Tools tagged with "Official"

Guide for organizing MSBuild infrastructure with Directory.Build.props, Directory.Build.targets, Directory.Packages.props, and Directory.Build.rsp. USE FOR: str

Reference data for .NET test framework detection patterns, assertion APIs, skip annotations, setup/teardown methods, and common test smell indicators across MST

Standard recovery patterns for all squad agents. When something fails, adapt — don't just report the failure.

Guide for diagnosing and improving MSBuild project evaluation performance. USE FOR: builds slow before any compilation starts, high evaluation time in binlog an

Guide for MSBuild extensibility: CustomBefore/CustomAfter hooks, wildcard imports with alphabetic ordering, import gating with control properties, NuGet package

Reference data for test filter syntax across all platform and framework combinations: VSTest --filter expressions, MTP filters for MSTest/NUnit/xUnit v3/TUnit,

Generate wrapper interfaces and DI registration for hard-to-test static dependencies in C. Produces IFileSystem, IEnvironmentProvider, IConsole, IProcessRunner

Retrieves and groups GitHub code scanning alerts by rule and severity using the gh CLI

Squad branching model: dev-first workflow with insiders preview channel

Manage GitLab merge requests and pipelines with a Python CLI

Grades a specified set of test methods individually and produces a concise table mapping each test (fully-qualified name) to a letter grade (A–F), a score band,

Fix MSBuild targets that generate files during the build but those files are missing from compilation or output. USE FOR: generated source files not compiling (

Guide for optimizing MSBuild incremental builds. USE FOR: builds slower than expected on subsequent runs, 'nothing changed but it rebuilds anyway', diagnosing w

Patterns for managing MSBuild item groups: Include/Remove/Update semantics, item metadata, batching with %(Metadata), transforms, per-item filtering, and cross-

Jira issue workflows for search, issue updates, transitions, comments, and field discovery via the Jira REST API. Use when you need to search with JQL, inspect

Migrate MSTest v1 or v2 test project to MSTest v3. Use when user says "upgrade MSTest", "upgrade to MSTest v3", "migrate to MSTest v3", "update test framework",

Fix build errors and breaking changes after upgrading MSTest from v3 to v4, or plan a complete MSTest v3-to-v4 migration. Use when user says "upgrade to MSTest

Mechanically replace static dependency call sites with wrapper or built-in abstraction calls across a bounded scope (file, project, or namespace). Performs code

Migrates .NET test projects from VSTest to Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP). Use when user asks to "migrate to MTP", "switch from VSTest", "enable Microsoft.Tes

Migrate .NET test projects from xUnit.net (v2 or v3) to MSTest v4. USE FOR: convert/migrate xUnit tests to MSTest, replace xunit/xunit.v3 packages, port [Fact]/

Migrates .NET test projects from xUnit.net v2 to xUnit.net v3. USE FOR: upgrading xunit to xunit.v3. DO NOT USE FOR: migrating between test frameworks (MSTest/N

Catalog of MSBuild anti-patterns with detection rules and fix recipes. USE FOR: reviewing, auditing, or cleaning up .csproj, .vbproj, .fsproj, .props, .targets,

Guide for modernizing and migrating MSBuild project files to SDK-style format. USE FOR: converting legacy .csproj/.vbproj with verbose XML to SDK-style, migrati

Guide for using MSBuild Server to improve CLI build performance. Activate when developers report slow incremental builds from the command line, or when CLI buil

Suggests using Microsoft Testing Platform (MTP) hot reload to iterate fixes on failing tests without rebuilding. Use when user says "hot reload tests", "iterate

This SKILL.md has no YAML frontmatter at all. It's just plain markdown.

WORKFLOW SKILL - Process PDF files including text extraction, rotation, and merging. USE FOR: "extract PDF text", "rotate PDF", "merge PDFs", "split PDF pages",

Process PDF files including text extraction, rotation, and merging. USE FOR: "extract PDF text", "rotate PDF", "merge PDFs", "split PDF pages", "convert PDF to

Reference data for detecting the test platform (VSTest vs Microsoft.Testing.Platform) and test framework (MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, TUnit) from project files. DO NO

Systematic activities that need to be performed after a release is done.

Multi-dimensional review of a PR or feature branch in the microsoft/winappcli repo. Activate when a contributor asks to "review my PR", "review my changes", "ve

Prepare a release for the Feature Management .NET SDK. Use when user mentions release preparation, version bump, creating merge PRs, preview release, or stable

PROFILE TEST - A skill for testing the profile command. USE FOR: testing profile analysis, verifying structural metrics. DO NOT USE FOR: production use.

MSBuild property definition patterns: conditional defaults, composition/concatenation, path normalization, trailing slash handling, TFM detection helpers, and p

Guide for interpreting ResolveProjectReferences time in MSBuild performance summaries. Activate when ResolveProjectReferences appears as the most expensive targ

Reviewer rejection workflow and strict lockout semantics