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Build .NET AI agents, harnesses, and multi-agent workflows with Microsoft Agent Framework using the right agent type, sessions, tools, workflows, hosting protocols, and enterprise guardrails. USE FOR: building or reviewing .NET code that uses Microsoft.Agents.*, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, AIAgent, HarnessAgent, AgentSession, or Agent Framework hosting packages; choosing agent, harness, workflow, and hosting shapes. DO NOT USE FOR: unrelated stacks; generic tasks that do not need this specific guidance. INVOKES: inspect the repository context, edit targeted files, and run relevant build, test, li
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 490 stars are split between them (about 49 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 65/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 147b3ba7bdc3, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.references/official-docs/agents/skills.md:421
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