.NET Arcade Skills

Reusable AI skills, plugins, and agents for use in .NET product repos such as dotnet/runtime.

This repository contains shared building blocks for coding agents:

• Skills: reusable, task-focused instruction packs
• Agents: role-based configurations that bundle tool expectations and skill selection

For information about the Agent Skills standard, see agentskills.io.

What's Included

Plugin	Description
dotnet-dnceng	CI/CD analysis, build pipeline workflows for .NET engineering infrastructure.
(more coming soon)	Contribute one! See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Installation

Copilot CLI / Claude Code

1. Launch Copilot CLI or Claude Code
2. Add the marketplace:

   /plugin marketplace add dotnet/arcade-skills
   

3. Install a plugin:

   /plugin install <plugin>@dotnet-arcade-skills
   

4. Restart to load the new plugins
5. View available skills:

   /skills
   

VS Code / VS Code Insiders (Preview)

// settings.json
{
  "chat.plugins.enabled": true,
  "chat.plugins.marketplaces": ["dotnet/arcade-skills"]
}

Once configured, type /plugins in Copilot Chat to browse and install plugins from the marketplace.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines and how to add a new plugin.

License

See LICENSE for details.