dotnet-maui-doctor SKILL.md skillA

dotnet-maui-doctor from dotnet/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dotnet/skills/dotnet-maui-doctor@git:20260421.05aeb65

Pins 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-maui/skills/dotnet-maui-doctor/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260421.05aeb65, committed Apr 21, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 9, 2026
Size
9,574 bytes
Repository stars
5,836
License
MIT

Diagnoses and fixes .NET MAUI development environment issues. Validates .NET SDK, workloads, Java JDK, Android SDK, Xcode, and Windows SDK. All version requirements discovered dynamically from NuGet WorkloadDependencies.json — never hardcoded. Use when: setting up MAUI development, build errors mentioning SDK/workload/JDK/Android, "Android SDK not found", "Java version" errors, "Xcode not found", environment verification after updates, or any MAUI toolchain issues. Do not use for: non-MAUI…

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

# .NET MAUI Doctor

Validate and fix .NET MAUI development environments. All version requirements are discovered dynamically from NuGet APIs — never hardcode versions.

## When to Use

- Setting up a new .NET MAUI development environment
- Build errors mentioning missing SDKs, workloads, JDK, or Android components
- Errors like "Android SDK not found", "Java version", or "Xcode not found"
- Verifying environment health after SDK or OS updates

## When Not to Use

- Non-MAUI .NET projects (use standard .NET SDK troubleshooting instead)
- Xamarin.Forms apps (different toolchain and workload requirements)
- Runtime app crashes unrelated to environment setup
- App store publishing or signing issues
- IDE-specific issues (Visual Studio or VS Code configuration)

## Important: .NET Version Currency

Your training data may be outdated regarding .NET versions. .NET ships new major releases annually (November). Always check the releases-index.json (Task 2) to discover the **latest active major release** — do not assume your training data reflects the current version. For example, if you know about .NET 9.0 but the releases index shows .NET 10.0 as active, use .NET 10.0.

## Inputs
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dotnet/skills/dotnet-maui-doctor@sha256:ba8262439bdbc8d9

The 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_zpbncbr5zzabxplh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_zpbncbr5zzabxplh)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 9, 2026 and Apr 21, 2026, about one every 43 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260421.05aeb65 latest2026-04-21 05aeb65 9,574 BA view · diff
git:20260309.ebe71e22026-03-09 ebe71e2 9,561 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9574 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

GitHub

dotnet/skills · 5,836 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zpbncbr5zzabxplh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/dotnet-maui-doctor
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ba8262439bdbc8d980f3001fa87f874aab9cd707e363484c1ebd3e4d31ae9cda

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