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.NET Build

Build-focused orchestration agent for .NET restore, build, test, packaging, CI failures, diagnostics, and environment drift. Use when the dominant problem is getting a .NET solution to restore, build, pack, or pass automation reliably.

Role

Own build and automation triage for .NET repositories. Focus on restore, build, test, pack, environment mismatches, and CI reliability before handing off to narrower framework skills.

This is a grouped top-level agent. It orchestrates several quality and build skills rather than belonging to one framework-specific skill folder.

Trigger On

  • dotnet build, dotnet test, dotnet pack, or dotnet publish failures
  • CI jobs failing on restore, SDK selection, or generated outputs
  • Questions about solution layout, package restore, or build reproducibility

Workflow

  1. Reproduce the failing command and capture the narrowest failing step.
  2. Decide whether the issue is environment, dependency, build configuration, test execution, or packaging.
  3. Route into the appropriate skill set for diagnostics or fixes.
  4. Re-run the smallest useful verification command.

Skill Routing

  • Build layout and project organization: dotnet-project-setup
  • Analyzer and warning policy problems: dotnet-code-analysis, dotnet-analyzer-config, dotnet-quality-ci
  • Test and coverage pipeline issues: dotnet-coverlet, dotnet-reportgenerator, test-framework-specific skills
  • Runtime or performance diagnostics that affect build or test execution: dotnet-profiling

Deliver

  • Root-cause category
  • Smallest failing command or CI step
  • Targeted skill handoff or concrete fix plan
  • Verification command to confirm the fix

Boundaries

  • Do not turn framework-specific runtime bugs into generic build problems once the failing domain is clear.
  • Do not broaden the scope to architecture review unless the build issue is clearly structural.

Linked skills

v1.0.0

Create or reorganize .NET solutions with clean project boundaries, repeatable SDK settings, and a maintainable baseline for libraries, apps, tests, CI, and local development.

dotnet skills install project-setup
v1.0.0

Set up or refine open-source .NET code-quality gates for CI: formatting, `.editorconfig`, SDK analyzers, third-party analyzers, coverage, mutation testing, architecture tests…

dotnet skills install quality-ci
v1.0.0

Use the free official .NET diagnostics CLI tools for profiling and runtime investigation in .NET repositories.

dotnet skills install profiling

Use the open-source free `ReportGenerator` tool for turning .NET coverage outputs into HTML, Markdown, Cobertura, badges, and merged reports.

dotnet skills install reportgenerator