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Microsoft published dotnet/skills — an official repository of skills that teach AI coding agents how to work with .NET and C#. The distinguishing claim: these come from the team that ships the platform, using the same workflows they run with first-party engineering teams.

## What’s in it

Skills span the .NET surface: data access and Entity Framework, MSBuild and build diagnostics (failure analysis, performance, code quality, modernization), and a dedicated AI/ML track covering LLM integration, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, MCP, and classic ML with ML.NET. Each skill is a portable instruction file that works across GitHub Copilot CLI, Visual Studio, VS Code, Claude Code, and other agents supporting the spec.

## Why it matters

Coding agents are strong on JavaScript and Python, weaker on .NET — less training data, more enterprise-specific patterns. Official first-party skills close that gap with curated, maintained guidance instead of whatever the model happened to absorb from Stack Overflow. It’s also a signal: platform owners are now shipping agent skills as a first-class deliverable, the same way they ship SDKs and docs.