Overview
Microsoft's .NET team publishes portable skills and GitHub Copilot custom agents for .NET work, with a public dashboard of skill performance.
What it does
- Portable .NET and C# skills
- GitHub Copilot custom agents
- Public skill value dashboard
Capability source: Project documentation
Who .NET Agent Skills fits
Developers working in .NET with coding agents.
How you run it
.NET Agent Skills runs on infrastructure you manage.
Documented deployment options: Agent skill, GitHub Copilot.
Before you choose it
Agent files follow GitHub Copilot conventions and are not native Codex agents.
Self-hosting and deployment
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Cloud / hosted offering
- Not recorded
- Docker noted in deployment tags
- Not recorded
- Deployment tags
- Agent skill, GitHub Copilot
- Difficulty
- Easy
.NET Agent Skills questions
- What is .NET Agent Skills?
- The .NET team's skills for coding agents working in .NET and C#. It is listed under Agent skills on PickOpenSource.
- Is .NET Agent Skills open source?
- Yes. Its source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license.
- Can you self-host .NET Agent Skills?
- Yes. Listed deployment options: Agent skill, GitHub Copilot.
- Is .NET Agent Skills free?
- Pricing is not recorded in this catalog. Check the official website for hosted plans and edition limits, and the MIT license for usage conditions. Self-hosting also requires infrastructure and maintenance.
- What are alternatives to .NET Agent Skills?
- Similar agent skills projects include Superpowers, Skills by Matt Pocock, and Ponytail.
- Is .NET Agent Skills actively maintained?
- The latest commit on GitHub was October 12, 2026, and the repository has 5.6k stars.
Related projects
Other approved projects in Agent skills: Superpowers, Skills by Matt Pocock, Ponytail.
Superpowers
A software development method for coding agents, built from composable skills.- Stars
- 297,987
- Updated
- License
- MIT
- Hosting
- Self-hosted
- Category
- Agent Skills
Superpowers
Superpowers gives coding agents a working method: it turns a request into a spec you review, writes an implementation plan, then runs subagent-driven development with review of each task. Its skills trigger automatically once installed.Website GitHubSkills by Matt Pocock
Small, composable engineering skills from Matt Pocock's own agent setup.- Stars
- 286,949
- Updated
- License
- MIT
- Hosting
- Self-hosted
- Category
- Agent Skills
Skills by Matt Pocock
A set of engineering skills Matt Pocock uses daily, written to be small, easy to adapt and composable, and to work with any model instead of owning your whole process.Website GitHubPonytail
A skill that makes coding agents write the smallest change that solves the task.- Stars
- 161,519
- Updated
- License
- MIT
- Hosting
- Self-hosted
- Category
- Agent Skills
Ponytail
Ponytail is one skill prompt that pushes an agent to reuse existing code and native features before adding dependencies, while keeping validation, error handling, security and accessibility. It adds review and repository audit commands.Website GitHubMaintain .NET Agent Skills? Add the README badge
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