmarkDotNet may be needed. Covers microbenchmark design, BDN configuration and project setup, how to run BDN microbenchmarks efficiently and effectively, and using BDN…
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
# Benchmark Authoring Guidelines BenchmarkDotNet (BDN) is a .NET library for writing and running microbenchmarks. Throughout this skill, "BDN" refers to BenchmarkDotNet. > **Note:** Evaluations of LLMs writing BenchmarkDotNet benchmarks have revealed common failure patterns caused by outdated assumptions about BDN's behavior — particularly around runtime comparison, job configuration, and execution defaults that have changed in recent versions. The reference files in this skill contain verified, current information. **You MUST read the reference files relevant to the task before writing any code** — your training data likely contains outdated or incorrect BDN patterns. ## Key concepts - **Job** — describes how to run a benchmark: runtime, iteration counts, launch count, run strategy, and environment settings. Multiple jobs can be configured to run the same benchmarks under different conditions. - **Benchmark case** — one method × one parameter combination × one job. The atomic unit BDN measures. - **Operation** — the logical unit of work being measured. All BDN output columns (Mean, Error, etc.) report time per operation. …
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How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/microbenchmarking@sha256:64dab692a441a8afThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260421.05aeb65, 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 7, 2026 and Apr 21, 2026, about one every 45 days.
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| git:20260421.05aeb65 latest | 2026-04-21 | 05aeb65 | 13,264 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260307.042a9d2 | 2026-03-07 | 042a9d2 | 13,251 B | A | view |
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Source
dotnet/skills · 5,788 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ycsojhijvdcdo5bv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/microbenchmarking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/64dab692a441a8af87b40cda1f3c2c9e5046551446fdea55d2801eaabb34785e
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